“Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology.” In other words, globalization is a worldwide movement towards economic, trade and communication embodiment. Globalization affects everyone in the whole world in one way or another, and it brings us to a common place of interest and links us together.
The video clip “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As3pWXoq_as” gave some examples of wide spread globalization. I loved the stop motion video, especially the zoom out and back on the world. Technology is a huge part of our ever changing society. The first personal computer came out in 1981 by IBM. Can you imagine life without your smart phone and tablet? How would we BLOG?? Another example used in the video was McDonalds. McDonalds has spread worldwide with over 34,000 restaurants in 118 countries. Did you know that McDonald’s opened its first franchise in 1955? That is less than 60 years ago! McDonalds now serves 1% of the world population daily. But globalization is more than technology and a fast food chain; we see it in our currency, our media, our trading, and government policies.
I looked up globalization in the thesaurus and it gave me five words, but two of those words really stuck out, Growth and Development. The world is ever changing, nothing is statue quo, and if we are to keep up in it we have to have knowledge of the international innovations that are beyond our traditions.
Globalization does have pros and cons. An example of a con would be exploitation of child labor to get the prices so low that no one can beat it; where a pro may include the fact that socially we have become more open and tolerant towards each other, and people who live in the other part of the world are not considered aliens. Those are just the “tip of the iceberg”.
Globalization is here to stay.
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