The Pros and Cons of Globalization and Localization

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Before I start explaining globalization and localization from my point of view and from what I learned from the article given for the assignment, I would like to define the word.

Globalization is a term to denote that "something" is changing humankind’s preoccupation with territoriality and the traditional arrangement of the state system. Globalization is renders boundaries and identity with the land less salient, which means that it allows people, goods, information, norms, practices, and institutions to move about oblivious to or despite boundaries. It also indicates that something new in the world affairs moves most of the important activities and concerns beyond the national seats of power that have long served as the foundations of economic, political, and social life.

Meanwhile, localization is highlighting borders and intensifying the deep attachments to a place that has potential dominate emotion and reasoning. It is a boundary heightening which inhibit or prevent the movement of people, goods, information, norms, practices, and institutions.

The definitions and explanations of globalization and localization above show the difference between the two of those. They also show the disadvantages and advantages of them. Globalization opens people mind towards the new modern world that lets the opportunity for people's, culture, activities, norms, ideas, services, and currencies to be more modernize. Diplomatically, globalization creates an interaction between countries, or in other words it facilitates the expansion of authority, policies, and interests beyond existing socially constructed territorial boundaries. Economically speaking, globalization contains the enlargement of the operation of production, trade, and in...

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...ments on television when it’s time for the society to change this actually slower the Chinese government’s promotion of upgrading and modernizing the local business environment.

The relative importance of the costs and benefits discussed, some of the things that are gained by globalization fundamentally is important to people’s lives. So, this means that not everyone is able to accept that globalization knowing they still keep their traditional live, and some people even combine that in order to get what is best for them. For me, what you gain from globalization and localization are important because by gaining both you’d get what’s the best for you. For example of my own, as I come from the East Asia, tradition (localization) is still important in the family but as globalization takes place these days, it is my responsibility to get what I think is good for me.

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