How Globalization Affects the World

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Globalization 3.0

Globalization has been long argued to be the cause of many problems within the world, while this is true it is also incorrect at the same time creating a paradox that takes careful analytical examination. In the world we live in today, we are in what some have called the third Globalization event of humanity. What is globalization and how does this affect the world as a whole? Through the analysis of text covered in class and outside readings, I will attempt to answer this and explain how globalization is affecting the world, and what it will mean in the long term for humanity and society as a whole.

Taking the example of globalization as used in the work of Mr. Barber we can see that the globalization that is occurring at this period in time is not the same as it has been in previous generations or even periods of advancement in prior terms of globalization. We are experiencing a corporatizing of the world as we know it in this new era of globalization, where in the past it was just a major joining of countries or ideas to better serve one another in information or economics it is now a corporate juncture to gather as much financial benefit as possible by eliminating all small independent companies and shops. We are experiencing a “McWorld” as Barber would say. This implies a joining of multinational organizations to further their profits by expanding and conglomerating into a monopoly simultaneously. The argument he provides is that there are two types of societies in the modern world, those who have joined onto the “McWorld” model and those who have not, “Jihad”. While the term Jihad has traditional implications in religion, Muslim, it is only defined as a struggle within oneself to b...

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... decide whether we are content with the ability to have anything and everything at the touch of our fingertips as we lose our self-identity and freedoms to corporations and the powers they are able to control with lobbying and financing of brutal regimes. Alternatively, will we adopt a new way of living that is more ecofriendly, cultural independent, and ultimately is more difficult? I for one say we need less information technology and dependence of here and now life style and save our cultures, environment, and society as a whole by not engaging in big corporations purchases and more buy local policy to help out our communities before it is a scenario where in we face total annihilation at the hands of big governments and corporations that seek to undermind the public and destroy our planet for long term survival by bringing us all “A little closer together.”

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