La globalisation

Globalization is like seeing the world as once global market. Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. Indeed, the document we will present you has a link with globalization.

This document is a caricature. This document represents a mother with her soon shopping, with a retailer showing them a product. It is a shirt with written on it: made in Bangladesh. The woman and the kid are looking really small next to the retailer. Indeed all around them we can see all sort of placards with brands names on it like H&M, Gap, Benetton, and Walmart and also some with “sale” written on it or “low low prices”.

The meaning of all of this is that now everything we buy, like clothes isn’t made anymore in our countries but it is made in countries where it is cheaper to produce, like in Bangladesh, as we can see it written on the shirt the retailer is showing to the woman.

Moreover, what he is saying to convice his client to buy the shirt is absolutely horrible. “Our pre-washed jeans are a bargain but our pre-soaked-in blood t-shirt are an absolute steal”; In fact he is saying that first the jeans he sells are a good deal, which is alright, but what shocks us, is the fact the he is saying that the shirts he wants to sell are pre-soaked in blood. That means that the working conditions for those who make the shirts in those developing countries are really bad.

Furthermore, the placard with “sale” or “low low prices” written on them, mean that retailers, like the one on the drawing, can sell items at really low prices because the production cost wasn’t expensive at all, and even if they sale it a lower prices they can still make enough money, and the workers abroad are low-paid.

Even more, the brands that are represent on the cartoon, symbolize a good exemple for brands that abuse of this system, that don’t respect men’s rights most of the time. For instance let’s take the exemple of Walmart which is represents on the left side of the cartoon. Walmart, is an American multinational retailing corporation that operates as a chain of hypermarkets, discount department stores, and grocery stores. It is an international brand which has stores in many countries of the world. Although Walmart is one of those brands, like the others shown in the cartoon, that fabrics it products in countries like India or Bangladesh, or else where it is cheaper to product.

Finally, concerning what the retailer says, it is pretty bad. Indeed, he says that the jeans he sells are pre-washed so they are a bargain which means it is a good deal, but he says that the shirts he sells are pre-soaked in blood so they are a steal which means he sells them at a really cheap price. What all of this means is that where the clothes, it could be the t-shirt or the jeans or anything, are made in really bad conditions. It is too much to say that they are pre-soaked in blood, but it translates that workers who are making them are doing a hard and bad work in bad conditions. Plus saying that they sell the clothes at cheap prices means that the production price must have been even cheaper.

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