While globalization seems to hold changes never before experienced, history suggests the world economy of a few centuries ago was perhaps more internationalized than the global economy of today. Enormous movements of tobacco, cotton, sugar and enslaved populations fuelled a new accumulation of international wealth… leading to the colonization of vast areas around the globe. As a descendant of indentured servants who migrated from South Asia to the Caribbean during a prior era of globalization (then to Canada in the subsequent generation), I draw parallels in cyclical change in attempt to provoke thought about the globalized world we are creating today.