Globalization

Question before watching

In order to start the exploration of this topic from a solid base, I searched a precise
definition of globalization on the thesaurus.
Globalization is the fact that different cultures and economic systems around the
world are becoming connected and similar to each other because of the influence of
large multinational companies and of improved communications.
Different cultures Different economic systems
Connected Similar
Communications Multinational companies

This classification in based only on my first impressions and I know that sometimes
positive aspects can become negative aspects changing our point of view.
Generalizing is always wrong.
*to highlight

Different cultures
 Travelling and enjoying the beauty of foreign countries’ art, music,
architecture, food and so on
 Tourism is an important industry for many countries, as mine.
 World scientific community working together with the aim of improving
people lives
 The meeting with a different culture can lead to a growth: in some states
women aren’t allowed to vote or they weren’t until a few years ago; the
meeting with other cultures has made those people thought that maybe
voting is also a women right.
Connected and communications
 Communication means are often related to freedom: people in totalitarian
countries often aren’t allowed to communicate abroad and internet has been
many times a mean for make foreign people aware about problems.
 By the improved communications today I’m trying to learn English with a tutor
who lives many kilometers away from me.
 We can talk to relatives living abroad.
Different economic systems
 The worse working conditions of people in some countries worsen the better
ones you can find in other countries because of the economic competition.
To make a better business companies choose workers who cost less but who
often have less rights and a worse condition.
Similar
 Losses of our culture due the spread of another. For example today in Italy
there is a big contamination of English in our language (meeting, break, vision,
mission, conference call). I’m not against English language as I’m trying to
learn it, but If we talk Italian I think we should do in the right way.
All cultures have beauty because the all are different from the other.
Multination companies
 Multination companies are often the ones who exploit poor people for
business reasons, without putting attention to their rights or their conditions.
Of course only few of them do this kind of things, generalizing is always
wrong.

Notes about the video

The background of globalization are advances in technology, such as mobile
phones, internet, airplanes, has led to a big growth of transports and
communications.
Thank to this people from all over the world can exchange goods and information
more quickly and in a less complicated way.
Two companies from the same country in direct competition with each other pay
the same costs, have the same customers, sell at similar prices: the same
conditions are applied to both.
Due the advances in transports and communication a company can offer its
product in a foreign country: because of the different conditions in the
manufacturing country, the products are sold in the foreign one often at a lower
price.
Local companies must react to withstand the competition.
Due the globalization more affordable products are available for more people.
We have not only the exchange of products and economic goods but also of
services, culture goods or languages.
Where there is light there is also shadow.
People and the environment often suffer.
Companies move production to an economically disadvantaged country people in
industrialized countries lose their job.
Job opportunities up to many locals in the economically disadvantaged country
but the work conditions become worse: the work for little money, therefore they
remain poor, they don’t have any kind of insurance cover.
Globalization has effects also on the environment: the airplanes, ship and trucks
used to transport goods over international borders cause the increase of the
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which in the main cause of global warming.
Even the national environmental rules are ignored: they a further cost factor
which companies try to keep as low as possible.