Geography of Global Processes Student’s Name: Professor’s Name: Course Details: Date Submitted: Abstract Global processes, whether direct or indirect, affect each nation in the world. As such, their effects may be either negative or positive depending on many factors distinct in each country or region. Globalization is one such global process, which in the recent past, has been the subject of many studies. Previously, a particular neighborhood (Thornhill, Ontario, in Canada) was studied, its geographical position defined, together with some of the influences of globalization, that have since penetrated it. Some of the fields that were influenced heavily by globalization in Thornhill were: Culture, language, education and gender. Most of the influences had in one way or the other, been facilitated more by external factors such as immigration and the world economic crisis. In this paper, the influence of globalization on culture will be singled out, as one of the areas of research, which will in effect show how globalization has affected Thornhill, and the whole Toronto region. Why is culture so important in articulating the influence of globalization? What factors actually influence its occurrence? According to Lynton (2007),