Going Global

Unit 1: Going global

Going GlobalGlobalisationGlobal GroupingsGlobal NetworksRootsOn The MoveWorld CitiesGlobal Challenges For The Future

You and your possessions with you nowWhere do they come from ?Where would they have come from 50 years ago?What do you already know about globalisation?What is globalisation? The term globalisation has been used since the 1990s. The IMF defines it as the growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide through increasing volume and variety of cross border transactions in goods and services, freer international capital flows, and more rapid and widespread diffusion of technology. So really it is about how people, their cultures, money, goods and information are transferred between countries so that places and people are becoming more closely linked. Globalisation ideas?National economies are becoming more integrated into a single global economy?Actions and decisions in one part of the world have knock on effects in other parts of the world?The spread and development of technology has fuelled the interdependency?The world is becoming very similar politically with democracy, freedom and free trade?

Cultural globalisation western cultural norms are spreading to other parts of the world?Demographic globalisation increasing migration/movement of people means the greater mixing of ethnicity?Environmental implications?

Not a new idea?People, countries and continent have always been connected in terms of economic, cultural and political ways through:Trade from 1492 when Columbus reached the AmericasColonialism by the end of the 19th century the British empire directly controlled of the world and its peopleCo-operation since WW1 ended in 1918 international organisations similar to todays United Nations have existed. What makes modern (post 1940) globalisation different?Lengthening of connections eg here in Greece we can buy water brought tens of thousands of km from Fiji!Deepening connections ie links with more people and places in all areas of our lives Your food?

Spices the first globally traded productPotato from the Andes, S America, arrived in the UK in Coffee thought to be from EthiopiaTomato originally from PeruTea originating in ChinaChili from S America over 500 years ago

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Tacos in USA

Thailand

The global origins of the Dell laptop P 89 Philip AllanInequality in terms of globalisationP 89 Philip AllanSome low income countries like Mali and Chad have large number of people living in poverty who have shallow global integrationOther middle income countries eg Brazil have great unevenness between the peoplesexperiences of globalisation. The rich elite in Sao Paulo and Rio are highly globalised and even in favelas they follow international football teams and listen to American music etcIn high income nations eg USA, UK most people are affluent consumers of global products and culture. Many are widely travelled and fly overseas. Untouched from globalisation?

Deforestation?Global climate change?

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