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Globalization Improved travel and communication networks have the potential to transform the world population into a single, global society. We can now travel across the globe in a matter of hours. The internet enables us to spread ideas and share cultural norms instantly. Many of the products we use every day are produced on the other side of the world. Globalization can be seen as beneficial, but is generally thought of as a more complicated issue. Given the accelerating pace of globalization, what are the implications it could have for humanity? Read and carefully consider these perspectives. Each suggests a particular way of thinking about increasing globalization. Perspective One - As the development of a single world culture becomes a real possibility, we risk losing the diversity that makes life interesting. As people become more similar, the unique elements that identify various cultures will be lost in global melting pot. Perspective Two - The ability to cheaply ship goods across the planet makes necessities and luxuries more affordable to all. Increased product affordability leads to an increase in the quality of life for millions of people globally. Perspective Three - Globalization brings greater interaction between countries, which could lead to more conflict. The more we interact with other cultures, the more our differences and disagreements will be emphasized. It would be better for cultures to be more isolated from one another in order to exist harmoniously. ESSAY TASK WRITE a unified, coherent essay in which you evaluate multiple perspectives on the question of the implications increased globalization may have on humanity. In your essay, be sure to: analyze and evaluate the perspectives given state and develop your own perspective on the issue explain the relationship between your perspective and those given Your perspective may be in full agreement with any of the others, in partial agreement, or wholly different. Whatever the case, support your ideas with logical reasoning and detailed, persuasive examples.

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Globalization is when various facets of society operate at a truly global level rather than locally or regionally. Globalization has been the driving force behind the explosion of wealth that has been occurring all across the planet. Here in the United States we see the consequences of globalization on a developed economy. As the US economy transitions more completely into a service-based economy from an industrial-based economy, labor-intensive jobs naturally migrate to developing and emerging markets where cost of production for manufactured goods is lower.

For international trade and commerce that can mean businesses can operate globally and traditional barriers to commerce thrown up by nation-states don't apply. That means you can put your factories where its most cost effective to place and you can hire talent from developing countries. Nevertheless, the critics will persist, "what about the exploitation? Surely you're not going to defend sweatshops!" Well, I am. Sweatshops are terrible, it's agreed. But, here's the thing they're better than the alternative. If they weren't, they wouldn't exist. No one would work under such conditions if there was a better option. Now, this is the economic defense: sweatshops are often the beginning of surplus income for many people. Surplus income is extremely important in developing economies, as it is only when people begin to save that investment can occur, and it is investment that drives growth.

A drawback might be that since corporations aren't constrained by borders then its hard for any one nation-state to enforce its laws over that corporation without that corporation having an easy way to skirt the law by just doing the same thing in some other nation-state where the activity is permitted. Or if people in country A work in a factory they can't exactly move to country B if the corporation decides to move its factory.

Globalization also means that cultural barriers change and erode. That's great if you're a movie producer who normally only sees distribution in the USA but can now show the movie in Europe and China as well. Culturally, globalization is what the world's idea of tradition, spirtuality, and language is founded on. What makes each country unique in this aspect is what their people created out of the sharing of these traditions and ideas. . Around 60,000 years ago, cumulative cultural adaptation was what propelled modern humans out of Africa in small tribal groups, by enabling us to acquire knowledge and produce technologies suitable to different environments. Eventually these tribes would occupy nearly every environment on Earth.

But if you live in a country in Africa today and see that all the kids in town don't care about older traditions and instead want to listen to American Music and watch French Cinema then you may not like that. Then again, it's easier than ever to share your cultural tradition in Africa with the world at large. Ironically, globalization doesn't seem to foster diversity. Globalization seems to be synonymous with 'Westernization'. Now, I don't think that Westernization is inherently a bad thing but as stated earlier, not every society in the world should be a pastiche of the West because it doesn't have the same effect everywhere. Globalization means everyone's speaking English (not a very efficient language, no offense to the British), wearing suits in hot weather, celebrating Christmas (no offense to Christians, but Christmas shouldn't be for everyone), etc. Even when building sprawling cities, everyone's just copying what the Western countries do. No-one seems to care about being original or asking whether gigantic cities are even necessary and if so, why they are necessary.

In conclusion, globalization does have some negative consequences, particularly for developed nations, however, far fewer people have become poor in the United States than have been raised out of poverty in the rest of the world because of it. Globalization sets up relationships between nations that further stabilize the whole network of humanity

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