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Thanks to the multiple industrial revolutions throughout history, globalization can

be experienced more easily in most parts of the world. It led to nations to work together,

technology to evolve, and human innovation to flourish. This Contemporary World E-

portfolio incorporates the different advocacies concerning economic globalization,

political globalization cultural globalization, peace globalization, and environmental

globalization.

Pascual, Keihle Dianne Gyraser L.

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Phased-In Retirement and Utilization of the Senior Work Force:

An Economic Globalization Advocacy

URL: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSev3Ywwp/

Unless we increase the age limit on retirement and properly utilize the senior work force,
there would be a sudden decline in labor, which puts a huge strain on countries’ economy. It is
best that we look for a solution besides increase the fertility rate and look to using the available
resources that we do have which would keep the older citizens from feeling dissatisfied with their
lives from doing nothing, as well as helping stabilize their economy.

This advocacy relates to the SDGs 8th goal Decent Work & Economic Growth, and 9th goal
Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. It tackles the problems that ageing population brings,
such as the likely chance of economic growth becoming stagnant and price of living increasing
which is what the 8th Sustainable Development Goal is about. The advocation to utilize the senior
work force also relates to the 9th goal of inclusive industrialization and fostering of innovation to
make work easier for the older workers.
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Empower Women With Equal Rights And Opportunities For A

Better Tomorrow: A Political Globalization Advocacy

URL: https://twitter.com/KeiDGP/status/1501602566295093249

Women— such as Ada Lovelace, Queen Elizabeth I, Amelia Earhart and Rosa Parks—
changing history can also be found throughout history. However, compared to men, they are only
few in comparison. By empowering and ending forms of discrimination against women, the
chance of seeing a better tomorrow is more likely.

This advocacy relates to the 4th and 5th Sustainable Development Goals, Quality Education
and Gender Equality respectively, wherein the empowerment of girls and women tackles the UN’s
goals respective goals of gender equality and quality education through inclusivity and equity for
all, thus giving everyone a chance to get better opportunities in education and career.
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Understanding Cultural Identities To Develop

Countermeasures Against Spread Of Fake News: A Cultural
Globalization Advocacy

URL: https://twitter.com/KeiDGP/status/1502321961866645505

Technology should be a mode of revealing, something that brings forth truth (Heidegger,
1954). The acceleration and intensification of technology brought forth the digital era, but along
with it the responsibility of perceiving the dangers it poses. By understanding nations’ cultural
identities (ie, individualism vs collectivism) and the reasons of acceptance of fake news,
countermeasures can be made.

This advocacy relates to the 10th Sustainable Development Goal, Reduced Inequalities
through understanding the reasons why those of the bottom 40% of the population easily believe
in misinformation and spread them. Countermeasures can then be made to prevent this issue
and the possibility of chaos or disruption of peace, which tackles the 16th Sustainable
Development Goal, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.
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Bold Climate Action Through COVID-19’s Recovery Plans: A

Peace Education Advocacy

URL: https://twitter.com/KeiDGP/status/1509227503726260225

The cause of violence is rarely caused by environmental factors, but management of

natural resources and environmental degradation, such as mining for rare earth metals or
extraction of fossil fuels, are often linked to conflict. The dwindling resources of these non-
renewable energy sources have increased prices and competition, increasing further tensions
between competing nations. However, the pandemic has shown that there is a chance for us to
help repair the damage we have made on the environment.

This advocacy relates to the 13th Sustainable Development Goal, Responsible

Consumption and Production as it calls for action through the government’s economic recovery
plans that will be founded on innovating in low-carbon resilient solutions in order to move away
from use of fossil fuel, main causes of biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. It also
relates to the 16th goal as it can reduce competing over resources and exploitation within poor or
rural areas, thus promoting peace.
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Early Youth Exposure And Activism Towards SDG’s and Global

Environment Issues: An Environmental Crisis Advocacy

URL:

https://twitter.com/KeiDGP/status/1509929621193891841

In lower education, global environment issues are almost always tackled by the instructors.
However, only a few, if not rarely, are taught about the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable
Development Goals completely. Youth activism not only allows those involved to make a
meaningful contribution to society, but it can help develop the students’ skills in communication,
relationship building, and critical thinking skills.

This advocacy relates to the 4th Sustainable Development Goal, Quality Education, wherein
the youth are educated and exposed early on to the global environment issues and how the SDG’s
can help in solving them. The advocacy also relates to the 17th goal, Partnerships for the goals,
as welcomed and encouraged youth activism can increase awareness and resolution in helping
resolve the global environment issues.
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Globalization: Building Doors for Better Opportunities

Through this Contemporary World course, I was able to discern the three essential terms
to describe globalization as a process, a condition (globality), and an ideology (globalism). The
course also helped me see the negative effects brought by globalization, such as its impact on
environmental degradation due to dirty industries’ activities in and to developing countries (Bilgili
et al., 2019). However, it is also through globalization that innovations such as clean energy can
be the needed solution for reducing our carbon footprint. Ecological footprint growth in Turkey,
Bilgili et al. (2019) noted, was minimized by the growth of interpersonal globalization. Therefore,
I believe that in spite of the negative effects brought on by globalization, the benefits it offers us
offsets the issues.

We can simply look at Arjun Appadurai’s “Five Scapes of Culture” theory to see the
beneficial effects globalization could bring. In Financescapes, the acceleration of money
movement can mean more generation of businesses and trades that will in turn, bring the more
job opportunities. In technoscapes, advancement of technologies’ capabilities at an unparalleled
rate can improve people’s quality of life. Mediascape that shape and influences people’s way of
thinking or experiences can positively spread a more modern and liberating set of beliefs around
the world, a part of Appardurai’s theory called Ideoscapes. Lastly, through ethnoscapes, also
known as the accelerated movement of people around the world, we can visit far away places
and use a country’s way of life to improve our own, like the time I lived in Singapore for my primary
and early secondary education, and witnessed the use of ez-link cards years before the Beep
card was implemented in the Philippines.

I also believe that despite Berger (2013), from the fourth module of the course, and Berger
(2002) assuming that the intensification and acceleration of social relations and consciousness
will merge the cultures into “Western Cultural Imperialism”, a nation does not have to lose its
cultural idenitity. In fact, it should be the nation’s paramount priority and responsibility to be able
to respond to modern changes and develop (Ergashev, I. & Farxodjonova, N., 2020). And I believe
that glocalization is one of the best ways of keeping national cultures while developing along with
the world, whether they may be Eastern or Western culture, such as the case of McDonalds
offering rice when they don’t in Western counterparts.
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Out of all the advocacies I have submitted in this e-portfolio, the one I am most passionate
to continue advocating for is my advocacy for the Political Globalization Advocacy, Empower
Women with Equal Rights and Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow. This is because I believe that
we still have miles to go before we can truly achieve true equality and equity. The upcoming May
2022 elections have shown me that despite having women in power and STEM fields, misogyny
is prevalent in the country and across the world. I would like to continue to advocate for equal
rights for all and equity for women, so that genuine and sincere politicians like Leni Robredo would
be not be dismissed simply because “she is a woman”. Not only does my advocacy benefit the
government, economy and cultural dimensions be able to help reduce the abuse that women go
through, either through violence or human-trafficking, it will also open up the same opportunities
that are available to men, many in government or leader positions. A proof of this would be the
way Taiwan, Iceland and New Zealand became the countries to be envied during the duration of
the Covid-19 pandemic (Wittenberg-Cox, 2020). These countries have one thing in common:
women leaders.

References

Berger, P. (2002). The cultural dynamics of globalization. In P. Berger & S. P. Huntington

(Eds.). Many Globalizations: Cultural Diversity in the Contemporary World. (p.166).
Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/0195151461.003.0001

Bilgili, F., Ulucak, R., Kocak, E., & Ilkay, S. C. (2019). Does globalization matter for
environmental sustainability? Empirical investigation for Turkey by Markov regime
switching models. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 27(1), 1087-
1100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-06996-w

Ergashev, I. & Farxodjonova, N. (2020). Integration of national culture in the process of

globalization. Journal of critical reviews. https://doi.org/10.31838/jcr.07.02.90

Freizer, S. (2020). COVID-19 and women’s leadership: From an effective response to

building back better. Policy Brief No. 18. Retrieved from
https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/
Library/Publications/2020/Policy-brief-COVID-19-and-womens-leadership-en.pdf

Wittenberg-Cox, A. (2020). What do countries with the best coronavirus responses have
in common? Women leaders. Retrieved March 9, 2022, from
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/avivahwittenbergcox/2020/04/13/what-do-countries-
with-the-best-coronavirus-reponses-have-in-common-women-
leaders/?sh=1e13c5f13dec