The Contemporary

World
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Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries are committed to continue developing
regional economic integration despite the rising anti-globalization sentiments and trade tension
 Does each picture speak of
realities in the Philippines?

What is its primary

message?
 INTRODUCTORY ACTIVITY

 Group the class into 4 groups

 Present the picture assigned to you
 Explain the picture based on the following:
1. What it shows
2. Its connection to the world’s fast pace of development
3. How people embraced the impact of industrialization
Why do you need to study the world?

 At first glance, the world, as a concept, is abstract. After all, your daily experiences
Are considered interactions with your country. When you read the news, you read
about the Philippines. When you engage in an official transaction like paying taxes,
You deal with the Philippine government. Almost all of your classmates and teachers
Are Filipino.

 However, you only need to step back a little bit to see that the world out there is
already here.

 The media is also your windows to the contemporary world.

 Your consumption habits are also global.

 Studying the outside world is a cure to parochialism or an outlook that is limited
to one’s immediate community.

 A person who is concerned only with himself, his family, village, or even country is
parochial. The parochial person is, thus, close-minded.

 This subject aims to stretch the limits of your imaginations and outlook.
DEFINING GLOBALIZATION
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 WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?

 Globalization is the increasing interaction of people, states, or countries

through the growth of the international flow of money, ideas, and
culture. Thus, globalization is primarily focused on economic process of
integration that has social and cultural aspects.

 It is the interconnectedness of people and business across the world that

eventually lead to global, cultural, political, and economic integration.

 It is the ability to move and communicate easily with other all over the
world in order to conduct business internationally.
 WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?

• It is the free movement of goods, services, and people across the

world in a seamless and integrated manner.

• It is the liberalization of countries of their impact protocols and

welcome foreign investment into sectors that are the mainstays of its
economy.

• It refers to countries acting like magnets attracting global capital by

opening up their economies to multinational corporations.
METAPHORS OF GLOBALIZATION
 1. SOLID

• The epochs that preceded today’s globalization paved way for people,
things, information, and places to harden over time.
• They have limited mobility (Ritzer2015).
• The social relationships and objects remained where they were created.
• It refers to barriers that prevent or make difficult the movement of things.
• These have the tendency to melt. This process involves how we can
describe what is happening to today’s global world. It is becoming liquid.

Epochs - historical period specifying the conditions and contexts within which somewhat specific
human, social, political and economic relations are situated.
 TYPES OF SOLIDITY INTERACTION

1. NATURAL

LAND FORMS BODIES OF WATER

 TYPES OF SOLIDITY INTERACTION

2. MAN-MADE

GREAT WALL OF CHINA NINE-DASH LINE

 TYPES OF SOLIDITY
INTERACTION

GREAT WALL OF CHINA

History of construction
The Great Wall developed from the disparate border
fortifications and castles of individual Chinese
kingdoms. For several centuries these kingdoms were
as concerned with protection from their near neighbors
as they were with the threat of barbarian invasions or
raids.
 consists of numerous walls—many of them parallel to each other—built over some two
millennia across northern China and southern Mongolia

 The most extensive and best-preserved version of the wall runs for some 5,500 miles (8,850
km) east to west.
 TYPES OF SOLIDITY
INTERACTION
NINE-DASH LINE

Beijing stakes claim to most of the region and at

the heart of this claim is the U-shaped ‘nine-dash
line’ that includes as much as 90 percent of these
waters. This dotted line was adopted from
Chinese maps in the 1940s, and represents
Beijing’s claim over the sea and all the land
features that are contained within the line.

 The nine-dash line was originally authored by Chinese geographer Yang Huairen. Yang
was born in 1917 and pursued his education in the UK before being employed by China’s
Nationalist government.
 TYPES OF SOLIDITY
INTERACTION
NINE-DASH LINE

 When the nationalist government lost to the Communists, and relocated to Taiwan, Yang
stayed back.

 However, he was eventually persecuted as an “anti-revolutionary academic authority”

during the Cultural Revolution — a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 to 1976 —
for his role in the Kuomintang government.

 But Yang’s conception of the U-shaped line would stay on. In 1952, the 11-dash line became
the nine-dash line when in a moment of Communist camaraderie with Vietnam, Mao gave
up China’s claims over the Gulf of Tonkin.
 TYPES OF SOLIDITY
INTERACTION
NINE-DASH
LINE

Argument:

China's 9 dash line is an invalid territorial claim because:

 It is illegal
 It endangers the sovereignty of multiple states with exclusive economic zones in
the south china sea
 TYPES OF SOLIDITY
INTERACTION
NINE-DASH
LINE
The 9 Dash Line is Unlawful

In accordance with article 56 of the United Nations Conventions and Laws of the Sea (UNCLOS) of
which China is a signatory, states have the exclusive right to exploit the resources of and build artificial
islands within their exclusive economic zones (EEZ) (UNCLOS 43-44). Therefore, any portion of the 9
dash line that is within another country's EEZ is unlawful; International law prohibits China from
capturing resources and creating islands in other states' EEZ's (UNCLOS 43-44). Consequently, all of
the dashes on China's 9 dash line that are within the Philippine's and Vietnam's individual EEZ's marked
on the following map are illegal claims.
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LINE
 2. LIQUID

• It refers to the increasing ease of movement of people, things ,

information, and places in the contemporary world.

• These are not fixed.

 Overseas Filipinos Workers (OFWs) in 2020

1.77 million

Overseas Filipinos Workers (OFWs) in 2021

1.83 million

Overseas Filipinos Workers (OFWs) in 2022

2.24 million
 CHARACTERISTICS OF LIQUIDITY

• Zygmunt Bauman’s(2000) ideas were the ones

that have very much to say about the characteristic of liquidity.
1.Liquid phenomena change quickly and its aspects
2.Spatial and temporal
3.In continuous fluctuation
4.Movement is difficult to stop
5.The forces made political boundaries more permeable to the flow of
people and things.
Liquidity and solidity is in constant interaction. Liquidity is the one
increasing and proliferating today .

Therefore, the metaphor which could best describe globalization is

LIQUIDITY.