Monday, 16 January 2012


Globalization is the unity of political, economic and cultural values on a global level. However, this concept is a double edged sword, seeing as countries domination and influence on globalization varies in deference to their wealth. Thus, this phenomenon might abdicate or silences the existence of less powerful countries that are considered to still be in development.

In fact, globalization from my understanding does not exert much advantages .Nevertheless, it does allow the mixture and exposition of different cultures and the inter-breeding of various cultures, and it also allows economic prosperity throughout international commerce and trade. Furthermore, as of February 2011, it is argued that threw the application of globalization economic growth has touched countries located in Asia and Africa which will result in an improvement to health standards and an incline of political incidents.
On the other hand, this theory engenders a series of consequences such as, the risk of the dissolution of cultural individualism seeing as the more dominant countries will enforce their cultures upon more vulnerable ones. Also, Multinational Corporations are currently developing strategy in which they create extensions and offices in developing countries in consequence to the flexibility of their labour laws and environmental restrictions, hence forth these corporations exploit workers to the maximum, disposal of dangerous waste illegally , destruction of natural resources, and snatching away the opportunity of smaller business to be able to prosper and develop.

Frankly, I do believe that globalization will obstruct the progress of developing countries, if political and economic power of the world is withheld generally by the wealthiest of countries this will surely give less space for more feeble countries to be able to evolve at their own pace and mature solely, each country should have the right to build its own economy and possess their own set of values, believes and culture, because what humans can’t understand is that you cannot enforce a uniform ‘’way of life’’ or ‘’way of thinking’’, humans were not endowed with the bliss of ‘the mind’ for it to copy paste information but to allow each individual to grow in his own unique way.

  I stand neutral to this perception. My understanding and comprehension of the subject is only limited to one article, thus I cannot base an expedient or even reliable opinion or point of view regarding this theory. However, I do believe that globalization can be an ameliorative element if we apply it correctly if each country is not blinded by its own greed and personal benefits and aims only to the elevation of global standards instead.


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