Sunday, February 14, 2010

WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?


Nowadays, people talk about globalization all the time, so what is globalization? generally, "globalization is what happens when the movement of people, goods, or ideas among countries and regions accelerates" (Coatsworth, 2004).


Why and how globalization happens? There are four pillars of it:


1. the large scale of immigration


2. the global economic


3. new technologies


4. cultural transformation


since globalization, we know what's happened about Tiger Wood better than our neighborhood; We can eat Chinese food, Sushi, Korean food, Mexican Food, and more at Grandriver, where a main street in East Lansing; We can see all different colors people walk around at campus. This is how globalization impact our lives.


But do all the implications of globalization are positive?


(To be continued)

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