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How Does Globalization Affect Australia

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Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, economies and governments of different nationalities. Globalization is not new, over thousands of years globalization has progressed through travel, migration and the spread of culture. Globalization has an overwhelmingly positive impact to most countries in terms of economy, political, and culture. In the article “Foreign Affairs; Politics In the age of Nafta” by Thomas L. Friedman, he stated that when he went to Asia, where Australians held their national election campaign, the campaign revolved around biscuits and bathing suits. He wrote that the issue in Australia was that, John Howard, who heads Australia’s liberal party, claimed that Mr. Paul Keathing’s party …show more content…

(30)”This shows that countries are spreading their cultural values and interest all around the world. A good is Japanese sushi, even though it is Japanese food but people in America also eat it. The fifth misconception was that “Globalization is by and for rich people” which he doesn’t agree with it. He mentions “the Chinese, or the emerging middle classes in Brazil, Turkey, Vietnam, and countless other countries that owe their recent success to trade and investment booms facilitated by globalization. (32)” This shows that due to the international investment and trade many poor countries succeeded and their Poverty rate fell. For example in China, the poverty rate fell 68 percent between 1981 and 2004. This evidence shows that due to the globalization poor countries are improving their country and also poverty has sharply declined. This is another positive impact of …show more content…

Technology has made it a lot easier for people to buy and sell products. These days many people buy things from China because it’s affordable but many multinational companies also wants to sell their products and the only way they could sell their products if they lower the prices of products, because they don’t want to lose their customers to other companies who will give them a product cheaper than other companies. According to the article “Globalization” by Moises Naim, he states that people won’t stop their international trades and investments, because of these international investments and trades people in other countries are able to make a lot of money by selling their products to other countries. For example, Vietnamese artists are able to sell their product in European markets, which is not possible without the international trades. China is able to sell their products in America because their products are cheaper than the products in America. Many of our goods like our strollers, clothing and electronics would be expensive if they were to make them domestically. However, by importing these products from China prices go down. Due to the fact that labor is cheap in China and the product they sell to America still makes Chinese a lot of profit even though they sell it for

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