Transactional Analyst

I was going to keep this follow on article for the next edition of the TA Times because of current world conflicts but have decided to include it here due to the articles of Di Montague and Kate Meredith. The articles, Racist or Racish parts 1 & 2 (TA Times- November 2002, & January 2003) examines the effects that globalization has on the psychology of very large numbers of people. In this study of a type of meta-social psychology one finds that there has been other versions of globalization perviously in history of human civilisation. These are usually referred to as empires. EMPIRES When I first began looking into this topic I was surprised at the number of empires there had been over the history of mankind. Like ants, it seems humans are constantly reorganising themselves. The Byzantine empire, Ottoman empire, Mongol empire, Fulani empire and of course an empire that the readership of the TA Times is very familiar with. Those readers fro