impacts of globalisation on culture

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  • Positives of globalisation?
    Provides jobs-women empowerment, cheap goods for consumers, TNC's develop an area, increases the economy-more money thus can fund schemes to avoid exploitation and sweat shops
  • Negatives of globalisation?
    Exploitation, independent retailers shut, loss of an areas sense of place
  • Positive impact of globalisation?
    Globalisation has allowed for economic growth, poverty reduction and general development for some countries. It has been estimated that the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in the developing world has declined. There has also been the creation of jobs for unskilled labour in developing nations, which has allowed them to elevate themselves. Economic growth also results in governments putting greater investments into infrastructure and also increases the quality and availability of public services.
  • Social (benefit) impact of global shift?
    Education has improved across Asia
    Millions of graduate degrees are presented by over 2500 universities in China, India and South Korea alone
    Asian countries play a vital role in the quaternary sector
  • Explain one reason why many people in the developed world support the global shift of industry?
    • Businesses outsource to Asia to save money as wage costs are lower so profits will increase and the business can then invest in infrastructure or new designs.
  • Environmental impacts of globalisation?
    • TNCs look for low-cost locations for their factories and a lack of environmental and health and safety regulations is an attractive feature
    • An example of the environmental impacts of this global shift is in Indonesia:
    • 100,000 hectares of rainforest is lost each year to make way for palm oil plantations and mining
    • The large scale burning of forest has led to smoke pollution and more mammal species are more at risk here than in any other country
  • What are 2 examples of the environmental impacts of globalisation, affecting people's health and wellbeing?
    • In China, workers were poisoned by chemicals that are used to treat the glass for iPhones
    • In the Ivory Coast, tens of thousands of people were taken ill after toxic waste was dumped by a ship which was alleged to produce hydrogen sulphide
  • Social costs of globalisattion?
    • Global shift creates problems for developed countries too
    • Deindustrialisation in inner city areas has led to social and environmental problems
    • Dereliction resulting from the closure and abandonment of factories, shutting down of services and neglected housing
    • Depopulation as large numbers of people migrate from the deteriorating urban areas
    • Rising crime in deprived urban areas
    • High unemployment as a result of factories closing, losing manufacturing jobs 
  • what is cultural imperialism?
    the forced spread culture e.g languages, religions, and customs were spread around the world by the British empire
  • What is cultural diffusion?
    The spread of cultural beliefs, ideas, and practices from one society to another.