What Do You Understand by the Term Globalization
Title : What do you understand by the term globalization? Why has interest in globalization intensified in recent years?
Introduction If searching on Google website and type the word "Globalization", just 0.22 second you will receive a substantial number of nearly 24 million results. This shows that "globalization" is a word being most mentioned in our world today. Globalization has been defined with numerous and widely differing meanings dating back to 1870 as "economic integration through trade, migration, capital flows and communication" (Mann, 2005).Globalization has been defined with numerous and widely differing meanings dating back to 1870 as "Economic integration through trade, migration, communication and Capital Flows" (Mann, 2005).Tuy nhiên cho đến nay, người ta vẫn chưa thể thống nhất về khái niệm toàn cầu hóa. But until now, however, people still can not agree on the concept of globalization. Saskia Sassen writes that "a good part of globalization consists of an enormous variety of micro-processes that begin to denationalize what had been constructed as national — whether policies, capital, political subjectivity, urban spaces, temporal frames, or any other of a variety of dynamics and domains." In his book, David Held has cited some different perceptions about this theory. Some authors claim that the unification between economic and culture has extended the globalization process, others “look at the significance of increases connectedness” (Held, 2004:13). There is also idea which compared globalization with “Americanization” as Gidden argues : “many of the most visible cultural expressions of globalization are American – Coca Cola, McDonald’s, CNN” (Gidden, 2002:15) Những quan điểm khác nhau này phản ánh phạm vi bao trùm và tính phức tạp của toàn cầu hóa.These different views reflect the covering scope and the complexities of globalization. Bao trùm đến nỗi hình như mỗi người đều nhận thấy mình bị toàn cầu hóa tác động theo cách này
Introduction If searching on Google website and type the word "Globalization", just 0.22 second you will receive a substantial number of nearly 24 million results. This shows that "globalization" is a word being most mentioned in our world today. Globalization has been defined with numerous and widely differing meanings dating back to 1870 as "economic integration through trade, migration, capital flows and communication" (Mann, 2005).Globalization has been defined with numerous and widely differing meanings dating back to 1870 as "Economic integration through trade, migration, communication and Capital Flows" (Mann, 2005).Tuy nhiên cho đến nay, người ta vẫn chưa thể thống nhất về khái niệm toàn cầu hóa. But until now, however, people still can not agree on the concept of globalization. Saskia Sassen writes that "a good part of globalization consists of an enormous variety of micro-processes that begin to denationalize what had been constructed as national — whether policies, capital, political subjectivity, urban spaces, temporal frames, or any other of a variety of dynamics and domains." In his book, David Held has cited some different perceptions about this theory. Some authors claim that the unification between economic and culture has extended the globalization process, others “look at the significance of increases connectedness” (Held, 2004:13). There is also idea which compared globalization with “Americanization” as Gidden argues : “many of the most visible cultural expressions of globalization are American – Coca Cola, McDonald’s, CNN” (Gidden, 2002:15) Những quan điểm khác nhau này phản ánh phạm vi bao trùm và tính phức tạp của toàn cầu hóa.These different views reflect the covering scope and the complexities of globalization. Bao trùm đến nỗi hình như mỗi người đều nhận thấy mình bị toàn cầu hóa tác động theo cách này
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