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Your essay should: be 1000 words; be original; be well argued, articulate, well structured, coherent; be typed (Times New Roman, 12-pt font, 1.5-spaced, 2 cm margins); use an approved referencing style, e.g. MLA, Harvard, Chicago, APA; and be fully referenced with five or more relevant academic references (books, book chapters or journal 8articles).
Answer following questions.
“One impact of economic globalisation in Asia has been the commodification of
people in new ways.” Do you agree with this claim? In your answer refer to two
or three countries.
Definition of Globalization
Globalization is an economic phenomenon which interferes every nation in the world, and world economy is bonded together with multilateral institutions, design, manufacturing and sales. Driven by political pressure and better technology, it has accelerated rapidly in recent decades.(Globalization:Origion, development and impact, YangBoxu)
History of Globalization
Nowadays, most people, to some extent, have accepted the combination of culture and life, since globalization is not a new concept to human beings. Globalization is a historical process, which can be traced back to ancient China. For thousands of years, people and corporations have been buying from and selling to each other in lands from far away, such as the famous Silk Road across Central Asia that connected China and Europe during the middle ages. In Xihan, Zhang Qian visited the region in the northwest of China and other countries in the Mediterranean. Trade caravans carried silk to the northwest. Besides, in the early Ming Dynasty, Zheng He voyaged down the west ocean under order. This navigation was beneficial to China’s development and contributed to the politic, economic and cultural relationships of every country in Asia. In my opinion, the initial economic globalization is exchanging goods, which can be called trade in early time.
Impact of Globalization
Superficially, economic globalization seems to be too microscopical to concern to individuals; however, substantially, it influences everyone's life in very subtle ways.
Firstly, the better technology promotes globalization, conversely, globalization compels enterprises to update their technologies to adapt to the competitive circumstances. Thus, for common people, we must hold a far-sight that we have to improve our abilities and learn more knowledge in order that we are able to realize our values when combating with others.
Secondly, globalization has materialized through many ways. One of the most obvious ways is multilateral institutions. Such institution, like WTO and EU, make the trade
liberalization come true in several specific areas. Therefore, companies in these areas( such as France, German and Italy) can benefit from the half or non tariffs, somewhat, it leads to lower costs. Then more profits can be made, so workers from these countries can get considerable bonus to improve their living standards. Another way is that people from different countries can have more interaction with each other in a unified economic zone. Take EU as a case, EU combined with 25 European countries , has materialized their relentless pursuit for the single market, what's more, commercial activities can be hold disregarding borders. The united economy enables people in different countries to communicate more, so people have more choices for their future careers.
Thirdly, as the economy is developing, there spings up an overwhelming number of netizens. Millions of media buffs now use blogs, wikis, chat rooms, and personal broadcasting to add their voices to a stream of dialogue and debate on social phenomenon, such as WenZhang’s scandal, the Malaysia aircraft accident. The news travels itself without stop, just like the non-stoping clock hand.
But globalization also causes some negative effects to common people. Globalization makes the world economy increasingly bond together. We benefit from it as well as we share risks together. for example, during the Depression in the US, from 1929to1933, it caused thousands of workers to lost their jobs and numerous people died of starving, which indicates that facing the inevitable risks caused by globalization, common people can hardly do anything but suffer.
As we can see every fast food chain like McDonalds and KFC is spreading in the developing world. It cannot be denied that fast food is suitable for fast developed country. However, people are consuming more junk food from these joints which has an adverse
impact on their health. Even some kids take McDonalds and KFC as fashion or trend. However, they are hurting themselves while eating fast food. According to the record, the number of obese children in the world is becoming larger and larger.
As for culture, some Chinese people enjoy Christmas Day and the western Valentine’s Day, instead of Chinese New Year and Qixi-the Chinese Valentine’s Day. It is normal that different cultures collide, which leads to contradiction. But the problem is whether we should accept other culture or keep our own, since not every collision can evolve into cultural fusion. And bad aspects of foreign cultures are affecting the local cultures through TV and the Internet.
Furthermore, the benefits of economic globalization are not universal. The rich are getting richer while the poor are becoming poorer, because developed countries sells technology and high-tech product in a very high price, but poor countries can only sell labor or sources.
Cause of Globalization
globalization is the demand of society’s development. Human’s needs and wants are enlarging gradually. so the existing society cannot satisfy them. Obviously, the society cannot meet people’s needs and wants all the time. They always require more things than what already exist, which propel the society into moving forward. In a word, Globalization comes into being in the process of the society’s development.
Conclusion
The development of globalization cannot be stopped. But those changes can be either good or bad. As we all know, the society is developing with the principle of survival of the fittest.(Origion of species, Charles Robert Darwin) Therefore, the beneficial changes can exist among those changes and continue to push the development of society. Our world is growing up in the struggle of opposite. That is to say, both contradictions and resolving the contradictions are indispensable in our world. In the process of globalization, humans make efforts to retain the good aspects and abandon the bad ones.
In a word, globalization is a double -edged sword, people should make full use of the advantages while avoids the bad effects.
References
(1) The World is Flat,Thomas L. Friedman
(2) The Post-American World,Fareed Zakaria
(3) Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Creating,David Rothkopf
(4) A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market,Jim Gogers
(5) Wikinomics,Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
(6) Globalization:Origion, development and impact, YangBoxu
(7) Origion of species, Charles Robert Darwin
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