Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it's crucial to communication.

50 years ago communication was isolated to you and your city, state and country.  Whatever was going on in some obscure African nation was not in your daily newspaper or on your local television station.  Fast forward 50 years to 2011, and your communication flow is drastically different.

Now when individuals pick up their daily newspaper the headlines range from local puff pieces to national stories.  Power up your laptop or turn on your television and you will have the same phenomenon lighting up your screen.  Why does this matter?  One word: Globalization.  Because of globalization everything has become interconnected.

This new level of interconnectedness forces the flow of information to become universal not local. For those who don't understand this process, they instantly shut themselves off from anything outside of their "closed off world."  

What we as a society must understand is that everything is interdependent and interconnected.  Unfortunately because of globalizations all issues anywhere in the world impact everyone to some degree.  We must communicate all issues to everyone, and understand that we cannot communicate from an isolated position.  We, as interconnected individuals, must be curious of the surrounding world and the issues impacting it.