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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.

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Social 10-1                                                                           Jeri Blackmore

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            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.

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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. 

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News broadcasts across our country and across our globe all have one thing in common; globalization. You cannot watch an hour of news without coming across an important globalization story, possible affecting your way of life. Like the recent hurricane Sandy; though not directly affecting us through weather; could eventually affect us through trade. Globalization is the interaction of people, politics, goods and services around the world, and there is no question that globalization is uniting us and converging us into one culture. But I believe globalization has weakened us as individuals, and is shaping the way people think and act and how they live their lives. Globalization can be very negative, and you can see through our every day globalization, media convergence and transnational corporations, all these aspects of globalization contribute and are right now taking away from our individual identity and adding to our collective identity, ruining the perfect balance.

The uniting of our world is directly linked to globalization, eventually we become alike, having less of an individual identity and more of a collective identity so we will become one culture. I agree that this statement is true, that globalization is combining our world into one society, but I don’t believe that is the direction we should be going. An example of our world becoming a whole could be the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a road of knowledge, the interaction of people from all around the world, sharing exclusive spices and silks, and new science and technology. From the developing of the universal number system, to the learning of different people’s cultures, it all brought us together as a whole. Another example could be the new release that has influenced popular culture, the hit song and music video “Gangnam Style”. “Gangnam Style” is sung by South Korean music artist PSY, and as of November 26, 2012 (2012 -11-26)^[update], the music video has been viewed over 830 million times on YouTube, becoming more popular then Justin Beiber. By the end of October 2012, the song reached the number one position in more than 30 countries including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, and according to the United Nations, this song has become an “international sensation”. Even so, listening to the same music and wearing the same big brand name clothes are just more examples of how we are losing our unique personal identities, and our identities as a whole. Different cultures need to become more aware of the convergence of our world and begin to rediscover their individual and collective identities that set them apart from every other culture, because without it, we are moving towards one world.

C is for cookie. COOKIE!?! Omm-nom-nom!! The Cookie Monster from the hit American children’s show Sesame Street, is a character we all have come to know and love. Media corporations affect and influence all of us socially, economically, politically and environmentally, and Sesame Street is one of the very most influential shows because it teaches young children basic morals and learning skills, and also gives the children relatable role models. Sesame Street has made its way all around the world, and appears in over 100 countries today. It’s a show we as children have all watched, children are watching today, and our future generations of children will watch. Most of the shows broadcasted, although there are a few culturally specific to their own countries, are mostly in the general North Americans’ outlook. If viewing this show by children with the same general North American outlook is not clearly displaying the convergences of our world then I don’t know what is. This is clearly another example of how the world is mutually coming together, strengthening our collective identity as a world, but losing our identities as a person. Media convergence is one of the major contributors to the deteriorating of our identity, the fading of us as a diverse world, with many exceptional, different, and beautiful people.

Banana splits, banana muffins, banana chocolate chip muffins! Bananas are one of the most popular fruits in Canada, and the reason for this is because we cannot grow bananas in our climate, but we can use it for so many things! When bananas were first introduced in North America, they were a hot commodity and a treat among the wealthy, and being such a popular fruit, created some competitive companies. But now with bananas being so common, we can just walk into the grocery store on a daily basis and grab bananas for a very reasonable price, and we likely fail to remember where they came from and how they got here. Chiquita, being one of the leading companies, have banana farms in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama, and ship the bananas all around the world. With transportation as easy as it is today to fly or boat over seas to another country, it is just as easy to transfer bananas all around the globe. But if we receive the bananas and are forgetting where they came from, then we as a society don’t know the whole story. We as a society might not know that the bananas are being sprayed with pesticides to kill the bugs out on the farms, and that wouldn’t be such a big deal, if the workers weren’t in the fields with the dangerous chemicals too. We are turning a blind eye to the clear breaking of their human rights, and as a society we need to realize how lucky we are to even have these bananas. This is one of the examples that I actually agree with.  I don’t believe we should be uniting as one world, but I believe that the trading or shipping of bananas is actually a fine way of keeping in touch with the people down in those exotic places. The bananas are not directly telling us to buy them and everyone should eat them and we will all become the same, but I can see how people could interpret that, but what I can’t see is Chiquita taking over and conquering the world.

Globalization is happening. Globalization should create diversity within our world and create uniqueness within ourselves. Our everyday globalization, media convergence and transnational corporations do play a huge role of what makes us who we are. But I believe globalization has weakened us as individuals, and is shaping the way people think and act and how they live their lives and this is all contributing to our personal identities and collective identities. Because everyone is unique and different, what would the world be without a diverse and different people? I think it would be a very boring, dull, and unfulfilling place to live and call home.

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Social 10-1
Ronni Burrows

    What impact does globalization have on a world? Has it enhanced us as a globe, or has it weakened us as individuals? There is a heated discussion about the true influences of globalization and if it really is such an advantageous thing. Good or bad, there isn't much argument as to whether or not it's happening. If you look at the tag on your shirt, chances are you would see that it was made in a country other than the one in which you sit right now. Before it reached your wardrobe, that shirt could have very well been made with Chinese cotton, sewn by Thai hands, shipped on a French freighter crewed by Spaniards to a Los Angeles harbor. Essentially an economic phenomenon, globalization could only be envisioned in the context of wider interaction between different cultures; I instead believe that globalization has in fact lessened us as individuals. Globalization should shape the identity not create it so that individuals and collective identities are lost or forgotten. Our daily globalization, media convergences, and our economics are all big factors as to what keeps us from maintaining our distinctiveness, and as an alternative of being an individual.

    To what extent should globalization shape our identity? In our hybridized world, many of our sources express the positive aspects of our globalized domain. They all tell about our access to foreign culture in the form of movies, music, food, clothing, and more. In short, the world has more choices.  Still, they say globalization is the process of increased interconnection among countries, most notably in the areas of economics, politics, and culture. For example; McDonalds in Japan, French films being played in Minneapolis, and the United Nations, are all representations of globalization. Society is modernizing at a rapid rate and there is nothing we can do about that. But people around the world need to come to realize the importance of cultural diversity, unique traditions, and personal identities apart from one other. Although different cultures from around the world are able to interact, they begin to meld, and the contours and individuality of each begin to fade. One of the strongest critics to globalization comes from the fear that such a process might erode national cultures and individual identities.

    Today, the original American kids show "Sesame Street" appears in more than 120 countries. Children in 65 countries have viewed the series in its English‐language form and in addition, the program has been re-made in 13 other languages.  The producer of Sesame Street owns a lot more than just a TV show. Media convergences are bringing together media companies; a newspaper, a textbook publisher, a phone company, a TV network, and a movie production company may all be owned by a single transnational corporation. Not only has the Americans’ show Sesame Street been shared across the world but in particular the Americans’ outlook in general. We adopt American ways, and their media has a big influence on the outcomes of the rest of the world. Americans are interrogating other cultures identities. Today, communication technologies are changing so quickly that the rate of revolution has become far faster than ever before. Cell phones, television, and the Internet have come to affect nearly every aspect of people’s lives. The word distribution simply means to spread out, and that is exactly what any new found knowledge does. When a new development or way of doing something emits, it does not stay secret for long. The media aspect of globalization is making us lose one of the things that count the most: our identity, the uniqueness in us, that which makes us special and allows us to stand out from the crowd.

    Although bananas may only look like a fruit, they represent a wide variety of economic problems. The banana trade symbolizes economic imperialism and injustices in the global trade market. As one of the first tropical fruits to be exported, bananas were a cheap way to bring the tropics to North America and Europe. But why so cheap? People who work for banana companies work for very little money, that’s why we can buy them for so little in our local grocery stores. Bananas have become such a common, inexpensive grocery item that we often forget where they come from and how they got here. The transnational corporations, most notably Chiquita, Dole and Del Monte, have been linked to the World Trade Organization. What I think source three was really showing is that big brand names for either an industry or an item in the store can over show smaller brands or local stores. Mass consumption of products brought up by international trade in cultural and other sectors may be seen as negative because it crowds out self-produced, traditional and locally manufactured goods and services. How does this affect your identity? The influences of big brands helps fuel the economy by motivating buyers and supporting sellers. Your brain perceives what the average person buys and believes it’s normal and that you should have it too. Everyone needs to feel connected with others and be with others who share attitudes, interests, and circumstances that resemble their own. But why can’t we be unique. I feel that big brand like Chiquita are only making us the same as everyone else. We need to embrace our own uniqueness and think for ourselves instead

    It is obvious that neither globalization nor cultural identities are neutral concepts. But no matter what your opinion, globalization is happening. Globalization should create the diversity within our world and create the uniqueness within ourselves. As today’s global economy continues to expand, we know neither if globalization is making us better as a world or worse. But just imagine a world where everyone eats the same stuff, wears the same clothes, and listens to the same music. How dull would that be? Our daily lives, media, and our economics all support a huge role of what makes us who we are. As a globe, we need to hold our individuality and continue the diversity between one other.

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by Ellen Lee

I bought a Costco membership card in Korea and I moved to Canada, U.S., Mexico, Japan etc, have Costco. I can use a Costco membership card in any country’s Costco. Where is Costco Wholesale Corporation from? It is located in Washington in U.S. it’s not a Korean company and not a Canadian company either but I can use Costco in Korea and Canada too. It is an example of globalization. What is globalization? I think it is like assimilation of people all over the world. Before world became globalization, people almost use their resources, goods, media and labours. But After world became globalization as they usually trade goods, service and media and become a member of same company with other countries’ people, their cultures has similarity each other.



To quote source 1, “Globalization can affect us individually and also collectively.” There are four different types of globalization in the world. People can be affected by economics, social, environmental, and political globalization. An example of Economic and political globalization can be FTA in South Korea. In 2007, South Korea officially started FTA(Free Trade Agreement) with South America. In Free Trade, two countries can trade with each other without any limits. For example, Tariffs, quotas, taxes and other stuff to trade are lifted. Through this, South Korea got lots of positive effects like decrease in tariffs and could get legal services from law firm company in U.S. The negative impact could be lead to the farmers who harvest crops. At that time, South Korea had to import rice from the U.S but, they no longer have to import it from U.S and it gave lots of problems to farmers who harvest rice because importing rice from the U.S was cheaper than rice made in South Korea. Multiculturalism can an example of social globalization because as people who have different identities, cultures, race live together, they get to share them and get to know about different cultures and become their identities the same. Negative effects of social globalization could be lead the loss of individual rights to their own lifestyle and their culture. Globalization is everywhere and everyone is affected by it either in negative and positive ways, and everyone if part of it.




It was broadcasted in twenty countries and it has over 120 million viewers. It is not popular in Korea, but Koreans know what is it and who are characters like Elmo and Cookie monster in ‘Sesame Street’. But it is a true that ‘Sesame Street’ is international broadcast and an example of media convergence. Media convergence, it is a business owns multiple media companies and has them work together and it affects media identity. When people buy some goods through movies, dramas, TV shows or see magazines, these media do role advertisement and the situation affects media identity.
So, When someone watch ‘Sesame Street’ and get feelings about want to buy clothes, bags or etc designed by characters of ‘Sesame Street’, also other people get same feelings to buy something which designed by characters of ‘Sesame Street’. It is an example of how does media affect identity and media convergence.



Chiquita is the biggest banana firm in the world so people see bananas which has Chiquita’s logo anywhere. How to produce Chiquita banana? What is a process about Chiquita banana to come to consumers? Chiquita brand company uses plantation system and majority plantations are Latin America like Guatemala.Bananas are produced in Latin America and then to quote source 3 “it have been rigorously inspected before they ever leave the tropics 6 times.” After finished evaluate about quality of bananas, it ships all over the world using transportation when they use to ship transportation, it is an example of containerization. Containerization, It is a way to ship goods using containers after trade routes change more conveniently. And people who live all over the world buy Chiquita banana in grocery store more cheaper than other fruits. Why banana is more cheaper than other fruits? When Chiquita brand sell their banana at cheap price they can get advantage from banana? When banana pickers cultivate bananas, they’re members of Chiquita brand company even Chiquita’s logo maker and banana carrier too. Chiquita has over 10.000 employees in all over the world. They have lots of employee, they sell their banana very cheap price and first of all they’ll get advantages about their bananas. It means they save money at employees’ wages and work surroundings to sell more cheaper and get advantage themselves. Chiquita brand is an example of transnational corporation and has problems about human rights. Transnational corporation it is company has more than one registered company in other countries to give better services or goods to consumers. But its problem are to use child labour, unfair wages and unsafe working conditions. As world became globalization, transnational corporations were formed and contribute lots of people get jobs and world economies are developed. But If they have not responsible about conducting their business and human rights, globalization will become worse.




As world became globalization trade became more liberalization. As trade liberalization is developed more and more people all over the world have chances to share their cultures, media, labours and etc each other and affects our identity. So they can watch some of identical movies like ‘Harry potter’ and ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and broadcasts like ‘Sesame Street’ in their country. They can eat Chiquita bananas in any countries. They can hire workers who have different races to transnational corporations. Globalization is caused these examples. Although it sometimes has negative effects, it makes people unite each other like one world.

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                                                            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 2^nd 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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Source Interpretation Assignment

Brett Rider

Introduction:

Is globalization a good or bad thing? This is a good question and everyone will have a different answer to it.  There are arguments for both sides.  Each person's opinion can come from different places.  Depending on what kind of TV you watch or what kind of newspapers you read your opinion might be different from others.  It is about how certain sources make it look.  In this essay I will talk about how globalization affects us individually and collectively.  And if one day we will have less of an individual identity and a more collective identity.  Will we eventually become one culture, one world? What is your position?

Body Paragraph 1:

In source one it says that a more collective identity will be reached and this will unite the whole world into one culture.  I don’t agree with this.  Our culture is different from others and I don’t like the idea of it becoming the same as everybody else.  I think it is better to have a collective identity as Canadians.  Canada is a culturally diverse country, I think it is good that we accept all different cultures, but I don’t think it would be good for the whole world to share a collective identity. The question is not if you agree that it is a good thing or not, the question is do you agree it is happening or not? You can talk about it being a bad thing as well, but you are missing the main question.

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In the second source it shows two signs in different languages.  They are both Sesame Street signs.  Sesame Street was originally made in North America and was in English.  It is a good example of how shows are globalized.  Today you can go most places in the world and watch it in that language.  But it isn’t just Sesame Street; many shows that are made in North America are regularly watched in other countries.  These shows are showing viewpoints of the people in North America to people in a lot of different countries.  Going back to the first source, if other people start to share the same beliefs because of TV the world will be more united and start to share cultural beliefs. Refer to my comments from class and the last paragraph. 

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In source three it says that the Chiquita bananas are inspected six times before they are shipped.  This might be true but I don’t think the way this is done is right.  These bananas are grown and picked in the tropics, shipped to North America, and sold in stores here.  After this process you would expect them to be expensive, but it is the opposite.  They are very cheap.  This is made possible because the people where they are grown make very little money.  I think this is a negative aspect of globalization, although we like this because we get the bananas very cheap, it is not right that people work to produce them and barely make any money.  Sometimes all family members have to work and they just make enough money to survive.  The land owners make most of the money and pay workers almost nothing.  This is good information but what does this source have to do with the first source and the over arching question?

Conclusion:

Globalization is all over the world and affects everybody.  With technology today, there is more of it and we can’t really do anything about it.  If globalization keeps increasing it will not be for the good because we will lose our individual identity and become more collective.  Someday everyone might share the same language and have all the same beliefs, and I don’t think that is good. 

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My Interpretation Essay

By Jake Williams 

Introduction : Globalization affects everybody's lives. Globalization is everywhere From this essay to the phone sitting on your desk, even your two year old child is effected by globalization. some people think globalization is destroying the world as we know it. Other people think Globalization is great . I agree that globalization is a good thing. But the technologies we make should never take enough of our life that they end up controlling us. Globalization seems to be taking what individual identity is left in this world. Children are being exposed too signs of globalization and change earlier and earlier. Even the food we eat everyday is a great example of globalization. Globalization has been known to be destroying the individual identities of everyone but is that really a bad thing? i believe that we are truly are becoming on nation and on identity all together 

 "Globalization affects us individually and collectively. Eventually, we will have less of an individual identity and a more collective identity will be reached. this will unite us all; One culture, one world." Is it really a bad thing to destroy culture? If we all had one culture and one religion that would prevent many wars and a lot of the violence in the modern world. But Our cultures are most of our identity, our religion the way we live what clothes we wear. I personally think that we should keep our own cultures but become closer to each other. Our cultures are becoming one. We are all beginning to gain the same culture, becoming closer and closer.

Do you understand "Rruga Sesam"? How about "Ulica Sezam"? Well I bet you would understand Sesame Street right? Well Rruga Sesam means sesame street in a another language. This is a great way for people to start bridging the language barrier. Sesame street has begun broadcasting in multiple languages all around the world. This shows main audience is children, it teaches them the alphabet, numbers, manners and much more but now it is moving all around the world teaching children everywhere. Sesame Street is based from an english culture and teaches children english cultures to children all over the world.  This is a form of globalization because it is making other cultures more and more like ours. Eventually the whole world will end up being one huge culture, not the many different ones we have today. Even children's television programs have signs of globalization in them. Did you know the food we eat does too?    

   Chiquita Bananas yummy! Did you know that the banana that might be on your kitchen counter right now may have been shipped from panama, Costa Rica or Honduras? And did you know that these bananas that seem fresh and new have been shipped for days? most of the food in your local grocery store has been shipped from places other than North America and have been shipped for days. This is a great display of globalization. Go to your fridge and look at the stickers on the food and then do a little bit of research and you may just find that your milk is from Mexico. think about the food that we make in Canada. Think of that cheese with the Canadian dairy symbol on it and now think of that cheese being shipped all over the world. The food we make and buy helps Globalize our world, everybody buys food which means there is always lots of cash flow through the food industry. food from other countries is taking money from our country. We are shipping food to other countries taking money from that country all of our economies are connected in one way or another and globalization is the main reason for that. This is a perfect example of how globalization is making us all the same. We all are getting the products from all over the world making our apparel the same, the food we eat the same and us the same.

Globalization has been seen as a great thing improving the overall quality of life for everyone. Globalization has also been seen a devil in sheep's clothing "it may look good but it will come back to get us later" as in if we let this happen to us it will destroy life for us. I think that globalization is a good thing for us but that we should always remember who. We are not who somebody on the other side of the world. We should help others but not forget about our neighbours and we should always stay united. Don't you agree?

  

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Source Interpretation Assignment

By: Darius Savage

          In our lives, we are subject to lots of advertisement and lots of different cultures. Is globalization happening? If so is globalization a good thing or a bad thing? It's more of an opinion, but there are factors for both sides. In this essay I will be covering both sides, and just try to see if becoming one big culture could actually be a good thing.

          In source 1, it says that globalization will unite the whole world together for the better, but wouldn't that destroy our collective identities? Globalization is happening on television, on the internet, in books, and many other forms of media. Globalization could be assimilating different cultures and marginalizing them so that we become one big culture, or it could be making many little cultures through the internet and sharing ideas with specific people that are very similar to us with their thoughts, opinions, and values through things like Facebook and Twitter. I agree that globalization is happening, but it is happening as one culture, one identity, one world, and that is not ideal.

          In source 2, There are two pictures. They  are both for the children's television show Sesame Street, but they are in two different languages. This is an American television show that was originally aired in English, but then converted to different languages to appeal to different parts of the world. But it is not just Sesame Street. Sesame Street is a media corporation, and lots of other T.V shows are showing in different languages in different countries all over the world. The media could be intentionally or unintentionally causing globalization and making us all become one culture. Media convergence is when one media owns a whole bunch of different media sources, such as magazines, television shows and stations, newspapers, websites, etc. and use it to send the same message, tricking people to think that it is different companies, making them think it's true. Disney, for example, owns almost every different market of media available, ESPN, ABC, tons of different stations. They own Marvel, Star Wars and The Muppet's.  If we are all watching the same television show, that definitely destroys our collective identities by teaching children in Asia North American ideas and values.

          In source 3, there is an advertisement for Chiquita brand bananas. Canada's number one fruit is banana's and the number one brand is Chiquita. We can't even grow banana's here, but it's still our most popular fruit and they are fairly cheap, which means that the company takes short cuts to make them, including unsafe working conditions, low wages for workers, and bad pesticides, herbicides, and cloning from one banana. The type of banana that we buy today is not the same banana as the type that we bought 80 years ago. A disease infected and completely destroyed and exterminated all that kind and that could easily happen to the current popular banana without pesticides and herbicides, that is potentially harmful to people to eat the banana's and the workers. This is a factor for globalization, because all of the sudden, countries have access to fruits and products they can't grow/produce. Banana's are all over the world, so chances are very few people have never ate a banana.  

          Globalization is happening right now through media, advertisements and the internet. Becoming one country for one world through globalization is bad. It is important to protect our culture, heritage, and rights as separate countries, to preserve everything who has fought and died for it. Globalization does have some bonuses in that we might never have another war if we became one big culture, but that is probably just a thought. Becoming one culture is not the way to go.

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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.