Globalization

What is Globalization?

According to the Business Dictionary:

 ''Globalization means the worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade and communications integration. Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, it may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately.''

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I reckon that everybody knows what is the meaning of globalization, because it has been treated as a global term since the past few decades. In my opinion, the word globalization means the connection between countries through the goods, services and common interests in order to improve their interests. The globalization it is a result of the growth of the international trade.

What is the connection between Globalization and Global Citizenship?

Both terms are strictly connected because they are interdependent terms. As I have explained before, to be a global citizen you must think that you have a world nationality, it means that you think about the world as a big nation and you know that you are part of that and can make the difference throughout your acts. The globalization make the global citizenship a possible thing to be part of, because we could not be able to think about and do things for other countries if we did not have a connection that makes possible the communication between the countries even though they are located far.

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With the advanced technology and increased communication between the countries we now are able to do some actions even though we are really far from a place. For instance, in nowadays is possible to be part of non-government organizations (NGOs) and make donations without travelling. It makes the actions easier than before. Another important factor is the internet. The internet has been the number one in terms of connecting people. For example, we can think about the social websites that are making the difference in the world as shown in the picture below.

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Is there any problem related to the globalization in the world?

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The answer is YES. Although the globalization have many positive impacts in the world and make the communication and trade easily between the countries, it also come with some issues that must be point out. First of all, the globalization may provide the weakness to the local commerce. For instance, some products that were produced in their countries few decades ago stopped because it was cheaper to buy it of outside the country, it has led to increased levels of poverty and making the money going overseas instead of stayed in the country. Secondly, with the increased globalization our resources are going down faster than before. For example, in order to produce more products to sell it overseas some countries, such as China, have increased their emissions of greenhouse gases, which has led to more pollution in the atmosphere and huge environmental problems. Moreover, the globalization have been made the countries think that they do not need to produce their goods because it is cheaper to buy from elsewhere in the world than produce it. It creates dependence between countries in order to have the goods and services. Furthermore, can you think about how many countries are REALLY dependent of China? I cannot even think about it, but if one day China collapses, it is going to be a huge problem in the world.

From my point of view, the globalization is a good think but it has to be controlled in order to do not cause the dependence between the nations as far we are going to. To be a global citizenship it is necessary to have certain dependence of others but it has to be controlled in the mode that you can provide good things to the world but you also can survive without the good things that they provided to you. I also thought about the social difference that it has made in the world. For example, to make the production and communication possible to be executed, many people, mostly poor, are working as 'slaves' and it is a huge problem related to the human rights.