4 questions about globalization. Please help me!?

Question

What evidence of globalization is reflected by the things in your room or home? Be sure to include a discussion of the number of countries and continents represented by the items in your journal.

Give examples of three items that you found in your room or home and discuss the trade relationship in the source country. Was there a favorable balance of trade, or a trade deficit?

Based on your findings, what do you think might be two positive aspects of globalization?

Based on your findings, what do you think might be two negative aspects of globalization?

I will give 20 points for it..

thank u

Answer 1

You can't give 20 points.

Read this site and learn about globalization:

http://www.globalization101.org/

Answer 2

Some objects you could use (just make them up):

A poster for the FIFA World Cup, a pizza, Pokemon cards, tacos.

Countries/continents involved: Fifa: Everyone--it's international. Pizza: Italy (especially Naples); Pokemon: Japan; Tacos: Mexico

Positive aspects: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalizati...

Negative: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalizati...

Answer 3

Globalization is making the world one big, boring shopping mall. You can travel from Bangkok to Brussels and not find a decent locally-made souvenier. It's all c**p from China.

A Yahoo! member recently wrote me about how nothing authentic remains in England. There used to be charming pubs on every corner, with long traditions and a local flavor. Now they are all mass-marketed chains, bland, and predictable. Is this what we want? Nothing unique left in the world? I was just in Dubai (part of the United Arab Emirates), and the stores were practically the same as those in the Europe.

Globalization also seems to hurt the poor, indigenous populations the most. The poor in places like Peru have not benefitted from capitalism. If anything, they have become largely landless and without any means of making money in the new economy.

Why do people hate McDonalds? Because they prey on peoples' worst tendencies: convenience over substance, predictability over innovation. McDonalds often acts like a vulture. It targets properties that have financial problems, and snatches them up, replacing the original use of a beautiful, historic building with their garish plastic nightmare. In places like Paris, people still have leisurely lunches, but as the temptation grows for French companies to squeeze more work out of their employees, those respectable lunches may be shortened as employers point out that they can eat fast food.

Let's stick with examples from France. One thing the French excel at is producing relatively small quantities of a product with very high quality. In the globalized market, these companies cannot compete. A small, private French dairy making high quality cheeses has far greater costs than some massive dairy corporation in Argentina. With globalization, the distributors can't be bothered to stock these small quantities, so no matter where you travel, you always get the same mass-marketed products.