Source interpretation essay

Source Interpretation Assignment

By Eric Pitzel

We don’t make even half of the goods and products in Canada. Doesn’t that affect our identity as Canadians? Our society is changing every day because we are becoming more globalized everyday destroying our individual identities. Shows and broadcasts that were made in America or Canada are now being shown in other countries. People in developing countries grow the bananas that we get in Canada for little money so we will have some globalized food. These are some of the aspect of globalization that we are involved with today. It is a fact that shifting identities, media and transnational corporations are creating culture hybridization and making us lose our individual and our collective identities.

Globalization does affect us individually and collectively because we have our individual identity and our country or towns identity. In the little paragraph the person says that this will unite us for the better but what about our collective identities? If we were all the same it would affect us worldwide because everything would be the same. We would all speak the same language and all have the same shows and identity and beliefs. Also our society would be in a monopoly on all products produced because we would all have the same business providing us with the collective products. Being alike can’t happen because who would come up with all the new ideas? We already are alike in many other ways and I wonder why? There are eight factors of identity and if our cultures and beliefs combine we would all have the same factors and there would be no diversity. The world wouldn't change for the better because we wouldn't have our own identity and beliefs.


In source two the sesame street sign is written in different languages showing that it is a globalized show. Sesame Street is a famous children's show that is shown all around the world and there are different perspectives and ideas on the show. They are not the only media corporation shown around the world many companies shows are globally advertised. Sesame Street is involved with two aspects of globalization economic and social. This TV broadcast presents smart ways to have fun and is a great learning experience for kids of early ages. The economic globalization aspect is created by the advertisements at commercial break and the products people sell to influence the show. It’s not just shows but also all media like internet phones and gaming consoles. I think that if the shows that are shown in North America get shown in other parts of the world it will take our identity and try to teach other countries about it. If this is true our society will eventually have the same media.


Source three is a picture and paragraph of the Chiquita banana. This banana company sells about 25% of Canada’s bananas, which is a lot of bananas. There are all the globalization factors affecting the banana trade. There are human rights violated in the production of the banana environmental and political. The people working in the felids will be sprayed with pesticides because they are trying to prevent disease to the bananas exposing them to harmful chemicals. Bananas are not grown in Canada so we need to get them from other places around the world. There are many jobs created through the production of bananas. The economic and social factors are affected by the working conditions of the people and what types of discussion is created by it. The bananas are the lowest priced fruit in Canada so that means they can’t pay their workers as much because there is less money created so the people in developing countries get paid for little money in long hours and sometimes children even work. Globalization affecting banana is producing it will unite us all to have the same bananas and not have our own countries food or identity.

Globalization affects all of us around the world and even everybody at home. Our identity collectively and individually is affected by the choices we make as ourselves and our country. Even media is globalized soon what will we have to keep to ourselves? Our food production is also placed under the category of globalization. Soon our society will be all globalized but not for the better but for the worse because soon we will not even have our own individual identities and able to make individual choices.