Hey bloggers, today i'll be talking about a little thing called Globalization (btw the title is half chinese). Globalization is the theory that the development of social, cultural, and economic relationships on a world scale has created a single social order. Globalization comes with many different pros and cons. Some people believe that globaliztion is the growing mdominance of western forms of political, economic,and cultural life, and the proliferation of new information technologies.
To some people, globalization means the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade, free flow of capital, and the "tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets."
The general complaint about globalization is that it has made the rich richer while making the poor/broke poorer. It is wonderful for investors, but hell on workers.Multinational corporations are accused of social injustice, unfair working conditions, including slave labor wages and poor living and working conditions, as well as a lack of concern for the environment, mismanagement of natural resources, and ecological damage. So basically globalization makes it easier for rich companies to act with less accountability. They also claim that countries’ individual cultures are becoming overpowered by Americanization.
However Globalization isn't all bad, it has the potential to solve problems like unemployment and poverty. Now there is a worldwide market for companies and consumers to access products from different countries. There is cultural intermingling. Each country is learning more about other cultures, which can also be used as an argument to the belief that globvalization is destroying individual cultures
Awesome Blog Claude! :)
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ReplyDeleteInteresting blog especially the title. i didn't know you understand chinese
ReplyDeleteGlobalization, at least in the debate world, is the process of the United States to maintain its hegemonic status. United States many times is seen as the nosey police of the world. The US globalization initiative is created much hatred towards American ideals. Not only does the United States step into other countries and try to influence their culture, they try to change the function of their government. Well the Great United States is truly not so great. The hypocritical ways of the United States causes tension in the world. For example, during the Cold War the United States tried to promote democracy in these new third world countries by instituting the Monroe and Truman Doctrine. In the status quo the United States the government accuses many non-citizens of being terrorists, but they do not receive the same due process as me. Many innocent people are locked away in facilities like Guantanamo Bay for merely being threats. The perfect United States then runs along to middle eastern countries like Egypt to "sway" their political structure into democracy. Not only are other countries, confused on why they should follow the tenets of democracy while this very country fails to do so in some occasions, but they see the United States in this hypocritical light. So yes American globalization can be bad in some respects.
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