Globalization in Cultural Anthropological Impacts
GREED IS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION
What Is Globalization? In Culture Counts, Nanda and Warms define globalization as the creation of an interdependent world. They proceed, especially in late chapters to better define this idea as the basic premise of the West, and rich nations in general, taking advantage of and basically recolonizing the rest of the world. Of course, as an American student with, basically, Anglo parents, this can be disconcerting and what’s more it is contrary to everything we’ve ever been taught about our great country. I will try to discern what is misleading and what is trustworthy as we travel through this maze of differing opinions on our way to a conclusions as to just how globalization has impacted our world and why the United States is most often blamed for these changes.
Positives & Negatives of Globalization
Although the obvious benefits of globalization are an interdependent world, at first glance it is hard to see just how sharing our resources globally to produce goods efficiently could be bad or even hazardous to anyone. Globalization, by definition, seems to bring us together. However as Nanda and Warms point out globalization has created great disparities in wealth, healthcare and education worldwide, they note further “The distances created by inequality dwarf those of mere distance” (307).
The globalization of businesses and indeed governments has seemed to create an elite class of corrupt leaders. Whether they be of the oligarchy from the Western hemisphere or the rich-over-night due to bribery dictator the true change in world economy can only be measured in dollars transferred to immoral regimes.
However, there is always a rainbow after the storm and in the case of globalization it seems as though the opening of foreign markets to give opportunities to those in need of work has decreased unemployment in many third-world countries while providing cheaper goods to the Western world. Multi-national Corporations
What Is Globalization? In Culture Counts, Nanda and Warms define globalization as the creation of an interdependent world. They proceed, especially in late chapters to better define this idea as the basic premise of the West, and rich nations in general, taking advantage of and basically recolonizing the rest of the world. Of course, as an American student with, basically, Anglo parents, this can be disconcerting and what’s more it is contrary to everything we’ve ever been taught about our great country. I will try to discern what is misleading and what is trustworthy as we travel through this maze of differing opinions on our way to a conclusions as to just how globalization has impacted our world and why the United States is most often blamed for these changes.
Positives & Negatives of Globalization
Although the obvious benefits of globalization are an interdependent world, at first glance it is hard to see just how sharing our resources globally to produce goods efficiently could be bad or even hazardous to anyone. Globalization, by definition, seems to bring us together. However as Nanda and Warms point out globalization has created great disparities in wealth, healthcare and education worldwide, they note further “The distances created by inequality dwarf those of mere distance” (307).
The globalization of businesses and indeed governments has seemed to create an elite class of corrupt leaders. Whether they be of the oligarchy from the Western hemisphere or the rich-over-night due to bribery dictator the true change in world economy can only be measured in dollars transferred to immoral regimes.
However, there is always a rainbow after the storm and in the case of globalization it seems as though the opening of foreign markets to give opportunities to those in need of work has decreased unemployment in many third-world countries while providing cheaper goods to the Western world. Multi-national Corporations
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