Tuesday, September 23, 2008

After my reading of those new texts my conception of globalization has improved from the latest. In fact I have come to the state that globalization is not only the ability for people, ideas and commodities to move with less barriers but also disabilities and injustices it has created.
Globalization is normally supposed to include all parts of the world but it is not the case. Some areas have been left apart because of being economically uninteresting such as some underdeveloped countries which do not present any interest to exploit.
Globalization belongs to the capitalism and therefore it does not care about whether its acts can have drawbacks or not on people around. For instance, it makes some main raw materials out of reach for developing countries. Developed countries also subsidy their agricultures such as it is impossible for African agriculture to compete with them in the international market.
This global system is made such as only the wealthy can rule. Thus, making developed countries the one that take advantage it. For instance they fix the price they buy the raw materials from developing countries and they also fix the price they sell it back into manufactured products.
Globalization is less barriers as we have said previously, but it actually only involve westerners. People from developing countries are even feeling more and more obstacles to move around the globe.
To conclude I come to question myself whether or not globalization is profitable to all us? Isn’t it a new way to take advantage of the third world? I seriously doubt.

1 comment:

something said...

Down to the bottomline it seems globalization is a utensal for capitalist (developed nations) to cover the true nature of the economic flow. Not so long ago almost everyone had in mind through propaganda and other means that globalization was a big step forward for the world as a whole. It was moving attention away from the actual problems, giving the impression that the west was truly helping developing nations. It is not completly surprising though, politics is formed this way.