GLOBALIZATION MAKES PEOPLE FREER BY RAQUEL

GLOBALIZATION MAKES PEOPLE FREER

Before starting to write about this subject I, honestly, think we would better know the meaning of the globalization word.

If we look it up in Wikipedia we can read:

Globalization is an economic, technological, political and cultural planetary scale process, which consists in the increasing communication and interdependence among countries of the world, connecting their markets, societies and cultures, through a series of social, economic and political transformations.

In the last decade this integration has incredibly advanced due to progress in the technology, communications, science and transport.

Overall we can say that globalization has brought with itself one of the most interesting debates of the last decade. 

Immediately we can go into detail about it:

Although there are a lot of opinion about this topic, nowadays two totally opposite positions are coexisting  :

1-    Defenders of this phenomenon give us several reasons. On the whole, they think  this process has closed the world trough the  exchange  of  products, goods, information,  culture  and  knowledge .

They said that it allows  freedom to go all over the world, also that it produces more jobs and an important increasing of the economy;  therefore,  infant mortality has decreased, life expectancy has increased.

Finally as a result many countries like China, India,Vietnam  have  raised  their wealth.

2-    Critics support that this process has brought the exploitation of the people in the developing countries and  as a result  a lot of problems  and few benefits are produced, such as the wealth is concentrated among the most of  the developed countries and only the 25 per cent  of the internationa linvestments goes to the poor countries.

Besides, there are too many currents of thought which defends that this process goes beyond economy and also includes culture, helping the cultural imperialism threatening  against the particular people identity.

To sum up, we can say  globalization takes with itself advantages and disadvantages.

  
Benefits:

       -  Free movement of goods and products.

          - Reduction of the inflation.

       -  Increase in Foreign Investment.

           - Technological development.

        - Cultural Exchange

·       For instance some countries which have benefited from globalization are:

 -India: wchic has reduced by half the rate of poverty in the last two decades.

      -China: the reform has led to the greater decline in the poverty of the history, the  number of                poors  in rural areas fell or declined and worsen from 250 million in 1978 to 34 million nowadays.

       
         .Drawbacks:

      - Increase of unemployment

      - Loss of traditional cultural identities

      -  Globalization of crime

      - Increase in the consumption of energy and natural resources

      
        For example :

        Many African countries have not benefited at all,  its exports are more or less the same.

     

       So far, my explanation has arrived. What about you?, Which is your opinion??