Globalization: fiche de révision

What is globalization?

• complicated process
• definition changes depending on the field concerned: economy, society, and politics : many dimensions
• communications are bettered:

• People can travel around the world
• Money/ dollar travels faster
• knowledge is shared more easily by the Internet

• Transnational companies

• Migrants workers/ less paid increasing profits
• trade is the ultimate goal in a globalized economy
• globalized culture mainly from the US

Globalization is great for trade, inaction, and travel, the economic development, technology, production, and distribution

globalization is not great in an ethics, human rights, ecological, economical side, it relocates factories to countries where the workforce is cheaper and they are abused and less paid

The top ten TNCs in the world are mainly companies in the car, new technologies, food, energy, online trades or pharmaceutical.

To understand that kind of processes, we need examples, as New York City, which is, in certain parts, completely globalized.

The pros and cons are numerous:

• it is favorable for the economy: definitely makes the world connects even more with the different actors of them.
• but what about the ethical part ?

We may take the example of kids working in poor countries: Afghanistan, and who are struggling because they create plenty of things, but at the price of their liberty and human dignity:

They are barely not paid, even though they gotta work almost every day,

The conditions are terrible, we couldn’t imagine working with them in developed countries.

Also, the question could be: are we going to stay blind and keep consuming ?

...