Excerpts and Quotes Concerningglobalization
Excerpts and quotes concerningGlobalization
Source: Herbert Buchsbaum, “Living in a Global Economy,” Scholastic Update, March 7, 1997 / Student Analysis. . . Welcome to the mixed-up world of “globalization”—a growing worldwide marketplace where business transactions routinely span the planet and national borders are growing fuzzier and fuzzier. It wasn’t always this way. Chances are, your parents wore American-made clothes, ate American-made food, and drove American-made cars. But a boom in world trade has changed all that. And what you buy may be the least of it. The expansion of world trade has unleashed a multitude of dramatic changes. Whole countries have seen their fortunes soar as foreign investment has poured in, creating factories and providing jobs for millions of people. Other countries have been left behind. In the process, billions of lives are affected, for better and worse. . . . / Why does the author use the term mixed-up when describing globalism?
Source: Larry Elder – TV and radio personality / Student Analysis
Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment and increases productivity and job creation / What is this author’s opinion of globalism? Support with evidence from quote
Source: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents, W. W. Norton & Co., 2003 / Student Analysis
. . . TODAY, GLOBALIZATION IS being challenged around the world. There is discontent with globalization, and rightfully so. Globalization can be a force for good: the globalization of ideas about democracy and of civil society have changed the way people think, while global political movements have led to debt relief and the treaty on land mines. Globalization has helped hundreds of millions of people attain higher standards of living, beyond what they, or most economists, thought imaginable but a short while ago. The globalization of the economy has benefited countries that took advantage of it by seeking new markets for their exports and by welcoming foreign investment. Even so, the countries that have benefited the most have been those that took charge of their own destiny and recognized the role government can play in development rather than relying on the notion of a self-regulated market that would fix its own problems. But for millions of people globalization has not worked. Many have actually been made worse off, as they have seen their jobs destroyed and their lives become more insecure. They have felt increasingly powerless against forces beyond their control. They have seen their democracies undermined, their cultures eroded. If globalization continues to be conducted in the way that it has been in the past, if we continue to fail to learn from our mistakes, globalization will not only not succeed in promoting development but will continue to create poverty and instability. Without reform, the backlash that has already started will mount and discontent with globalization will grow. . . . / According to the author; what are some effects of globalization?
Why does the author’s tone change towards the end of this excerpt?
Source: Xi Jinping - vice president of China speaking in Washington DC in February 12, 2012 / Student Analysis
As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States / What is the author’s main point?
Source: Arundhati Roy,The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile: Conversations with Arundhati Roy / Student Analyisis
“We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but about the psychology of globalization. It's like the psychology of a battered woman being faced with her husband again and being asked to trust him again. That's what is happening. We are being asked by the countries that invented nuclear weapons and chemical weapons and apartheid and modern slavery and racism - countries that have perfected the gentle art of genocide, that colonized other people for centuries - to trust them when they say that they believe in a level playing field and the equitable distribution of resources and in a better world. It seems comical that we should even consider that they really mean what they say.” / What does the author mean by the ‘psychology of globalization’?
Source: Sharon Begley speech at an Earth Day celebration / Student Analysis
A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell company (Shell Oil and gasoline)has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.
/ How far do you agree with the author’s point?
Jimmy Carter former president of the United States / Student Analysis
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
/ What effects could you see happening if the author’s point is, indeed, a fact?