Wednesday 14 November 2012

Draft



Globalization
By Adam Pitzel
Globalization is a factor in everyone’s lives today; we might not always notice it but it’s all around us. Pick anything in your room and if you check it is probably not made in Canada. The people in your community are from different parts of the world and even more people speak different languages. This entire world is affected and plays a factor in globalization. Whether it’s on a political scale, an environmental factor, an economic impact or a social impact. The world if affected by globalization through advertisements, clothing, and even the food that we eat. People are starting not to wear their traditional clothing or even speak their own language. Sooner or later the world just might be so influenced by globalization that we might become all as one. Beliefs and values are being changed so many people are influenced every day by globalization. We live in a society today where 70% of all the stuff in a ordinary room will not be made in your home country. All around the world people are evolving slowing but surely into the same culture by the little things like clothing, music choice and way we live. I believe we will all become united under the same ideas and way of life through media and transnational corporations, but that day will be in at least a couple decades away. I do not want to live in a place where we all gain the same collective identity.

Globalization is what keeps the world connected; I believe that globalization has its ups and downs. There are also many ways globalization is expressed. There is social, economic, political, and environmental. Globalization affects everyone as an individual through the clothes you wear and pretty much anything that you see in the room is traded from a different country or made there. Very little of the things in Canada are actually made in Canada most are imported. Another thing that has been affected through globalization is language. All around the world there are so many languages used every day. English and French are the two primary languages in Canada but we are a multi-cultural nation and people from all over the world come to live here. It is full of different races of people all from different cultures. The people that have come to Canada rarely dress in their cultural, clothing.

One of the ways globalization is most represented in our society is through advertisements and sales of products. We are dragged into an advertisement that displays a product either by clothing or food and then the next thing you know is that a bunch of people want to buy it. Now if you think about it lets take McDonald’s for an example they were making a lot of money in the U.S. The people in other countries saw this and they were now open to the idea of a McDonalds being established in their community. Now there are so many of these establishments around the world making a lot of money every day. Another example is that people love to buy Nike clothing, shoes and sports equipment. Now those shoes or whatever you are buying are not being made the way you would probably want to know. They are made and imported from all over the world from people making it for a low pay. People make food that is imported to Canada and sold in your supermarket. Even oil and energy sources are being sold and traded. One of the greatest factors that affects our world today is globalization.

Globalization is reflected in almost everything we use and things we eat and wear one of the things that are affected but globalization is the production of the bananas. Bananas reflect globalization probably more than you would think, and there is a large competition market for bananas. The top three banana companies in the world are Dole, Del Monte, and Chiquita. These banana companies are in major competition with each other. To sell bananas there is a lot of competition but it wasn’t always like that. At one point in history bananas where sold at a ridiculous prices. They were allowed to sell them for whatever price they wanted because they were the only ones that sold them. Now if we look deeper into the banana production we see that bananas are not grown in Canada, so there for they are sold from outside of the country. This is an importation of products to our country. Globalization is all around in so many things even the share of ideas and inventions are a factor in globalization.

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