Module 1. How do you feel Globalization has shaped your own community?
Globalization today is the leading concept in America. Everywhere you go is globalization, it is the key dominant challenge in most communities of the twenty first century. Globalization has meant that with the emergence of a well-integrated global market, national and local policy makers are increasingly being controlled with dramatic implications for the economic stability and viability of communities in industrialized and developing nations. To understand fully what globalization is and how it is changing our communities, we need to explore everything surrounding it such global free market, capitalism, motivations of multi or transnational corporations and the convergence of global markets. Then we will understand the growing in equalities between the rich and the poor, and this is a major thing in all communities.
From a community viewpoint the definition of globalization is 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.
Globalization has shaped my community both positively and negatively. In this era, there is no state that has benefited more or suffered less than New York. The impact of globalization has forever changed the way we do business. Most of the area has turned globalization into an asset, but there is a few regions that has suffered unfortunately.
The benefits of globalization have been limited and sporadic in Binghamton, Buffalo (which is where I am from), Syracuse and Utica – Rome metropolitan areas, where traditional manufacturing accounted for an extraordinarily high share of all private sector jobs.
New York is the country’s third largest dairy producer, second largest apple grower and a major producer of wine. Let me tell you, this