...Pro Globalist V/S Anti Globalist People around the globe are more connected to each other than ever before. Information and money flow more quickly than ever. Goods and services produced in one part of the world are increasingly available in all parts of the world. International travel is more frequent and international communication is commonplace. Globalization is a fact of economic life and it has now become a very controversial topic and the growing number of various economic and social issues all around the world has focused more attention on the basic assumption of globalization and its effect. Globalization may be defined as the process of international integration arising from the interchange of world views, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. It describes the interplay across cultures of macro-social forces. These forces include religion, politics, and economics. Globalization is believed to leave the poor behind. Without capital, you cannot gain from integration. And the poor have next to no capital. Trade reforms do create both winners and losers and it might not always be politically feasible for the former to compensate the latter. If the losers from trade turn out to be the poor, then trade reduces social welfare, where all the weight is put on the welfare of the poorest. Exactly the opposite would be the case if trade reduces poverty and unemployment and makes low-skilled workers better off. Importantly, adverse distributional consequences...
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...Education is one of the most essential tools that allows for understanding, creation, and comfort. Its point in not to allow students to just read and understand the material, but to be able to immersed it in real world instances. To become a global citizen, one must go forth expanding the minds of all through knowledge in a relationship of compassion with others to better the livelihood of the whole populous. I was fortunate enough to glimpse this recognition of what it meant to be a global citizen when I partook in the Loyola Project, an organization formed to educate and help young children with schoolwork and study skills. Loyola Project brings forth sophomore high schoolers from Brophy College Preparatory and makes them involved in the tutoring of students from kindergarten to fifth grade in different schools around Phoenix on a weekly basis. My adventure into the experience of Loyola Project arose in the second semester of my sophomore year as clumps of sophomore students separated into groups which were assigned to a certain elementary school. I was placed in a group with seven other students along with two teachers who were designated to tutor at St. Gregory’s Catholic School, my previous middle school. After being told to tutor every Tuesday and Thursday for a whole semester, our group spent the next few weeks partnering up with children and helping them in their academic struggles of comprehension. I was partnered up with two forth graders named Malakai and Christopher...
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...Ma. Francesca S. Ronario Entry to United Nations Academic Impact Student Essay Contest “No matter how complex global challenges may seem, we must remember that it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. It is therefore impossible that they are beyond our power as human beings to resolve. Returning to our humanity, reforming and opening up the inner capacities of our lives, can enable reform and empowerment on a global scale.” Daisaku Ikeda wrote this quote as words of wisdom and looking into the quote marks the challenge and the truth of global citizenship. Our world is consisting of 150 countries and covers diversity of nationalities. Languages, culture and tradition are the factors that prove that our world, the Earth, is diverse in the line of people. I do believe that the problem of a certain country is a problem of the world and the success of a certain country is the success of the world. What the world needs is unity, equality, solidarity, prosperity and getting people to start carrying out, acting and performing like Global Citizens is the only way to accomplish this. Executing our roles is what the world needs and what the humanity needs also. We have a duty to protect each other as humans. We have a duty to take charge of our life and other people’s lives despite diversity in race, language, nationality and citizenship. Citizenship is about the state of being vested with the rights, privileges, freedom and duties of a citizen. It is a state...
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...WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A “GLOBAL CITIZEN” We live in a “global” world now. Corporate globalization is prevalent nearly everywhere. Travel is more common than ever before. We get news in our homes about any place in the world seconds after it happens. The internet allows us to connect with people all over the world. It allows us to stay in touch with people as we move all over the world as well. We even have an international language! English is spoken (by at least some portions of the population) nearly everywhere you go. Everyone has the potential of being a Global Citizen if they wish to but it takes courage, commitment, and a sense of humor to become one. Global citizenship might sound like a vague concept for academics but in fact it’s a very practical way of looking at the world which anyone, if given the opportunity, can relate to. In the context of globalization, thinking and acting as a global citizen is immensely important and can bring real benefits. To have a full insight of what it means to be a “global citizen”, one needs to understand what it means to be a citizen. A citizen is a native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection (distinguished from alien). It also refers to a person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation. According to some accounts, citizenship is motivated by local interests (love of family, communal fairness,...
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...The Nicaraguan Canal: Globalism in (In)Action The proposed Nicaraguan Grand Interoceanic Canal is three times as long and twice as deep as the Panama Canal (Watts, 2015). The increased size would allow the Nicaraguan Grand Canal to accommodate shipping vessels significantly larger than what the Panama Canal can currently fit, and was a central theme of President Daniel Ortega’s victorious 2013 reelection campaign. The massive project is funded by Chinese billionaire Wang Jing, and controversy surrounding the proposal has prompted a number of stakeholders on either side to speak out. Proponents of the project view the canal as a mechanism to bolster the country’s economy through increased foreign investment, free-market trade, and the creation...
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...The people of Mauritius and a people from the Andaman Islands known as the Jarawa are two examples of native non-Western cultures that have been impacted by globalization. The Jarawa, being resident to the Andaman Islands, have a long history of faltering due to globalization. This isolated group of people are a specimen of ancient and unadulterated genetics. They are vulnerable to sea-bound and sea related disasters that have disrupted their numbers, their way of life, and survival. The Jarawa were an isolated but self sufficient culture that survived on the Andaman Islands for millennium and generations. The Jarawa are one of the two only known tribes that have not learned how to produce fire. The Jarawa, being resident to the Andaman Islands, found themselves inhabiting a highly useful and strategic in terms of seafaring and points of empire. The British founded a penal colony at Port Blair in 1858, with disastrous consequences for the indigenous population, whose numbers declined rapidly because of disease and social disruption (Endicott et al 2003). Currently the Andaman Islands is a relatively well-known regional tourist attraction and safeguarded national treasure of India. The Jarawa people are struggling to preserve their livelihood and continue their traditions. At the same time the Jarawa and their neighbors are beginning to understand the needs and benefits of the Island becoming a tourist attraction and the inevitable nature of this occurrence. The Jarawa people...
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...Keohane and Nye prefer “to speak of globalism as a phenomenon with ancient roots and of globalization as the process of increasing globalism, now or in the past”. To them, “the issue is not how old globalism is, but rather how "thin" or "thick” it is at any given time. Globalism is “a state of the world involving networks of interdependence at multi-continental distances”, and for the sake of analysis, the “division into separate dimensions of globalism—e.g. economic, military or cultural globalism—is useful, as their advancement can occur asynchronously.” (Keohane & Nye, 2000, pp....
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...the world economy. Pilai presented the negative side of the fight listing many highly emotional (pathos) arguments such as the exploitation of labor, citing low wages and relaxed safety standards as problems and pollution caused by countries that have lax pollution regulation standards. Education.com took the positive side of the fight using ethos, citing its positive aspects of such as new job and industry creation in developing countries. Obviously these are emotionally charged issues…on both sides of the argument. Even with all of the persuasive negative aspects cited by Pilai, Education.coms’ view by using convincing logos -- is that globalism, if given a chance, will eventually prove to be beneficial carrying many from a life to poverty to prosperity. Pilai begins by listing many the many negative aspects of globalism using both pathos and ethos such as: 1- Developing nations have outsourced manufacturing and white collar jobs. This means less jobs for their people 2- Globalization has led to the exploitation of labor….Prisoners and child workers are used to work in inhumane conditions. Safety standards are ignored to produce cheap goods 3- Deadly diseases are spread by travelers to the remotest corners of the globe. Education .com begins in much the same way as Pilai by listing the many...
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...Globalization: A Very Short Introduction by Manfred B. Steger is a book outlining the concept of globalization. Steger looks at the perception of globalization from an economical, political, cultural and ecological standpoint. By analyzing and reviewing Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, I will look on Steger's view of globalization focusing on the economical, political, cultural and ecological standpoint, which will explain both the causes and effects of globalization. What Exactly is Globalization? Steger introduces his book by first defining globalization. He explains that many scholars have a one sided view of globalization as oppose to viewing globalization as a whole, seeing that globalization is an uneven process (Steger, 11). He refers this to the parable of the blind scholars and the elephant, and explained how each scholar had very different descriptions of what an elephant is (11). In a similar way, there are different views on globalization. Steger defined globalization as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. (13) Is Globalization a New Phenomenon? This question was answered by looking at the four approaches to globalization (18-19). By doing this Steger comes up with an answer, which one is inclined to agree with. He stated, "globalization is an ancient process that, over many countries, has distinct qualitative...
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...having only a positive or negative impact on the world. Sheba George the author of “Dirty Nurses” and “Men Who Play” gives an example in which you can see globalization has its ups and downs. Informing us that due to globalization, women now have more opportunities then they ever would have. In places like Kerala becoming a nurse gave women the chance to help support their families by adding to their family income. In Kerala the women have become the breadwinner, the husbands now left with lower respected jobs and low self-esteem turn to church to gain back their male chauvinism. The Syrian Christian church congregation gives men a sense of leadership and power over women, stirring inequality within gender. Complications that follow along globalism making it more complex, is how the environment is being impacted. Due to the rapid increase of development and technologies the ecosystem has taken a great hit. Inflammation in endangered species, deforestation and in greenhouse gasses are all effects of the globalization process. Huwart’s “What is the impact of globalization on the environment?” suggests that without immediate change the ecosystem will undergo serious damage and harm. If we are able to use new and upcoming technology to improve methods of globalization then environmental conversation can go hand in hand with globalization and its developmental change by implementing safer ecofriendly...
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...Emily Castner Writing and Thinking September 22, 2014 Analysis and Reflection #1 Question one: Globalization is a part of capitalism which increases the economic market across the globe. The mercantile age, the modern industrial-financial age, and todays electronic age are the three stages of development that globalism has gone through in the last five hundred years. The mercantile age or the great depression was the first key moment in the history of globalism. The mercantile age happened from 1929 to 1945. In this key moment, during 1935, the social security act was developed. This act was for most sections of industrial and middle class. The act was created because there was a demand for a powerful trade union movement and to bring the...
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...world. For a more specific outlook, one can look at Nike, and the fact that they have employed children in Pakistan. Firstly, this situation, and that of child labour in the fashion industry in general, can be explained by capitalism and its impact on globalization and vice versa. Second, the Nike exploits in Pakistan can be described as an exploitation of resources of a poorer country, where corporations hold less accountability for their actions because the people working do not have the economic or social means to fight back, supported by dependency theory. Finally, the disparities between Nike workers and the corporation itself are evident when the global market forces behind corporate power are examined through the concept of justice globalism. It is argued here that Nike employees, specifically child laborers, are isolated and marginalized by corporations such as Nike, who benefit from this marginalization, both economically and socially. It can be argued that capitalism is an extremely complex system that drives globalization to manifest in ways that exploit humans, violate their rights, and detriments them while benefitting others. This exact idea can be applied to the child laborers and sweatshop workers, which go hand in hand in the case of Nike’s employees in Pakistan. In the fashion industry, it is common for these violations to run rampant, at least on the production end: workers are forced to work unethical hours for very little money, often experience physical...
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...* Increase the firm’s competitiveness * Facilitates access to new product ideas, manufacturing innovations and the latest technology Internalization: doing business in many country of the world, but often limited to a certain region (ex: Europe). A. Industry globalism The strategic behaviour of firms depends on the international competitive structure within in industry. In the case of high degree of industry globalism, there are many interdependencies between markets, customers and suppliers, and the industry is dominated by a few large powerful players (global). Example of global industries: PCs, IT, records, movies and aircrafts. The other land (local) represents a multidomestic market environment, where markets exist independently from one other. Example of local industries: hairdressing, foods and dairies. B. Preparedness for internationalization The degree of preparedness is dependent on the firm’s ability to carry out strategies in the international marketplace and the actual skills in international business operations. The well-prepared company has a good basis for dominating the international markets and consequently it would gain higher market shares. | | Industry globalism | | | Local | Potentially global | Global | Preparedness for internationalization | Mature | Enter new business | Prepare for globalization | Strengthen your global position | | Adolescent | Consolidate your export markets | Consider expansion in international...
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...Brown 1 Shalone Brown Professor Carol Bruzzano English 101 30 September 2013 Outsourcing “Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn’t have to have a college degree to get a good paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.” Jennifer M. Granholm the former Governor of Michigan made this statement. In the past many Americans were able to provide for their families with low skilled jobs. However, during current times, these particular jobs are rapidly leaving our economy and entering the world economy. A simple definition of outsourcing is to obtain goods or services from an outside or foreign supplier. Outsourcing is beneficial to the world economy and companies but its having a reverse impact on the American economy and its citizens. America is one of the main contenders in the outsourcing arena, and many of our low skilled jobs were given to struggling countries. Although we lost these jobs the higher end jobs were to say here in America. Companies usually send customer service jobs, claims processing job, transcription jobs etc. to foreign economies. But, higher end jobs such as IT positions and journalism opportunities are also leaving us and going into the global workplace Outsourcing allows individuals in other countries employment opportunities. By sending these jobs to foreign lands we are helping to boost their economies, and...
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...Write an essay which applies the theories of Post-colonialism and Globalisation within an analysis of the set text The Harvest The play The Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan was written in 2003 and can be seen to be dealing with many issues facing the un-developed world such as poverty and disease. One of the most prominent features of the play are its strong links to post-colonialism and globalisation. In her article, Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest: Global technoscapes and the international trade in human body organs, Gilbert exclaims that the play focuses on “the global spread of late capitalist technology [and it’s] significant risks…Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest, locates these risks as intensely intimate and yet thoroughly social through a chilling drama about transnational flows in two distinct but related areas; biomedical technology and digital technology including virtual reality.” (Gilbert 2006). The play follows a young man, Om who signs up to the organ selling company Interplanta in order to earn money for his poverty stricken family, only to discover that his and his families lives would change forever, being ruled and watched over by who is thought to be an all American blonde called Ginni. The play follows Om and his family and their struggle to keep their identity and sanity through the hands of the Western Interplanta and the Western society who made them. There is much evidence of post-colonialism and globalisation in Padmanabhan’s Harvest, such as dehumanisation...
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