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Globalization

&

You

Globalization

Definition

  • Worldwide movement
  • Involving the integration of
  • financial,
  • economic and
  • communications systems
  • Affecting all people
  • Transfer of good, capital, services and communication
  • Global Village

When did it start?

When did globalization start?

  • Discovery of America?
  • Further back in time?
  • Phenomenon of the modern era?
  • Invention of the telephone?
  • Part of early trading?

What are the results?

What are the results?

  • Traveling
  • Communication:
  • Keeping in touch with friends
  • Contact to business partners 24/7
  • Buying good from far away (strawberries in winter)

Challenges

Challenges

  • Individual cultures might blend into a single global culture (Starbucks in Dubai, Vapiano in London)
  • Development countries: malnutrition
  • Cruel working conditions (textile industry in Bangladesh)
  • Increase of inequality
  • Financial crisis (chain of events)
  • Refugee crisis

= Progress

Economy

  • Fast transportation
  • New means of communication
  • Multinational companies

Economic challenges

Economic challenges

  • Profit before workers' rights & high influence of multinational companies
  • Outsourced jobs
  • Sweatshops (long hours, below minimum wage, no safety standards)
  • Exploiting the poor vs. giving them work
  • No benefit for development countries
  • Western point of view
  • Gap between rich and poor
  • National crisis becomes a global one

Environment

Environmental pollution

Environment

Global

problems

Global problems

  • Exhaust fumes from factories
  • Increased number of vehicles
  • Traveling by plane
  • Food-miles
  • Carbon foodprint
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Biodiversity is threatened
  • Sustainability
  • Kyoto Protocol
  • Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth

Media & Communication

Media & Communication

  • Internet
  • Smartphones
  • Social Media
  • Facebook & elections
  • User rights
  • Data = profit

UN & EU

The UN

&

the EU

  • UN
  • Peacekeeping
  • Peacemaking
  • Humanitarian Aid
  • EU
  • 27 member states (cf. Brexit)
  • Prosperity & social progress
  • Institutions (!)
  • Peacekeeping after 9/11 (Terrorism!)

You

You

  • Studying and working in a globalized world
  • Intercultural learning
  • Volunteering
  • English as lingua franca
  • Changing world of work
  • Mobility
  • Languages
  • Minimum wage vs. living wage
  • Workers' rights
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