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Globalization
Learning Target
• What is the meaning of “Globalization”?
Question
• What is Globalization?
Globalization
• Globalization is a difficult term to define
because it has come to mean so many things.
Definition
• Globalization refers to the trend toward
countries joining together economically,
through education, society and politics, and
viewing themselves not only through their
national identity but also as part of the world
as a whole.
Examples
• Globalization
refers to
countries
joining together
economically
Examples
• Globalizatio
n refers to
countries
joining
together
through
education.
Example
• Globalization refers to countries joining together
through society and politics
Example
• Globalization
refers to
countries joining
and viewing
themselves not
only through
their national
identity but also
as part of the
world as a whole
• In your own words, summarize what
Globalization is.
• There are many
good arguments
for Globalization
and many good
arguments
against it.
• Question:
– What are some reasons for Globalization?
Pro-Globalization
• It is reducing poverty worldwide.
• It is allowing access to technology in
developing countries.
• It promotes world peace.
• It has benefited women and children’s rights.
• It raises life expectancy.
Pro-Globalism
• Globalization describes a process by which
regional economies, societies, and cultures
have become integrated through a global
network of communication, transportation,
and trade.
Pro-Globalism
• It is about breaking
down national
barriers and
increasing contact
and interaction
between nations.
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Obama and Russian
President Medvedev
Anti-Globalism
• Arguments against globalization are likely to
come from people or nations who wish to
resist trends in the global society.
Anti-Globalization
• For instance, a Fundamentalist Islamic country
may resist globalization because they see it as
equivalent to westernization—weakening the
religious strength of a country and exposing its
people to corrupting ideas.
McDonalds next to the Ancient Egyptian temple ruins
at Luxor
Anti-Globalization
• Similarly, globalization may be feared or a
matter of a concern to any country with
strong isolationist policies.
• In the US, much of the arguments for resisting
globalization come from conservative groups.
• Some people worry about how certain trends,
such as outsourcing, might affect the nation.
Concern exists that while outsourcing might
benefit a nation which gets jobs, this takes
jobs from the country or company that
outsources. In this way, though the economy
of the world is more globalized, the economy
of an individual nation might suffer.
Outsourcing Jobs
• Summarize the reasons both for AND against
Globalization.
Learning Target
• What makes an issue Global?
• Question: What are some examples of
Globalization?
• Globalization is not new. For thousands of
years, people—and, later, corporations—have
been buying from and selling to each other in
lands at great distances, such as through the
famed Silk Road across Central Asia that
connected China and Europe during the
Middle Ages.
Silk Road
Defining a global issue
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• What makes an issue “global”?
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– Global Issues Are:
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Persistent or long-acting
Trans-national or trans-boundary
Affects large numbers of people
An underlying cause of events
Connected to other issues meeting these criteria
• Example:
– Global Warming is a great example of a global
issue that meets the criteria of a Global Issue.
Global Warming
• Persists, or is
long acting:
– Because
Global
Warming
impacts the
atmosphere,
it may take
years, or even
decades to be
fully felt.
Global Warming
• Is Transnational,
or Transboundary:
– Its effects are felt
regardless to
national
boundaries.
• We feel the
affects of
pollution from
China, or Russia
Global Warming
• Affects large
numbers of
people:
– The entire
population of
the world
feels the
affect of
Global
Warming.
Global Warming
• Is an underlying
cause of events:
– It impacts the
entire world by
changing rain
patterns to cause
desertification, crop
failures, diminished
water supplies,
changing
temperatures and
ocean levels.
Global Warming
• Is connected to other
issues that meet these
criteria:
– Efforts to slow Global
Warming could positively
affect many other issues
such as food security and
refugee issues related to
climate change. It can also
affect national economies
for better or worse.
• Some other examples of Globalization around
the world
• If you look at the tag on your shirt, chances are you
would see that it was made in a country other than
the one in which you sit right now. What's more,
before it reached your closet, this shirt could have
very well been made with Chinese cotton sewed by
Thai hands, shipped across the Pacific on a French
freighter crewed by Spaniards to a Los Angeles
harbor. This international exchange is just one
example of globalization, a process that has
everything to do with geography.
American Culture & Business
The Internet
• Jobs
McWorld