Historical Perspective Of Globalization

When it comes to globalization, everyone may have a different vision of it’s outcome. For Marcelo Gleiser, the author of “Globalization: Two visions of the Future of Humanity”, a completely globalized world may result in a dystopia. In contrast, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the author of “A Mickey Mouse Approach to Globalization” and Tanveer Ali, the creator of “The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food” may think of globalization as other cultures sharing each other’s components to interact on a new level and spurring a more “open-minded” (Ali 27) individual.

Globalization is the process of world integration of ideas, cultures and economies. In the past five hundred years there were two major periods of globalization which have generated irreversible effects on the world. One period, began with the Age of Exploration in the late fifteenth century, and it spanned until the eighteen hundreds. The other period, the post WW II era, began in the middle of the twentieth century and continues today. Each of these eras marked a tremendous evolution in economic strength, religion, human rights, woman’s rights, agriculture and last but not least technology.

Although the first use of the term ‘globalization’ can be traced back to the 1940s, it was only after half a century that this concept stormed the public consciousness. The buzzword ‘globalization’ exploded into the ‘Roaring nineties’ because it captured the increasingly interdependent nature of social life on this planet. Earlier the concept of globalization was viewed as a techo-economic juggernaut spreading western culture and the intellection of capitalism and quashing local beliefs and national traditions. Thus, it was viewed as a ripple of Americanization. One corollary of the propagation of this perspective created fears in the minds of people, who had utter love and affection towards their own culture.

In today’s landscape, globalization is surely a highly-loaded term and one that cannot be denied. However, it cannot be accurately evaluated without taking into consideration the point of view of those who have be most heavily impacted, or “globalized” by its spread. Things do not appear as black and white as certain agents of globalization, such as governments or corporations may want to believe and even portray it as such. In both literature and reality, it can be seen that there are more than one side to every issue, and the concept cannot be considered ethically without spending time in consideration of those most significantly affected. Our initial vision of globalization is one that has been sugar coated

I, like many other young adults and adolescents living in western society, had not given globalization much thought before reading Jeffrey Jensen Arnett’s “The Psychology of Globalization” and John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge’s “Think Again: The Globalization Backlash”. I most likely had not given much thought to globalization before these two readings, not because I do not care about other cultures and being culturally well spoken, but because globalization has not directly impacted me as much as it has my peers from other non-western countries. After reading the two articles, I had hoped that I would have more information to be able to form an opinion on the topic. Although, I had more facts and details about globalization, I still was unsure if it was beneficial to societies or detrimental them. This puzzled me, and I think that proposing a model about some of the factors of globalization and how they affect the general population would help me and others understand the consequences of globalization better.

Globalization has a massive effect in shaping local cultures since its origin in the late 15th century following the integration of markets between Europe and the Americas. Globalization is a relatively new term that was coined in the 1990’s even though some historians argue that its origins go back to the beginning of mankind. Since then, globalization has become a phenomenon that has impacted every sector of the world. In result, globalization assumes a role in destroying local culture through the dominance of powerful nation-states, influx of foreign made goods and the negative reactions from inhabitants of local cultures.

In regards to our daily social lives, the first major effect globalization has is what stands above and controls all the others. This is the

Globalization refers to the concept of the world as a whole (Robertson, 1992), and people in the world are integrated into a single world society (Albow & King, 1990). Globalization is the process of world shrunk, distances shorten, and things closeness, that increases and benefits the interaction between any person on a location of the world and someone over the other side of the world (Larsson, 2001). Globalization intensifies the global interconnections, links different parts of the world in a way that local events can be resulted from happenings that occur in other localities and vice versa (Giddens, 1991). Globalization has be identified as one of the most common forces that influence the world today, include political, economic, social and cultural changes (Knox, 1995).

Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. In this essay I will use culture as reference to discuss the above question. I will look at the Globalists ( positive and the pessimistic globalists ), Inter-nationalists and the Transformationalists view points of how globalization affects our culture.

Globalization has caused the world to change. Globalization is the process by which the world is interconnected through technology and powerful infrastructure for the purpose of communicating and managing resources. Countries around the world have gotten closer over past few decades due to growing integration between economies. It brings the countries closer to each other and make them more interrelated through providing unrestrained trade and financial exchange. Opening up the economy to globalization can have both favourable and unfavourable impact on the country’s economic growth, environment, human capital, cultural dominance etc. The expansion of markets has created an industry that exploits millions of individuals labour in the

Globalization is the result of human innovation and technological progress. Many people view globalization in different ways. Globalization refers to the widening and deepening interconnections among the world’s peoples through all forms of exchange. Some view Globalization as a process that is beneficial, a process inevitable and irreversible; nevertheless, others view it as a big problem for different cultures. A further explanation is that Globalization can be looked at from different aspects, like politically, economically, technologically, culturally.

Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, a new position has become dominant in world’s major economic and political circles. This new and unprecedented situation is the term of globalization. Globalization can be seen as the present process of becoming global by the emergence of a world economy, a cosmopolitan culture and international social movements. Nowadays, we cannot avoid the notion of globalization as it affects everyone since it presents them with a world context which influences them in some of their doings.

The rapid growth of globalization has transformed the way businesses are managing their operations in this global world. This has brought considerable benefits as well as challenges and often political backlash. In this paper, we analyze the basic facts and trends surrounding the globalization phenomenon. We attempt to understand the genesis and basic drivers behind globalization. We focus on identify and analyze factors which contribute to globalization, analyze the effects of globalization, analyze the rise of economist nationalism under globalization and attempt to find out if it exists a correlation between globalization and the rise of new nationalism.

From agriculture to industrialization to innovation and the expansion of technology, the acceleration of worldwide interactions has profoundly shaped today’s society. Globalization exists beyond the ends of America. The rapid growth of local and global relationships proves our interdependency. Our willingness to effectively and cooperatively communicate determines our fates in this globalized world. Globalization is “the expansion and intensification of social relations and consciousness across world-time and world-space” (Steger, 2013, p. 15). The four main dimensions are economic, political, ecological, and cultural. Because the effects of globalization are very polarizing, globalization still remains a controversial issue. There is

Globalization, like most phenomenon, is controversial. It is defined as the “increasing cross-border flow of goods, services, money, people, information, and culture” (as cited in Ariely, 2011). Though, it has been around for many years, the extent at which it impacts economies, international relationships, and everyday life has become more profound than ever before. Due to its controversial nature, there have been many critiques of its process. Postcolonial critics have argued that it is merely the latest stage in a long history of oppression and exploitation by Western nations, and that the idea of “global citizenship” is just another way for the West to impose its values on the rest of the world. This is not the first claim to be made against globalization, with many others throwing around claims of “Americanization”, and “global erasing the local”. This is due to the lack of understanding of globalization as not just a historical process, but also a “conceptual change in which people are aware of world as a single place, … [with] an important effect on various types of social identities around the world (as cited in Ariely, 2011). However, this process does not seek to eliminate local, social, or national identities. “Globalization and localization are inseparably linked” (as cited in Sobol, 2016). It creates a symbiotic relationship between the global and the local, where they complement and aid each other. The process of globalization is not the latest stage of oppression by Western countries, but rather “the global integration [that] hastens the worldwide convergence of cultures” (as cited in Sobol, 2016). Globalization is a phenomenon that benefits our world, as it is responsible for the integration of cultures, the rise in economies, and aids in international relationships.