People sometimes refer to the world as a global village when they want to emphasize that all the different parts of the world form one community linked together by electronic communications, especially the internet.
Now that we are all part of the global village, everyone becomes a neighbour.
global village in British English
noun
the whole world considered as being closely connected by modern telecommunications and as being interdependent economically, socially, and politically
Word origin
C20: coined by Marshall McLuhan
global village in American English
the world regarded as having become a single community by the effects of mass media, rapid travel, etc.
Examples of 'global village' in a sentence
global village
This trend seems counterintuitive, given all the talk about our world being a global village.