Globalization: A New Trend

A NEW TREND : GLOBALIZATION

You can wear a t-shirt made in England, and watch a Bollywood film in Turkey. While you are driving a car made in Germany, you can listen your album comes from Japan. Also, you can visit to Spain and eat Chineese food there. These all are possible in today’s world thanks to globalization. Globalization is a term used to describe the process of exchange of ideas, products, culture, resources etc. Namely, it is an international movement to allow to integrate trade, culture, technology between countries. Globalization annihilates the barriers, distances and limits between national economies and encourages open trade. As Rifkin (2003) states, looking back into the history of globalization, it can be seen that the term of globalization has a long history and it can be traced backed to ancient times but in the modern sense of the term, globalization came into more common usage after World War II. The repsentatives of forty-five nations made a plan in order to recover the economy which are damaged from the long-lasted war and they founded IMF and The World Bank. The creation of these two institutions is a crucial milestone in the history of globalization. In the world we live in, globalization is changing and evolving by leaps and bounds and also, it changes our lives irreversibly in economic, social, environmental aspects. Even though it is claimed that globalization has given third wolrd countries an opportunity for developing themselves, its drawbacks to developing countries outweigh its good sides.

First negative impact of globalization on third world countries is health issues. In the article entitled with ‘‘ The Deadly Noodle’’ , it is stated that wi...

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...Besides, in Turkey, it is a popular trend to cook different foods from different cuisines. For example, there are some workshops that teach how to make spagetti, noodle,sushi.

To recap , globalization is a term which refers to the flow of products,opinions, culture among nations. It influences all countries in the world but mostly it has effects on third world countries. Some claim that globalization provides developing countries opportunity to improve their economy, culture, society. However, globalization influences third world countries negatively in terms of culture, economy, society,health,environment. In the article entitled with ‘Poverty and Environmental Degradation, Akin (2002) states that globalization does not reduce the rate of poverty but increases. A certain level of development is necessary to get rid of poverty for developing countries.