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 Globalization

Alden Mueller

Globalization, can be good and it can be bad for us. There are many opinions on this topic. Some say that its a great thing, but others think its changing us in the wrong ways. I agree with that its a bad thing. Being an individual is very important because you can be who you want to be. With globalization happening we are following a path paved to a collective group. In this essay I will be discussing the topics on Identity, Media, and the Chiquita banana and what globalization has to do with them.

Globalization affects us individually and collectively. Eventually becoming more of a collective group then an individual; one culture, one world. If this was to happen it would be easy to communicate with people around the world. Trading with different cultures would be a breeze. The problem is that we would all be robots with no difference between us. The eight facts of Identity, traditions, religion, arts, role modeling, relationship to the land, ideological befits, language, attire, will be affected if Globalization doesn’t slow down or stop all together. Each of these factors will be affected in some way. Traditions from the cultures that we have now would disappear because we would all have the same traditions, an example being christmas. Art and the artists will think a like and the creative idea thinking would be hurt by Globalization.

In the second source there is a picture of the iconic Sesame Street logos. On the sign there are different languages. What it’s saying is that something that started in the U.S is now in other countries in their language, a form of culture contact . The media has a huge impact on us as people, our views can be changed on a topic quick and easy.  Media plays a big part in our society. We watch the news, documentaries, anything and everything on television. It also depends on which station you watch because they each have a different opinion on what you should think about a topic. They are being bias about what they think is important. And if you are a person that only watches one channel your views can be completely different then someone that watches another. With this kinda of bias, we can we told one thing and believe it even though it can be of someones views who believes that its a bad thing. Even when its good for us as a person. If Globalization is happening this wont be around anymore because people are going  to want on answer not this or that. We will all want the same thing because we will be one person.

The Chiquita brand of bananas says that it’s the best banana you can buy. They check it over six times and then it goes into wooden boxes that are strong and protective before it leaves the tropics. The person that wrote this source is showing that they do everything so when you go buy a banana at a store it will be perfect. Though, they are leaving out an important part. Who picks the bananas? How much are these people paid? Are their working conditions good? The answers to these questions are no. THe people that worked in these banana farms did not get the proper safety equipment to work in these conditions. They would be working on day and there would be a airplane that would fly over and spray pesticide. This pesticide would get into their lungs and cause a bunch of different health problems. Cancer was a big part of their life. If this sort of thing would happen in Canada people would be getting in a lot of trouble. The United Fruit Company for example, sure they provided 40 000 jobs and investments up to $60 million, but they ended up to be a monopoly. They owned the telephone, and the telegraph, and almost every mile of rail road in the whole country. So, if you wanted to make a phone call it would have to go through the banana company. In order to import something from the sea; it would have to go through the banana company because they owed that too. The UFC was one big monopoly, they even owed part of the government.

All these topics have something in common, Identity. Globalization is changing us slowly, but surely. It affects us as a whole and ourselves as individual. The media is not helping with this. It is showing us trends, new products, news coverage and more. IF we don't do anything to stop this say good by to being an individual, your religion, and many more things because soon we will be one person.

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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.

Globalization is everywhere and in our society we will never get away from it. Globalization has been in our lives for a long time from the time of the Silk Road and even before that. This is called historic globalization. We are so connected as a world today as in Facebook you can log in even on a mobile device in seconds and start chatting with someone on the other side of the world. With the fast ways of sharing ideas and products today we are slowly becoming more like one another. Cultures and religion are becoming less visible nowadays and it is rare to see anyone in Canada wearing clothing that supports there region or culture our ideological beliefs are becoming less evident. But I know globalization will never stop it will always be around no matter what we do. We all just need to know how to not use it to take advantage of people but to help us improve as a nation and to bring us all together and maybe one day one culture one world.

Source Interpretation Essay- Final

Social 10-1                                                                           Jeri Blackmore

Related Issue 1

Source Interpretation Written Assignment

               

            All over the world media is spreading globalization through any community to every individual.  Ideas are being spread faster than ever through technology to countries everywhere.  I think that in time as cultures become more and more alike globalization will kill the individuality of the world.  Transnational corporations are currently in power over trading and media convergence resulting in the conglomeration of smaller companies.  Western culture is vastly spreading far across the world reaching the Eastern coast.  Should our society revert back to its former individualism or continue to shift into a collective identity?

            As media convergence controls what society sees it strictly limits the information the public is receiving.  Alliances made through trade agreements allow the goods we receive to travel to various regions around the word.  I agree with source one in its claims that constant growing globalization and the rise of transnational corporations will universalize our culture into a collective society.  Individual beliefs will travel and unite the world, where everyone is collectively the same and individualism is rare.  

            Sesame Street (as seen in source two) is a popular children’s television program originating in North America that can now be seen all over the world.  Made into various languages children across the globe are now familiarized with the characters, convergence of media is shaping their thought pattern.  Conglomeration is a factor as the smaller programming will never be as popular as the larger corporations and businesses.  If all our interests are the same, interactions between people of different countries will have minimal differences. 

            When going to the grocery store, the last thought on a persons’ mind is the origin of the product being bought.  Many foods such as bananas are not local to Canada and must be shipped in from other countries.  Local farmers cannot compete with the large fruit corporation as they offer extensive variety and low cost due to the cheap labour and little to no employer regulations.  Top brands like Del Monte, Dole, and Chiquita are in association with the World Trade Organization which has previously been confronted with undermining national laws that have protected workers, environments, community economies, safety and health of the public.  The best way to keep individualism and ensure humane practices have been used is to buy fresh local fruit as often as possible and to be informed as to where food is originating and the circumstances around it. 

            Through technology and the modernization of society globalization is spreading faster than ever.  Traditions, beliefs, and idealism are being lost as entire cultures are falling victim to the mainstream transnational brands and corporations.  As the cultures once did stand unique to one another it would be a shame for cultural hybridization to remold what once stood as individualized ways of living.  I think that globalization is fortunate to a certain extent until it takes away from culture.