ur opinion on globalization?
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To borrow from President Clinton here, it depends on what the meaning of "globalization" is. I have seen a number of definitions, ranging from social-cultural to economic.  Usually "globalization" conjures up ideas of some sort of global inter-connectedness wherein previous barriers are no longer as salient, and the free flow of tangible and intangible goods serves to change the entire system- arguably for the better.  If we assume that we're talking about globalization on all fronts, such that we mean the free flow of all tangible and intangible goods, then at first glance we might be tempted to say that this is a good thing.  But I would rather ask another question. Rather than assuming that globalization is an end unto itself, I would rather pose the question in terms of how globalization might be used as a tool to accomplish a specific goal. For example, on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)- an often cited example of economic globalization in North America- we might ask how workers have fared in terms of their wages, rights, workplace safety.  Or, we might look at China's accession to the WTO and its consequences.  I personally do not believe that the answer to your question lies in "globalization" itself, but how it is used.  With any radical change, there are bound to be costs and benefits. But the costs and benefits arise largely because new opportunities are created. Those opportunities do not necessarily indicate a fixed directionality or path. Rather, it is how people use those opportunities to achieve certain results. Globalization is neither inherently "good" nor inherently "bad". It does not demean rights, or wages, or the safety of others, no more so than a car can cause a highway accident or a gun can kill a person.  It matters more how globalization is used as a tool to achieve specific ends.
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China is pretty smart... I think we can all agree they have an artifically devalued currecy, which gives them a nice advantage in the world market, but hey it's not like the U.S. doesn't have some nice advatages too. I worry a lot about human rights issues there and I wish they could maybe set a little better example for Southeast Asia. But as for it's role in the international community, it's a billion people, huge workforce for potentially cheap labor and huge market for imported goods. The needs are pushing up the prices for goods internationally though, like oil, but hey that's consumerism.
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How about the effects of globalization on the developing world?\n\nThe effect of global warming on the Arctic
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Our influence on other countries is definitely imperialism.  We have used the assets of other countries,  keeping rulers in power in those countries because they are friendly to us.  Allowing those rulers to get rich, leaving the people of their nations poor.\nConsuming the assets of all these nations to benefit a select, international group.  Global culture would be a wonderful thing, but that is not what is going on now.  What is happening with the World Monetary Fund and the one world movement is domination by international corporations, with no allowance for human rights, labor rights, environmental concerns or for human beings.  Only for capital.  US is just leading the way for international corporate domination of the world.
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great human philosophy..leave every problem behind the borders and then the problem doesn't exist anymore. when is this world gonna realise that we have global issues, and we all need to deal with them??\n\n(a dutch guy living in romania)
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Globalization has been treating India very well.  It is well respected by the world and has been getting many internation companies to establish offices and operations in India.
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when america took over iraq and put its fast food, banks, and other american poisions thats globalization. When countries that dont have phone lines start using cell phone technology instead of any natural progress, thats globalization. When hurricane  or other natural disaster victims recieve relief, thats globalization. When children build foreign products, thats globalization. Basically its not america the melting pot, its now becoming the global melting pot.
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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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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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Globalisation is the most talked and debated issue in the contemporary world. It is a concept that escapes precise definition. In most cases, it is described rather than defined. However, it does not mean the same thing for all. For some, globalisation is a process of opening up economies so that trade between countries could take place freely. For them increasing globalisation has helped the expansion of opportunities for nations and benefited workers in rich and poor countries alike. Brings positive benefits for consumers, helping to increase choice, drive down prices, improve services and create new jobs and opportunities. Globalisation can therefore be seen as a positive force for change that has the potential to raise living standards and drive economies forward.\n\nHowever, this is not readily acceptable for all. Many think globalisation as the concerted strategy of the industrial world, particularly of the Multinational Corporations, to safeguard their interest and spur a new form of colonisation. After opening of our market, our country will become a supermarket of foreign goods, which are cheaper, killing our local industries, increasing many more jobless. For them, globalisation means increasing poverty and deteriorating living standard of the workers, widening disparity between the rich and the poor within the country and also among the countries, and internationalisation of capital to the detriment of labour market. Even for the moderates, globalisation is a process of restructuring the world economy to find ways for business to maximise profits.\n\nThe IMF, the World Bank and the WTO and more generally, the high income countries are held responsible for influencing and largely determining the course of the globalisation process. They are also seen as the driving forces behind the policy reforms that the developing countries had to implement as part of their structural adjustment programs under the supervision of the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. It is obvious that those countries and organisations will only foster their own interests. Globalization has become an unstoppable phenomenon affecting all aspects of our lives. Some Governments, political parties and trade unions often view this development as at best challenging and at worst sinister. Business and their representative organisations, on the other hand, promote the benefits of open trade across political boundaries and the integration of markets to create global opportunities.\n\nGlobalization is a process of increasing economic and non-economic linkages across the world. In the broadest sense Globalization implies integration of economies and societies across the globe. It is equated with the massive, irresistible cross-border flow and integration in the movement of goods, technology, labour and capital, resulting mainly from breakthroughs in transportation and communication. In a wider perspective, Globalisation, covers, various activities such as cultural globalisation, political globalisation, ecological globalisation, economic globalization and so on. But Here I am only discussing about economic globalisation. Economic globalisation implies increasing global inter-linkages of the markets in goods, services, capital and financing. Such a process has speeded up in the recent decade. The contributory factors for rapid economic globalisation are liberalisation, deregulation, privatisation, and declining costs of transport and communication.\n\nThe micro-electronics revolution has irrevocably changed the essence of human contact to earth. Distances are shrinking and information is spreading faster than ever before. The internet and World Wide Web have helped this process. Perhaps the most important catalyst for globalization is the spread of information and communications technology (ICT). Through the magic of ICT, it is now possible to instantly access useful information through the Internet and the latest computer technology.\n\nWhile talking about gl
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The two terms are not exactly the same thing.  The term "globalization" is a fashionable buzzword related to the growing integration of economies and societies around the world.  \n\nGlobal village is a term coined by P. Wyndham Lewis in his book America and Cosmic Man (1948). However, Marshall McLuhan also wrote about this term in his book The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (1962). His book describes how electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers in human communication, enabling people to interact and live on a global scale. In this sense, the globe has been turned into a village by the electronic mass media.\n\nToday, the global village is mostly used as a metaphor to describe the Internet and World Wide Web. The Internet globalizes communication by allowing users from around the world to connect with each other. Similarly, web-connected computers enable people to link their web sites together. This new reality has implications for forming new sociological structures within the context of culture.\n\nThese links will give you much more informaation.  I hope this helps.
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Yes we need each other.\nThere are too many global issues where we need to work together as a world to over come.  Hunger, polution so on.  If we hid in our own little corners of the world and only try to take care of our own then we lose the chance to learn from each other.  If nothing else think of the food.  Ever visit a really cuturally diverse area at the time of a festival where all cultures came together and shared their traditional foods.  Oh my goodness that alone is reason for globalization.\n\nAre we closer together?  That depends on what your comparing it to.  In general I think yes but there are strong sticking points that cause us to move backwards.  I think two of the biggest stumbling blocks are also two things often seen as strengths.  Language and Religion.  If we could just add tollorance I think anything could be possible.  The problem is that in certain areas people refuse to understand that others may think radically differently than ourselves and then we are back to square 1.
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Unless we start accepting globalization and its ramifcations, I would say we will be up to our armpits in jobless people. I could go on but why? I can't change anything but myself.
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Here is a quote from a letter of a delegate to a United Nations conference on trade and Employment Nove 27,1947.  It sounded reasonable then and is still reasonable today, dont you think?\n\n"Economics , more than any factor, shapes the destiny of nations and the history of human projection...... The path of civilization lies with the development of trade between one country and another.\n\nThe growing human wants with attendant complexities urged nations to seek out contacts with nations near and far to develop trade and commerce on a mutually advantageous basis.\n-------M.A. Ishapani\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\nIf you will ignore the complex words, it all boils down to this. our island have plenty of potatoes tbis year.  The island in front of us, I heard that they have plenty of pigs and the thier neighbor has coffee. Let us trade some of the potatoes for pigs and coffee. \nWe have been doing early  commerce like this , and it is called bartering. Soon after that , we traded with currency, debts and other forms of payment.\n\nToday, we have well established laws and models of commercial trading of goods and jobs all over the world.  \n\nWe are in the process of grappling with international trade rules and laws to govern trade via internet.
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I've thought that for at least 10 years. The only problem is with the global economy, it is hard to not be involved in all these other countries.
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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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Globalisation is a tricky subject because no matter how many different countries and languages exist, we live on ONE planet (so its a double edged sword...does a country get involved in the global market and grow or does it try to withdraw and hid with its borders and preseve its cultural and national identity)\n\nI say that traditions are important but need to give way or adpat to the world\n\n1) What country wants to be without medical, business, science, and techological gadgets and the like to improve the lives of it government and people? China and India and other countries that were behind in Globalisation are speeding up to join the world. The Middle East despite all its political and social issues are wanting to join the rest of the world in trade and techological advances\n\n2) A country that isolates itself will have to join the world anyways (like China) but the more it drags its feet the futher behind it will be the rest of the world \n\n3) A country that joins the world market full force can wield influence over other countries. China and India are two good examples...the USA one of the most powerful countries on the planet can't really bully them around without negative political and economic effects to itself.\nThe Middle East also wield influence over the US and the rest of the world. Countries that want to grow need fuel to power their trade, goods, and market so you have to go to countries that have the means to fuel your global ambitions. India wants nuclear fuel to power its markets so it has to deal with the USA\n\n3) Tradition is erroded in the process but any given country would like to give a little of this up so that it will not be a total victim of assimilation of the other countries that go full force into Globalisation