Julian , Mary Joy M.
BSTM-703
03 Worksheet 1
The Contemporary World
Instructions
1. Give what is asked below. Write your complete answers on the spaces provided.
03 Readings 1: "Locating the Global South"
Ideas
Introduction: The Starbucks and the
Shanty
Conceptualizing and Defining
Colonialism, Modernity, and the Creation
of Global Inequality
Challenging the Colonial Order
November 18, 2021
Summary/Explanation
Global interconnection is woven into the
fabric of everyday life, according to
geographers, anthropologists, and
sociologists who examine the phenomena
from the ground up. Those who pay
attention can see it. As a result, the
difference serves as a reminder that
globalization has its drawbacks. If
globalization is defined as the expansion
and consumption of cultural/commercial
signifiers, the shanty reflects the
persistence of the local, who is unwilling
to engage in the cosmopolitan culture
symbolized by Starbucks.
Conceptualizing is the process of forming
a notion or idea about something,
whereas defining is the process of
describing the nature, extent, or meaning
of something.
Colonialism is a form of dominance that
entails the enslavement of one people by
another. One of the problems with
defining colonialism is that it's difficult to
tell it apart from imperialism. Modernity is
a generation's self-definition of technical
advancement, governance, and
socioeconomics.
The socialist international, a federation of
socialist parties that ushered in the
emergence of leftwing influence in
European politics in the early twentieth

Conclusion: The Global South as New
Internationalism
03 Readings 2: "Globalization and the Asia Pacific and South Asia"
Ideas
Asia Pacific and South Asia and the
World
An Externalist View of Globalization
Generating Globalization: The Asia
Pacific and South Asia as a Springboard
century, did not prioritize colonized
people's struggles in its programs.
The global south has and continues to be
a paradigm of resistance for the rest of
the world. The global south staged a
global protest. Perhaps most importantly,
a similar globalization of southern
concerns is emerging in discussions of
global groups from the global south who
have been expressing environmental
blueprints.
Summary/Explanation
The Asia Pacific and South Asia refer
together to the regions of East (or
Northeast) Asia, Southeast Asia, the
Pacific Islands, and South Asia. In
addition to differences in language and
culture, the variation among states and
peoples in this region is vast.
Globalization is an external phenomenon
being pushed into the region by world
powers. Globalization can be understood
as a process that transforms the Asia
Pacific and South Asia. One of the
earliest manifestation Western arrivals in
the Asia Pacific and South Asia Western
powers prodded and muscled their way to
political and economic dominance.
Asia led the global economy only “falling
behind” from the eighteenth century.The
Europeans did not create the spice trade.
The thriving spice trade in the region and
beyond is what drew the European
powers to the region.
Asia, not the West, was the central global
force in the early modern world economy.
– It was the site of the world‟s most
important trade routes and in some
places more technologically advanced

The Anti-Global Impulse: Regional
Alternatives to Globalization
Conclusion
than the West in key areas such as
science and medicine.
See the region as a source of resistance
to globalization or to global or Western
powers.
Japanese colonialism in the 1930s and
1940s – East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere
– merely replicated imperial relationships
in East and Southeast Asia with new
masters
Push back against Western Imperialism
Asia for Asians Need to „liberate‟ the
region from Europe. Referred initially to
Japan, China, and Manchukuo but with
the outbreak of WWII, Japan also looked
beyond Northeast Asia to South and
Southeast Asia
The many perspectives demonstrate how
globalization is a multifaceted process in
which regional dynamics must be
considered as both a cause and an effect.