whats so bad about globalisation?
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rich countries get richer and poor nations get abused and used
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Australia is such a big country, and with practically NO population. How do you think such a country can exist without having (good) relationships with neighbouring countries.\nThe policy has to be it is good to have a "good neighbour", but if the neighbour is bad - say their neighbour (is a fact) is Indonesia ... perhaps they say, this is a bad country - harbouring a lot of bomb-throwing extremists - then, can they just "avoid" Indonesia ... cannot, they have positive trade balance with Indonesia ...\nPositive meaning a one-way trade flow, from Australia to Indonesia ... what does that mean? This is good for the country? This is income.\nBut on the other hand, they wish to avoid contact ... no way ... without trade ... there is simply not enough people to keep the Australian economy moving "by itself" perpetually ... they need their neighbours!!\nSo, it is good and it is bad! Just balance these - if you can ... then you should be doing okay!!
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There are many issues here.\n1) Imports may be cheeper and still be as good or better.\n2) Importing goods is "exporting" jobs. Can lead to unemployment and downturns in the local economy.\n3) Limiting imports stops local firms from improving production processes as they make good profits under their production.\n4) Sometimes imported goods don't have the warranty and after sales service as local goods.\n5) Importing from one country often opens the door to exporting to the exporting country.\n\nCan be advantageous but has disadvantages as well.
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There has been an increase in globalization in the United States as well as in rest of the world. This has resulted in many good things as well a lot of economic dislocation and unemployment.  It is not completely evil as you seem to assume. Read Thomas Friedman's "The Lexus and the Olive Tree".\n\ncc
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according to most theorists, no.  They tend to argue that:\n1.) overseas nations are exploited by global corporations\n    *we take their raw materials/use them up for very cheap\n    *we hire their people at extremely low wages\n2.) because of globalization, the gap between the rich and \n    poor is widening\n    *the rich get richer and poor get poorer (we exploit \n     them to make higher profits-the less they make the\n     more we keep)\n3.) I would also add that jobs are taken away from   \n    Americans when factories are moved overseas.\n    *this will hurt our economy b/c we rely on a large \n     middle class of consumers to buy stuff
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The impact can be described in one word... globalization. Globalization reforms are actually going to boost India's economy enormously and make them a viable global market competitor to be taken very serious.
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That sounds like... GLOBALIZATION!\n\nLots of people are afraid of globalization, but not me. (Mass, cross-cultural communication and electronic technology are actually allowing us to diversify and retain separate identities. (See Marshall Mcluhan, Thomas Hylland Eriksen or Google for an article called 'My Hometown is a URL in cyberspace' about the resurgence of ethnic identities due to the internet.))\n\nHowever, I find it difficult to cope with the many layers of bureaucracy in my current life. First of all I have the local government which is 'the city and county of Swansea', then above that is the national government - 'the Welsh Assembly', then above that is the British government, and overruling them is the European Union and (supposedly) the United Nations. Before you could start a World government you'd have to weed out a few of these, preferably the British Government as Blair is growing increasingly irritating.\n\nThere's also the problem of which political system to use. We hear so much about the glory of democracy, but some cultures just don't seem to want it. Also, democratic elections could cause mayhem in a world government; there'd be so many parties that there might not be a majority and they'd never ever agree on anything! And for such a moral force as a world government, you'd be aiming to get as close to consensus as possible. Would there be proportional representation of votes? Would minority groups resent this?\n\nSo much to decide... but who would make the decisions?
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Globalization of world societies & economies.
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I assume you mean communication with the rest of the world? If so, communication is absolutely essential for developing an economy on the global market. These countries have to try to turn a trade deficit into a positive by attempting to export more than they import. Communication is the primary medium that allows this to happen. Internet, telecommunications, etc... Also, tight controls on inflation through currency availability is important. Finally, opening up trade for foreign direct investment will bring in revenue. In every case I have mentioned, communication is the backbone. Communication could not possibly be more important than that!
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Definition: - "The tendency of investment funds and businesses to move beyond domestic and national markets to other markets around the globe, thereby increasing the interconnectedness of different markets."\n\nIt refers to the worldwide phenomenon of technological, economic, political and cultural exchanges, brought about by modern communication, transportation and legal infrastructure as well as the political choice to consciously open cross-border links in international trade and finance. It is a term used to describe how human beings are becoming more intertwined with each other around the world economically, politically, and culturally. Although these links are not new, they are more pervasive than ever before.\n\nThe economic aspects stressed in globalization are trade, investment and migration. The globalization of trade entails that human beings have greater access to a plethora of goods and services never seen before in human history. From German cars, to Colombian coffee, from Chinese clothing, to Egyptian cotton, from American music to Indian software, human beings may be able to purchase a wide range of goods and services. The globalization of investment takes place through Foreign Direct Investment, where multinational companies directly invest assets in a foreign country, or by indirect investment where individuals and institutions purchase and sell financial assets of other countries. Free migration allows individuals to find employment in jurisdictions where there are labor shortages.\n\nThe political aspects of globalization are evidenced when governments create international rules and institutions to deal with issues such as trade, human rights, and the environment. Among the new institutions and rules that have come to fruition as a result of globalization are the World Trade Organization, the Euro currency, the North American Free Trade Agreement, to name a few.\n\nCultural global ties also grow through globalization as news ideas and fashions through trade, travel and media move around the globe at lightning speed. Global brands such as Coca-Cola, Puma & Sony serve as common reference to consumers all over the World. An individual in China enjoys the same soft drink as an individual in Puerto Rico--at opposite ends of the globe. However, these ties may also cause strains: for example Western Ideas of freedom of expression may clash with Islamic views on Religious tolerance
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Honestly if you are a developing country, you are probalby leery at best of Globalizaton. It offers very little protection for your local industry and very often leads all the way to a loss of gov. sovergnity. One of the features of the globalization system is that debt ridden industrialzing countries recieve short term aid packages from the IMF/World Bank. The problem is the way the packages work, countries are required to adjust the structure of their economy to recieve aid. These used to be called structural adjustment programs (SAP's) but the name has been changed as a result of many riots resulting from sap actions. Part of the problem is everything is privatized very quickly but there is little done to ensure any kind of safety net for the locals or the local businesses. What results is transnational companys swoop in, take what they can essentially, and leave with their investments which cripple a country. Likewise, countries are often told what to produce, but the influx of a certain good hurts prices, and at a competitve disadvantage to developed countries this can be a killer.\n\nTo answer the last questions.... it is not a secure financial system as many NIC (newly industrializing countries) are more debt ridden and have higher unemployment than before. Likewise, legally a country has less say over its gov. because of the debt they have incurred of high interest short term loans. \n\nAnother problem is the transnationals dont get taxed very much by the gov. (as a rule of the saps) so the privitization process can occur very rapidly at a high cost to the country. Also property rights are secure for the new investors and their companies because of sap rule, but not for the country.\n\nAs i think it shows, for developing countries, neoliberal economics (globalization) is not a very user friendly system. The spoils all go the global elite while the countries being used to create that wealth often end up in worse shape than before.
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Every other how Globalizatin is affecting India and U.S\n                   \n                        INDIA\n1) Stock Market: - Because of Globalization, FII's And FDI's are investing in our country in a huuge way, this leading to a boom in the stock market and strenghthening our economy.\n2) Higher Standard Of Living: - With multination companies coming in India after Globalization our living standard has risen due to better products being provided by them at nominal rates.\n3) More Employment: though our unemployment rate is still high, but as multinational companies are able to set up there offices over here, they are able give good job oportunities and are creating more jobs.\n\n                          U.S\n1) Offshoring of business: - Due to globalization, many of the U.S Busineses are being offshored to various other countries where there are cheap labour, as labour in U.S is very expensive.\n2) Reduction In Job Opportunity: - It can be logically followed from the first point that due to offshoring of business, the job opportunity in U.S have reduced considerably.\n3) Brain Drain: - Though businesses are being offshore to other countries, still there are a few jobs for which one has to go to U.S to achieve his/her dreams. Jobs related to astronomy is a example. People who need better infrastructure for their jobs are shifting to U.S.\n\nThere you have your answer.
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It has to do with the 'New World Order' and Globalization. When only a few corporations are calling the shots and pushing for this new order, globalization, they really don't care whom we trade with. The main goal is to reach the bottom line on an overhead, profit level. \n\nPolitics is just something to distract the masses and to make us feel like we have some sense of power when in reality, we have none.
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Globalisation, in my opinion, started several centuries ago. The way Budhism spread from India to the far east is a case in point. The building of temples and social and economic thinking, to the East from India is a classical case of globalisation.\nHowever, the concept took a new meaning with the discovery of the New World in the 15th/16th Century. The engine to the discovery was to bring spices, gold and other precious commodities to Europe. Some form of Economic Imperialism.\nIn the 1970's, the US and Europe, went on the globalisatin spree, as we know it now. This was particulaly the case with the large multinationals, who saw tremedous opportunities in the low cost economies, and the large markets, which would give them further opprtnities to grow.\nHowever, I believe, we have only seen the tip of the iceberg for economic globalsation, as I see further opportunties with the process.
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Globalization ... affects Globe (Philipines INCLUDED)\n\nPhilipinization ... affects ONLY Philipines (not rest of Globe)\n\nAmericanization ... affects only America (Not Philipines , Not Rest of Globe)
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All the Nations that wanted our technology and our wealth will want globalisation.  The only people in the US that actually gain from globalisation are the rich folks that have corporations in another country.\n\nEverything we need is here.\nEverything that the world need in here.\n\nWill you share your house with any stranger just because your rich neighbor said it is o.k.?\n\n\nBut once the US is at the bottom of the food chain even the US rich folks will be kick out of India or China like dogs.  When that happen our rich folks will parade us with US flags on all the Wal-Mart trucks again.
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GLOBALIZATION\n\nThe politicians are being bribed to destroy America, we call these bribes campaign contributions. Monied interests who want to unify the Western Hemisphere into a single trade bloc from Canada to Chile have been supporting politicians who will make laws and policy decisions to bring about this goal. For years the ground work has quietly been laid, NAFTA, lax border enforcement, foreign aid to developing nations to impoversh those nations and make them subject to foreign money manipulation.\n\nWith the flood of illegals in the US the main opposition to this trade bloc, the US middle class, is being eliminated. Soon the middle class will vanish and there will be no group with the political will to resist the New World order being constructed against our interests.\n\nSo by allowing this massive influx of people into our nation it will destroy the middle class and stop the opposition for these trade blocs and ultimatly a New World Order.