EFFECTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON GLOBALIZATION

Filipino in the Contemporary World

GED0113-LEC-Sec25-MN

IGNACIO, TRISHA ANGELIKA C.

Language and Literature Studies (English Studies)
Far Eastern University

If by going with Noam Chomsky’s definition of globalization as an ‘international

integration’, then the growing pandemic wouldn’t be a cause for the decline of
globalization but rather its transformation.

In less than six (6) months, the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has shook the
world with over three million confirmed cases and responsible for over almost 300,000
deaths nationwide. The fast-paced spread of the disease has rendered national
governments, institutions and organizations provide extreme measures to combat the
progressive rate of infection. These measures led to travel bans, closed borders, supply
chains, exporting goods and businesses, basically paralyzing the whole workforce and
economy in more than a hundred countries. It’s as if the world has stopped turning for
the pandemic. And then, the question prevails, “what would happen to globalization?”. It
is important to take notice that the world has already been suffering a decline in
globalization for the past twelve years. However, because of the pandemic, it bore holes
on each side of the stakeholders, forced to temporarily cut off foreign ties to prevent the
spread. These measures revealed the ‘dependency’ of each countries on foreign trade
and are now forced to work on their own to combat the virus. This will not only change
the systems in each country, but to that of the whole world in adherence to the
pandemic survival. This, in turn, will contribute greatly to globalization and will redefine
‘international integration’ in the near future.

Globalization is far from seeing its demise. Rather, after the pandemic, the world will
likely see a redefined version of globalization—systematic and tried. Who knows? The
pandemic might just be the turning point for every aspect in humanity.