Did you know that India is
the fastest growing internet audience in the world in 2006 they grew by 33%. How
has Globalization affected our modern world? For negative or positive, people
have been disagreeing with one another for a long time about this subject.
Globalization has made us have more of a collective identity. Though many
people think of globalization as a good thing they may not realized some of the
negative effects that it causes. Globalization takes away from tradition
culture and penalizes banana farmers and is converting the whole world to the
North American ideology. For the better or the worse that is for you to decide.
How has globalization affected our world past, present and future?
Globalization started a long time ago; there is no exact date but large travel started on the silk road when goods were transferred between India and England. This kind of travel and trade has affected the way we live today and might I add for the worse. Today you can sit on a couch that was made in China but assembled in Thailand while you are on a computer that was designed in Germany while you eat a banana from Guatemala. This is present day Globalization and it is making people all over the world more and more the same. How am I supposed to keep my culture and history when more and more globalization takes over? Soon we will all be the same people, with the same culture, religion, and one human identity.
TV programs have spread all over the world such as Sesame Street, Simpsons, and Family Guy. These TV shows are all created in the United States and these shows and ideas are being shown all over the world. North American ideology is being transported all over the world. Young children are slowly being brainwashed to think a certain way. Media convergence can affect large amounts of people. Companies can send out mass advertisements in the form of magazines, TV commercials, poster, movies, and the internet. Websites such as Facebook and Twitter are also based out of the United States. Large companies such as these can persuade people to think what they want. People in India have been affected drastically by media convergence. For example, Indian women are no longer wearing their traditional clothing, because they are influenced by American television shows such as MTV.
When you go to a grocery store, there are typically three main brands of bananas. Most people wouldn't support large banana companies if they knew the truth about them. Chiquita Bananas hire young children that are usually paid a very small wage or no wage whatsoever. They also spray chemicals to protect the plants from insects even when there are workers in the fields. If you go to a grocery store anywhere in the world you will find one of the major three banana companies, Chiquita, Dole, or Del Monte . These three companies control the majority of the banana industry. This is bringing our world closer together, under a false umbrella and unfair buying power between countries on unequal footing. It is harmful to the free market economy that our society was built. It is the banana farmers that are really losing out on this deal. The workers toll long laborous hours for minimal wage, then the large corporations buy the bananas in bulk for dirt cheap, and then they sell them all over the world for super inflated prices. It is our crave and want that is hurting local farmers and increasing the profit of American made millionaire companies. So think about that the next time you bite into a banana.
The overall impact of globalization is the shrinking of our worlds and melding of cultures into one universal component. With mass media affecting our thoughts and actions on so many levels, it is impossible to believe anyone will be left untouched by it. As well, the unfair advantage of globalization gives power and profit to the educated business owners while taking all of that away from the labourers and farmers in poor countries. It will be some time before our thoughts and reactions are capable of processing the information being forced on us by social media.
How has globalization affected our world past, present and future?
Globalization started a long time ago; there is no exact date but large travel started on the silk road when goods were transferred between India and England. This kind of travel and trade has affected the way we live today and might I add for the worse. Today you can sit on a couch that was made in China but assembled in Thailand while you are on a computer that was designed in Germany while you eat a banana from Guatemala. This is present day Globalization and it is making people all over the world more and more the same. How am I supposed to keep my culture and history when more and more globalization takes over? Soon we will all be the same people, with the same culture, religion, and one human identity.
TV programs have spread all over the world such as Sesame Street, Simpsons, and Family Guy. These TV shows are all created in the United States and these shows and ideas are being shown all over the world. North American ideology is being transported all over the world. Young children are slowly being brainwashed to think a certain way. Media convergence can affect large amounts of people. Companies can send out mass advertisements in the form of magazines, TV commercials, poster, movies, and the internet. Websites such as Facebook and Twitter are also based out of the United States. Large companies such as these can persuade people to think what they want. People in India have been affected drastically by media convergence. For example, Indian women are no longer wearing their traditional clothing, because they are influenced by American television shows such as MTV.
When you go to a grocery store, there are typically three main brands of bananas. Most people wouldn't support large banana companies if they knew the truth about them. Chiquita Bananas hire young children that are usually paid a very small wage or no wage whatsoever. They also spray chemicals to protect the plants from insects even when there are workers in the fields. If you go to a grocery store anywhere in the world you will find one of the major three banana companies, Chiquita, Dole, or Del Monte . These three companies control the majority of the banana industry. This is bringing our world closer together, under a false umbrella and unfair buying power between countries on unequal footing. It is harmful to the free market economy that our society was built. It is the banana farmers that are really losing out on this deal. The workers toll long laborous hours for minimal wage, then the large corporations buy the bananas in bulk for dirt cheap, and then they sell them all over the world for super inflated prices. It is our crave and want that is hurting local farmers and increasing the profit of American made millionaire companies. So think about that the next time you bite into a banana.
The overall impact of globalization is the shrinking of our worlds and melding of cultures into one universal component. With mass media affecting our thoughts and actions on so many levels, it is impossible to believe anyone will be left untouched by it. As well, the unfair advantage of globalization gives power and profit to the educated business owners while taking all of that away from the labourers and farmers in poor countries. It will be some time before our thoughts and reactions are capable of processing the information being forced on us by social media.
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