Americanization

Globalization is the big bang of our civilization. Some people doesn’t even believe in its existence, others are arguing over the point when it all started. Its there, as tangible and lively as our sun, directly impacting our daily lives. With the development of technology, especially in term of communication, people are now able to share their ideas, exchange their cultures, execute trades under an unimaginably fast process called globalization. Regarding as an inevitable change of mankind, although globalization may seemed to bring vast benefits and prosperities to majority of people, it has its limitations and weaknesses , hence raises worries and pestimistism amongst some authors. To judge whether the cost of globalization is greater than the benefits it brings, one must consider the three most important areas it affects : the environment, the economic and the traditional values of a country. In their essays” Lesson from
Lost worlds” , “The Climate For Change”, authors like Jared Diamond and Al Gore point out their concerns over how globalization is changing the environment with their questions and solutionsto this matter. For economical analysis of globalization , we will look at three different essays. The first one is “ Globalization” , by Anthony Giddens, who decide that American is the dominating force in this era of globalization. The second essay is “ The Rise Of The Rest” by
Fareed Zakaria, who have a completely opposite idea of globalization with Giddens. He shows that the power is shifting away from American, towards countries like China, Brazil.. And the final essay is “The Noble Feat Of Nike”, writen by Johan Norberg, who went to South East Asia to discover that multination company with bad reputation in their homeland , Nike, is actually making a positive impression by improving and creating new opportunities for workers in
Vietnam. In term of cultural identities, “Bored With USA?” by Brendon O’Connor, “In