In this week’s “Working with Evidence”, the primary focus was on globalization, which is the process of businesses or other organizations developing international influence or operations on an international scale, after World War II. Based on the provided six images and the text of Chapter 23, it presented different ways various groups of people experienced globalization since the end of World War II. To begin, visual source 23.1 (‘Globalization and Work’) shows a Chinese-owned company producing jeans in a small country in southern Africa called Lesotho - this image shows the economic benefits of globalization. Many companies in wealthier countries would often find advantages to build facilities in places where labor is less expensive or environmental regulations are less restrictive. However, some companies would abuse the process of economic globalization as shown in visual source 23.3 (‘Globalization and Protest’). Visual source 23.3 shows a protester in Sao Paulo, Brazil, holding up a sign that reads “A better world according to Monsanto is a world with more cancer.” The company Monsanto is a major producer of herbicides, genetically modified foods, and many highly controversial chemicals such as DDT, PCBs, Agent Orange, and bovine growth hormones. In dozens of developed/developing countries activists have demonstrated or riot against government policies that removed subsidies raised prices on essential products, frozen salaries, or cut back on social services. Although
Within the source the author is trying to say that the legacy of historical globalization has resulted in advancements in modern society and people have prospered from it. Mainly how the driving force of the ethnocentrism in historical globalization leads to a prosperous society. The specific line of “superior standard of living shared by individuals in the developed world was achieved through historical globalization” supports this and is also referring to how in the first world have benefited. The superior standard of living that the source is referring to is the comforts of life and how living standards have skyrocketed now. This taken along with the author following that up with “in the developed world” means that only the developed/first
I, as a citizen, should respond to globalization to a moderate extent. Globalization affects different people in a variety of ways. As a citizen, I believe it is my duty to respond to globalization. Globalization not only affects people as individuals, but people as a whole. For example, both World War I and World War II had as big of an impact as they did because of globalization. There are both negative and positive aspects of this. Because of globalization, countries were able to get the support they needed to help fight for their side. On the contrary, this dragged more countries into the wars, and those wars have lasting effects. Through globalization, World War I has caused permanent income taxes for Canada, World War I lead to World War II, and to this day, people are still dealing with the consequences.
It took along time until Canada came to the policy of multiculturalism that it has today. The first nations went through a lot to get to where they are today which is still not a great place considering they were here before any of the European settlers. When Europeans first got to Canada they didn’t consider it as more than a land with lots of fishing. The encounters between the Europeans and Aboriginals were usually pleasant and friendly, because they both wanted to trade with each other and the europeans did not yet have imperialistic ambitions. In the later half of the 1500s Canada started to be seen for more than a fishing district and the Europeans desire for beaver fur started the early trade routes with Canada thus beginning colonization. When the Europeans decided to settle in Canada that’s when cultures began to clash because they both had such different beliefs. The British began making treaties with the first nations in order to share the land but they were making oral promises that were not the same as the ones written on the treaties. When settlers began taking the land of the beothuk they tried to drive the settlers away but, ended up just making them angry so the Europeans began hunting and killing them eventually leading to the extinction of the Beothuk culture. Then the royal proclamation gave the first nations land and
In the period of historical globalization, a lot of horrible events had happen and many people have suffered, also lost what they had such as land, culture, languages, family, freedom, and dignity. Like the Rwanda incidents, Apartheid Law in South Africa and the incidents in Residential Schools in Canada. Although those things had happened, they still survive and right now is rebuilding and moving forward to not let it happen again with the little help of NGOs. In my opinion, Contemporary society has done enough to respond to the legacies of historical globalization. Moving forward and start making a better future is the only answer for those horrible events from repeating itself.
Criteria: What acts have actually been made to respond to the legacies of historical globalization? How have these effects been made in trying to respond to historical globalization? What has changed since then? What has not changed?
Modern society should respond to the legacies and problems created by globalization in the past. Without these responses, relationships with indigenous peoples who were harmed from colonization will never be repaired. There is a popular belief that these should not be acted on because what occurred in the past can not be undone and is not the fault or burden of modern society. This proves to not be true because some issues from the past are just coming to light and being debated and responded to today. Examples of this would be the effect of residential schools on the Aboriginal community, and the debate of who land traditionally occupied by First Nations belongs to. If historical globalization is
The maquiladora workers provide a story about globalization that is often obscured by barriers like oceans, borders, or even physical walls. This side of the story is often not highlighted by the supporters of neoliberal globalization in the way that the pledged benefits are. The people who know this side are usually the ones living and dealing with the some of the so called “dangers” that globalization has made a reality. Cynthia Enloe and Alison Jaggar both offer counter narratives about globalization that focus on the negative aspects that come out of globalization as it currently stands. But unlike the two authors’ accounts, “Maquilapolis” takes the telling of a counter narrative a step further by having the story come straight from those who are living it. The counter narrative that is told in the film was created by the filmmakers and the women featured in “Maquilapolis”. The film gives the workers a platform that is often not offered to them. The lives of the women featured in the film, which are heavily influenced by globalization, are far from the ideal that globalization promises. Although the workers either benefit or once benefitted from the higher wages they made working in the factories, the damages more often outweighed the benefits. Magdalena Cerda from the Environmental Health Coalition expands on this point by asserting that along with the capital from the company “comes the impact on the environment and on people's health” (“Maquilapolis”, 30:00-30:07). In the next section, we look directly at the negative environmental and health effects that have come with globalization and free trade as expressed in the film
America’s is a low context country that values personal space, and individual accomplishments. China is a collectivistic culture, where communication is internalized rather than being relatively blunt compared to American society. With such a large barricade between supreme states, how was the world supposed to achieve globalization? In fact, attempt to amend or change our individualistic culture has manifested a new movement known as anti globalization to challenge the issue.” Anti-globalization is a transnational protest movement that is global in character and has a decentralized network organization, that is worldwide and created to preserve identities.( )” This movement is self organize and created to combat rule authority over the behavior of humans. “In protest of anti-globalization movements, large summits and meetings of the worlds largest financial institutions are regularly targeted.” Currently it is writing widely believe those in power in a globalized world will consist of the World Trade Organization (WTO) International, Monetary Fund(IMF) and World Bank. Many opponents of globalization say it leads to exploitation of the world’s poor, workers, in that
From the 1816 to the start of World War I in 1914, the world benefited from a well integrated financial order, sometimes known as the First age of Globalisation. Money unions were operating which efficiently allowed members to accept each other's currency as legal tender including the Latin Monetary Union (Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, France) and Scandinavian monetary union (Denmark, Norway and Sweden). In the absence of shared membership of a union, transactions were facilitated by widespread participation in the gold standard, by both independent nations and their colonies. Great Britain was at that time regarded as world's pre-eminent financial, imperial, and industrial power, ruling more of the world and exporting more capital as a percentage of her national income than any other creditor nation has since.
‘Globalization is Good’ is a recorded documentary by a Swedish writer Johan Norberg. The meaning of globalization is the worldwide act regarding economic, communications integration, financial, and trade. Furthermore, globalization is the gateway to a wider, more open, connected and independent world with goods and capital free of transfer. Despite that, this does not incorporate labor to be delayed, although this might damage some economies if it is not done unsystematically. During Norberg’s research, he believes that the anti-globalization movement is hazardously wrong. Norberg suspects that globalization constructs people to enter poverty in the third world. Furthermore, Norberg is convinced that global capitalism could come to rescue numerous underdeveloped countries. Norberg, in the documentary traveled to many places to promote global capitalism and venture to demonstrate for what purpose he be convinced by that protestors that get involved in anti-globalization movements are unconscious and wrong. The most important three countries that Norberg has visited are Taiwan, Vietnam and Kenya.
During the 20th century technology was developed and perfected. Globalization was just starting to transform the world, and people were amazed. As time passed and globalization grew, the economy benefited from the new ideas that were spread. Most of the people were keen to these new ideas, which allowed the economy to skyrocket. There is no doubt that there were things that negatively affected the economy, but for the most part the economy was positively affected, communication, transportation, and industrial operations single-handedly boosted the struggling economy.
There is controversy over when globalization began because there is no crystal clear start to globalization. Some people believe that globalization started when the Buddhist leader Chandragupta combined aspects of trade, religion, and military to create a protected trading area. Others believe that globalization began under Genghis Khan’s rule. The Mongolian warrior-ruler created an empire that had trade integrated into it. There are also some experts that believe that the rise of globalization was linked to 1492, the year Christopher Columbus made his first trip to the New World.
Throughout the United States' history, especially after World War I, there have been many competing economic theories about government policy. The architects of the most referenced policies tend to be John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek of the Austrian School of economic thought and Ayn Rand (though it can be argued Rand’s ideas are more philosophy than economic theory.) These three theories seem to be always in the forefront of any economic discussions taking place in the United States.
The rise of globalization following WWII generated three important factors that define today’s world. McNeill and McNeill agree with Pollard, Rosenberg, and Tignor that multiple economic changes, such as the creation of financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) contributed to the globalization of the world economy. Carter and Warren further this argument by claiming that globalization has caused shifts in the modern economy, namely the rise of Asian economic powers. However, all three historians agree that the rise of globalization goes hand in hand with the rise of inequality in today’s world. Gaps in power, wealth, and access to information have only widened due to the trend of globalization. The final key factor defining our world today are the ongoing processes affecting development countries. McNeill and McNeill argue similarly to Carter and Warren that the end of imperialism generated new nations who quickly realized the free market was a pathway to stability. However, Pollard et al. and McNeill and McNeill place importance on financial institutions like the IMF forcing developing nations to reform their economies to be subservient to the world’s economy. Together, these historians argue that the trend of globalization following WWII caused factors like the modern global economy, the rise in inequality, and the development of new, decolonized nations to be key determiners in the world today.
Quoted by the Financial Times as the “integration of economies, industries, markets, cultures and policy-making around the world”, globalisation has thrived in recent years owing to developments in communication, transportation and trade, accompanied by the enhancement and increased use of information technology. Whilst at first glance this could be regarded as beneficial, it has nonetheless provoked a number of high profile and often violent protests of late. Notably the biggest anti-globalisation demonstration ever experienced was in Seattle in 1999 involving 40,000 activists (BBC News). Globalisation has a multitude of different facets, ranging from the worlds of research and health, to media and technology. This essay however, will look at the economic aspects associated with globalization and will seek to explore some of the reasons behind these protests. Contrastingly, it will also look at the benefits of this increase in interconnectivity examining how a rise in business wealth will allow others to share the benefits.