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What is Globalisation?

Learning objectives• Know what globalisation is.

• Understand the impact of

globalisation .

• Know the main aspects of globalisation.

• The process by which people, their cultures, money, goods and information can be transferred between countries with few or no barriers.

• Because of these breakdowns in barriers, many different places become interdependent on each other.

What is Globalisation?

Aspects of Globalisation?

Is this globalisation?

Technology - Dell Laptops

Culture - Disney

Economic - McDonalds

What has made this happen?

• The world is effectively shrinking.

• Information, goods and services can now be transferred much more quickly.

• The cost of communication has fallen.

What do you think this image represents?

Is globalisation a good or bad thing?

• Globalisation should be a good thing – but as the rules are made by the rich and powerful, the results favour them.

• This doesn’t mean that globalisation is bad, necessarily. It means that there are issues which globalisation won’t necessarily fix….

What is a Trans-National Company (TNC)?

• A trans-national company (TNC) is a huge company that does business in several countries.

• Many TNCs are much richer than entire countries in the less developed world.

• TNC’s can provide work and enrich a country's economy - or some say they can exploit the workers with low pay and destroy the environment.

Examples of TNC’s

Other aspects of globalisation

• Interdependence• First World vs. Third World

– Chilean fruit (1989. It was a sabotage)

• The League of Nations• The United Nations• Other International Organisations:

– Universal Postal and International Telecommunications

• New trading nextworks

Globalisation and the threats to the environment.

• Population

• War and refugees

• Nuclear Power

• Global Warming

• Ozone Layer

• Mega-Cities

• RainforestsLast slide

Comments on the forum•  ”Years ago when the world wide web didn’t exist

people had to search information manually and it was more job than now that only takes typing on google and making click to copy and paste”

• “Isn´t it ridiculous that fruits or vegetables from other countries are cheaper than the locals”

•  ”I had a computer when I was 6-7 years old but I didn’t have internet.”

•  ”It has also helped me to get to know about other countries culture and what is happening all over the world, for example the ebola in Africa, the protests in China and things that are happening in the world.”

Comments on the forum•  ”if I have a problem and I want to discuss it with some

friend or my sister for example, they aren't paying attention to me at all if they have their cellphones in their hands connected to internet, and this is very annoyable and also unrespectful…”

• “we need to balance the good and bad things that internet and globalization give us.”

• “here in Chile there are some machines that have helped to people that I know, to treat their illnesses.”

•  ”Google Maps and Street View”• “Also, we can learn how to cook or a new language

just watching videos in Youtube”

Comments on the forum•  ”all those things that we do day by day, I mean, from

those clothes that we wear, to what we eat…the things that we watch on Television, to the way we behave so…”

• “I think that nowadays it could be difficult for us living without globalization , we are the whole consumers of this process which is advancing every day with new innovations and many other things that maybe we could have on a future.”

•  ”it help us to communicate, but also helps to search information for our homeworks and those type of things. ”

Comments on the forum• “Now, regarding to what happen in my daily life, it

helps me in a variety of ways and also affects me in bad ways sometimes.”

• “I am agry” (?????)•  ”the rich are more rich and the poor work more and

are more poor”• “technology has an important space in a normal day,

from my cellphone and laptop to my digital clock and mp3, making my life simpler, more entertaining. “Technology also influences in the way I communicate with my family, friends, acquaintances, etc.”

Comments on the forum•  ”there are many huge cities that in the past were very small, for

example, in Iquique there is a great influence of the globalization, ideas that come from other cities of other countries, it started with a few of houses and now there are many buildings and it has not stopped to expand, the city is becoming bigger… ”

• “…If we compare our present to passed decades and years, we can say that people used to have a more complicated and slower life, some of them living in ignorance of the things that surrunded them, but they were more focused in the importance of the relationships between them. People used to value more the company and the time with their loved ones, different from our speedy lifestyle, full of "distance" between us.”

Comments on the forum• “downfall of local markets and shops”• “globalization always favors the rich more than people

of other low social classes.”• “air pollution ”•  ”makes people able to have access to things that they

couldn't have before.”• “many people believe that globalization is affecting our

local economy”• “Oh I can talk with a friend from France, I can download 100 of applications

on my computer" but we do not think in the contamination that the industries produce, bad working conditions, hard work at change of low salaries, abuse of power of powerful countries, etc. ”

Let’s wacth a video now…

Project: Taking care of the environment Project: Taking care of the environment

(more detailed instructions on the WKI: (more detailed instructions on the WKI: http://cultureandcivilization.wikispaces.com))

With your group, choose one aspect of your life that can be improved in order to help the environment.

It should consider:

Energy saving

Reciclying

Leading a healthier lifestyle.

Prepare a report video presentation about an improvement you’ve made.