Sources Essay
Shayla Derr
Globalization is the
interaction through people, politics, goods and services around the world. Have you ever noticed how the everyday products we use, are hardly ever made in Canada? Everyday, globalization affects us in many ways. But
is our globalization also making us become one culture altogether? Our media,
ideas, opinions, cultural contact and companies are affecting the world daily. The
way and direction our globalization is moving, we could be looking at not
having our own identities, but following each other’s.
According to source one, globalization doesn’t just affect us individually,
but collectively. And if we keep on spreading our culture, traditions, economic
values etc. we could be achieving more collective identity and less individual.
To a certain content I agree that this would be a good change, if we became one
whole. It would decrease racial discrimination and marginalization. We would
all be the same, have the same, traditions, cultures and practices. It would
decrease the amount of world issues because we would believe what everybody
else did. We could help environmental issues together and politics would easier
because there would be fewer problems. But there are many issues that could come with becoming together as one. I dislike that we are becoming one culture for the following reasons. First of all, we would all be the same. We wouldn’t have our own
opinions since we all are following each other. And diversity would be limited. What the government wanted us to believe, we would because we wouldn’t have any
other choices due to being one culture. We would basically all be robots. Our
media is a huge contribution to this.
The hit kids show “Sesame Street” is a Western show. But in source
two, the logo that is shown, is written in Eastern world language. This means
that our media is spreading east. Along with our media, our beliefs, traditions
and culture is trickling into the eastern part of the world. This connects us
and can create cultural contact. We are able to fly and can meet people and
countries. Easy as that. Our amount of media and how fast it spreads could
easily be a step towards becoming one culture and becoming one world. Our media
affects the Eastern people of the world because it revolves around our ideas and opinions.
“This seal outside means the best inside.” The Chiquita brand of
bananas came out with this advertisement. Stating that this companies bananas are
some of the best bananas you can buy. And bananas happen to be the 2nd
most popular fruit in Canada, with apples taking top. Chiquita owns farms in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras,
and Panama. But Chiquita bananas are not all cut out good as they say they
are. They do not treat their workers fair. The workers are paid very poorly; in
fact, children will often work with their parents so their parents can get the
required amount of bananas the Chiquita banana owners have requested. The
company is also spraying the banana crops while the employees are working in
them. They spray pesticides to keep the bugs from eating the bananas, but they
are not protecting their employees. This spray is causing the employees health
issues and making them sterile. The Chiquita Company is also slashing and
burning down forests. This means they are cutting down trees, and then setting
fire to the stumps. They are doing this for the banana crops. If our demand for bananas weren’t so
high, the Chiquita Company wouldn’t be able to succeed these terrible actions.
Through globalization, all these situations are happening. We are
closer to becoming united and becoming one world all together. Our daily
growing media affects this. And our media has helped us recognize issues that
we would have never known without it.
The amount of cultural contact over the years has increased. We have
many benefits now than we have ever had. We have access to media and it helps
us realize what is going on in the world. This is a good thing, but the amount
of media has connected us for years. More and more over the years.
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