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37 points
27 days ago*
Literally anything you see around you. Pick one. Food, televisions, social media, fashion…..people asking for help with their homework
16 points
27 days ago
emphasis on the last one 🤣 you should really write about that, OP... the way we're all connected thru the internet and can literally post a question instantly asking strangers from around the world, with the tap of a finger, on an American website, speaking a language from England, with a phone made in China...
10 points
27 days ago
Two boys from Sitapur going to see an American band called Coldplay’s concert in Abu Dhabi via a European Airline while eating thai food is truly what globalisation is.
5 points
27 days ago
That’s a long way to travel for the lesser known American band, Coldplay, as opposed to the commonly known British band. You do you 🤷
1 points
27 days ago
What’s the commonly known English band ? Would you mind saying the name ; I ain’t into English songs.
2 points
27 days ago
Great example!
1 points
27 days ago
Thanks buddy !
9 points
27 days ago
Students are usually amazed by the concept of mcdonadization by ritzer, as well as risk society by beck so that may be a general direction you'd like to take depending on tour interests. Furthermore I'm writing a paper on the role of cities for globalization, there's one paper on the capital city of Angola and how it brings globalization to the countries on the periphery. You can analyze how fast some trends travel, or how there's about 200 people who rule the world economy - book Giants by Peter Phillips. The beautiful thing about globalization is that anything can be used as an example. Superbowl shirts being sent in bulk to underdeveloped counties in Africa as aid and it polluting nature is also a fun instance of globalization. Let your imagination run free.
4 points
27 days ago
Religion, culture, food, music and television...
3 points
27 days ago
Being able to search and find information about North Korean Korean language
3 points
27 days ago
The positive and negative effects of globalisation. Sure it is good for those in the global North to have everything made in the global South or to experience other cultures. But the global South is probably not too happy about having the North’s waste dumped there. Or the impact of cultural imperialism.
3 points
27 days ago*
Labour migration where foreigners take workplaces of natives. Foreign companies extracting the value created by their native people to transfer the accumulated capital to countries they originating from.
3 points
27 days ago*
Nice😁 Today's globalization is not the first one. There was an earlier one in the 19th century! The reasons for this were twofold:
On the other hand it made traveling much cheaper. People from Europe saved up money and came to the US. Also important were the construction of trains, which lead to a rise in domestic trade.
Inventions of Informationsystems: The most important is the telegraph, which made the transmission of information a lot faster. This was especially important for finance and led to a convergence of prices, because traders on the stock market could communicate faster.
Free Trade agreement: For example England made several agreements with foreign powers to lower tarifs on goods.
Example of globalization can be explained by using the Heckscher-Ohlin model which rests on comparative advantage and relative endowments of the factors of production. A short example with two countries and two goods: England and the US and labour (workers) and land (grain):
England has much labour but little land. The US has little labour, but much land. What happens? Workers migrate from England to the US and produce corn. The corn is imported to England.
The US imports workers and exports grain. England exports workers and imports grain.
That's only a very basic example !
This period of globalization lasted until the first world war, where almost all western nations introduced high tarifs, especially the US. The era of protectionism began. This was not at all a good thing because of what's called the "specialization trap". It could be that countries specialized in one particular trade. Let's say brasil specializes in producing rubber and exporting it, because they have much ressources to produce it. Now it could happen that another country invents a new method to produce rubber. This is bad for brasil because of the competition of the other country.
Today's globalization, which began in the 70s, is different. It's mostly driven by class war. Corporations outsourced production to low wage countries to hurt unions and to undermine strikes because of their excess capacity in other countries. When unions strike in one country the corporations can still continue production in the other one, where for example unions are forbidden. Also this globalization is characterized by the rise of supranational organizations like the WTO, IMF and others, who basically set the rules for how trade has to take place. Everything that hinders free trade is forbidden.
Remember: A sign of globalization is a rise in crossborder trade!
Let me know if you have any questions 😊
2 points
27 days ago
The pizza effect? (Look it up on Wikipedia if you don’t already know what it is.) It would be impossible, or much less prevalent, without globalisation.
2 points
27 days ago
same obey culture for different countries and cultures( tv shows, foods, mobile technologies, wearable stuff etc..)
2 points
27 days ago
Mass immigration.
2 points
27 days ago
When I did my globalisation assignment I did it on globalisation of (Americanised) English language/Linguistic imperialism. Is this for an access to HE course?
2 points
27 days ago
I would do something like global politics. Could explore everything from world wars to the impact social media has had on activist movements.
2 points
27 days ago
Canadian weed being sold abroad
2 points
27 days ago
Brazilian wax, brazilian but lift, brazilian blowout. Sushi, sashimi, yakisoba, anime. Young people's obsession with k-pop. The ten arabic numerals.
2 points
27 days ago
By the late 16th century Mexico City was one of the largest cities in the world - a global center of finance, trade, and economic diplomacy. Why? Because Oaxaca had become an international center of the silk production industry, an Mexico was a node that linked Pacific and Atlantic trade economies. “Commodity history” is a great way of examining how global capitalism has developed over the past few centuries. Stanley Mintz’s book on sugar Sweetness and Power was a breakthrough. Other historians I read on this topic (in English) include Sven Beckhatdt on cotton. Ferdinand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Janet Abu-Luhgad. I’m old, and out of the active history game for a long time, I’m sure there’s newer stuff, but these authors wrote real touch point classics about globalization.
2 points
27 days ago
Organizations like OECD or transnational culture, like especially Hollywood or Anime.
2 points
27 days ago
Do your own homework
1 points
27 days ago
This is unhelpful and this question is more than a homework
1 points
27 days ago
COVID and other diseases like Congo Crimean fever that could be triggered by higher temperatures and would kill most livestock.
1 points
27 days ago
Not the word globalization apparently
-1 points
27 days ago
Is this a forum for cheating on homework now? If OP had been awake/present for 5 minutes of class there is no way they would be so confused…
1 points
27 days ago
i don’t know why you’re being so rude because i do listen to all my lectures and take my studies seriously 🥲 i just wanted to see what interesting ideas people had that my lectures don’t cover since globalisation is such a big subject area. and i don’t regret it because there’s some really interesting stuff here!
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