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I just wanted to write something, so I desided to write abit about Globalisation
WARNING: English is not my first language(!)
What is Globalisation?
Globalisation is the system of interraction among the countries of the world in order to develop the global economy, and it is one of the most debated issues of today. There are people demonstrating against it because some companies are dominant in the global market, because pollution is becoming greater than mother earth can handle, etc. But, there are people supporting globalisation; some think it will get rid of poverty and give equality to all people on Earth.
One of the most important part of globalisation is that it has made more work available for the people; the poor are able to work abroad, more people GET work at all and it has expanded the global market. Another part of globalisation is the long-term effects it's had on growing human rights and encouraging democracy. Focus on fighting terrorism and dictatorship have also grown strong, especially in the western world. But there are also downsides to globalisation.
When globalisation first started, all the countries didn't just enter the "globalisation shuttle"; it was only the greatest countries like China, USA, Russia etc. that was among the first countries to start expanding outside their borders . The effect this had was that the great companies in got a "head start". While they have grown strong and mighty and expanded outside their borders, the smaller and poorer companies have been narrowed down to their own country, maybe even their own county. You can say that the great companies are at the top of the "food chain of industries".
Great companies that has established themselves in Third World countries haven't made decent working conditions for their workers and are also giving them lesser wages than they would have done otherless. The outcome of this is cheaper products, but the side effects are bad. Cheaper products leads to more consumption, and when the cheap products are items that are fuelled by petrol or electricity, it leads to more polution.
My thougths on globalisation:
I think it is necessary to grow globalisation. I think it will decrease poverty and give more wealth to the poor countries on this planet. More wealth will affect society positivly because the people most likely won't be upset and, depending on where you are living, give more values to the local area, like a shopping center or a hospital. But the downside of this is, of course, pollution. Unless some genious invents some kind of technology that decreases the amount of pollution to such a degree that it's possible to increase globalisation and decrease pollution, I don't think it's possible to grow globalisation. If we do so, at worst, I think our precious earth will slowly become a polluted wasteland. We should rather wait for the right technology IMO.
What are your thoughts on this subject? Have globalisation affected your country or local area?
Thank you for reading my post 
 
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Globalization is more than economy, culture is being exchanged, too. Your definitions and hypothesis are flawed to say the least.
I don't get how "Russia" (aka. UdSSR) was part of "the globalization" as pioneers with the cold war and everything before the late 80es. I also don't see how human rights have been improved or how there is a fight against poverty on a big scale. Also, I don't agree with the theses that workers can now "work abroad", most scenarios predicted that wealthy nations would lose workers, since "the big corporations" could get their products done in the 2nd/3rd world countries for less money (even if this doesn't seem to be the case).
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yeah i miss writing high school papers too.
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On September 10 2012 23:05 ParkwayDrive wrote:
yeah i miss writing high school papers too.
That seems pretty rude. Allow people to educate themselves and ask for advice.
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My area was affected by globalisation since the massive immigration of religious refugees since the 1600's, able to get there because france and germany had decent roads. Another effect is the colonisation of modern day Indonesia where my great-great grandfather was captain during the Atjeh war, while still staying in touch with the homeland. I have his cuff links, with Dutch-indie art, pure silver and all that.
My father would become a sailor to avoid military service (child of the 60-70's) and bring home souvenirs like a chessboard from I think Hong Kong. I, using IRC, was in better contact with some internet friends over in Finland than I was in my hometown, technically I'm still the least globalised of the family I guess.
I guess it depends on your meaning of globalisation, you can have it start with the train, the age of exploration, the invention of writing, paper, papyrus, the colonisation period, the invention of the radio, television, internet. Whatever floats your boat, which is another nice starting point .
Edit: When you talk about globalisation in terms of companies, try the east indie compagnie, the first company to have shareholders, a presence all over the world and massive social implications (again 1600s, but I'm biased like that).
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Globalisation in Indonesia, it's happening, everyone has some modern gadget one way or the other (I have an iPad my self ^.^), but I'm scared that our culture is gonna get taken away piecemeal, like the Tari Pendet (Pendet Dance) which was claimed by Malaysia, it does have its benefits though and I love it.
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If you're going to write a blog on globalization then I think you need to do more research, and write a little more. This is barely anything more than a definition of the word. Give me some history, some facts, something I can use than loose indications and what is mostly opinion. Check out that China blog for a template and try a little harder.
Not to discourage you or anything, but I was really hoping for a lot more than this when I clicked on the title. You can do, just put some more effort in!
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Globalisation drives all export driven economies. Korea dragging itself out of poverty from the 60's onwards and the Asian tigers in general are great advocates of globalisation.
China embracing financial, liberal capitalism (whilst maintaining a communist social mandate) show's it's power. China and India's economic booms will drag more people out of poverty in the shortest period of time in the history of the world. The western financial powerhouses have the potential to use the West's demand to drag their own wealth up (like the west) and create welfare states which learn from the mistakes of the West. Without globalisation it would be hard to imagine China and co having the markets to fuel it's current growth and beyond that, the historical appreciation of the west's mistakes to attempt to go one better.
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Globalisation is going to obliterate economies and create a wealth gap so vast that it cannot end in anything less than revolution.
People in first world countries simply cannot compete with people that are willing to work 12 hour shifts without benefits for not even 1/5th of their wage.
Manual labor will be shifted out towards poor countries, companies will pocket the profit they make on labour cuts, first-world countries cannot compete without destroying minimal incomes.
The cold hard truth is that not everyone is smart enough to go to school, and for those people, labour jobs are a must.
It won't be the Chinese either, to reap the benefit of this cheap labour. Once the people start getting richer, or demanding worker rights, the production will get shifted towards countries where people don't demand as much.
Globalisation, for all the good things that it brings, will, in the long run, destroy the working class. The working class will either vanish, replaced with a leeching class that cannot do any work, nor sustain themselves, or they will receive cuts in benefits and pay that will leave them so poor that neither they, nor their children, will ever earn enough to escape the social immobility.
I'm as pro-capitalist as it can get, but global free trade will lower the quality of life for the vast majority of the world. At that point I have to ask myself what is more important, ideology, or practicality?
The world should be split into trade-blocs. This will allow governments to manipulate taxes to keep some degree of manual labour in their country.
To let global trade run free is to condemn an entire section of the population to the status of leechers and beggars.
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