Answer to Question #286796 in History for lui

Question

Explain ONE global process after 1980 that contributed to historians' increased interest in studying the type of cross-cultural interactions described in the passage.

Answer 1

One worldwide process after 1980 that contributed to historians increased interest in studying the type of cross-cultural interactions is globalization.

Globalization is a nonstop process of cultural, technological and communicational interconnection at the international level, which has begun to take place since the 1980s, with the massification of communication media and technologies such as the internet and the massification of aviation.

These developments allowed a greater connection between different nations until then distant, making the world achieve a technological connection that allows communications between extremely distant regions in a matter of seconds, and allowing greater mobility at a global level, uniting cultures and traditions.