Globalization

• Globalization has made it possible for people to access products made abroad, such as cars from China and food from American fast-food chains.
• Globalization has enabled countries to share research and ideas, leading to developments in medicine, even the painkillers we take when we have a headache.
• Globalization has resulted in people following different religions from different cultures, for example, being Hindu but living in Germany.
• Globalization has made it easy to go on holiday to foreign countries.
• Globalization can be defined as the worldwide interaction of people, companies and governments all over the world.
• Globalization has mainly grown with the importance of a capitalist economy.
• Globalization has been pushed forward by technological advances in communication, advances to transportation and changes to international trade.
• Globalization has resulted in an unprecedented amount of communication and teamwork between countries on economic, political and cultural levels.
• Economically, globalization has made it far easier for countries to buy and sell goods abroad.
• Globalization has opened a world of opportunity for businesses, allowing them to operate globally and seek out countries where production is cheaper, thereby making a larger profit.
• Globalization has largely influenced global culture and politics, with smaller countries becoming less important as global issues like climate change have taken centre stage.
• Marine Le Pen, a member of the National Rally (RN; previously the National Front, FN), served as its president from 2011 to 2021.
• Globalization has stereotyped and heightened national and racial identities.
• Globalization has increased the divide between the rich and the middle class and working classes.
• The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the end of the Soviet Union and the toppling of communist regimes in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Romania.
• Globalization has both advantages and disadvantages, including increased prosperity in poorer countries due to outsourcing, more relaxed trade restrictions, and increased cross-cultural sharing.
• Globalization has led to increased immigration, which has led to resentment and fear among some people.
• Globalization has resulted in a global culture, with Western culture being streamed worldwide through western technology, more and more people in more and more countries conforming to a global culture.
• Globalization has accelerated climate change due to the increased global shipping of goods.
• Globalization has also led to the rise of aggressive nationalism and political nationalism, as evidenced by the Brexit vote and the election of US President Donald Trump.
• Remigration = the process of returning to one's country of origin.
• The standard of living of the working class in the west has declined due to globalization.
• Globalization also has disadvantages, such as increased immigration leading to resentment and fear of foreigners among some people, and the rise of political nationalist ideologies.
• France’s far-right party leader Marine Le Pen promised a crackdown on foreigners and the forces of globalisation if she won the 2017 presidential election.
• Globalization has led to the exploitation of countries, fields and workers who export all their produce but are left with water shortages and wells running dry, for example, asparagus from the Peruvian coast which is very dry.
• The greenhouse effect is the process which keeps the Earth warm enough to sustain life.
• The sun produces solar radiation, which travels down to Earth.
• Some of the solar radiation is reflected back into space.
• The Earth absorbs the rest, which warms it.
• Chemicals as a health hazard • Possible solutions – consumers have to consume more carefully, buy less often or buy second-hand clothes– implementation of a minimum wage and safety-standards worldwide – manufacturers should face consequences for mistreatment of workers – brands must make these changes and take responsibility – consumers must express that this is a change they want to see.
• Intro Frage gut für Repro Fragen • Problems – workers are being exploited to make the clothing bought in shops like Zara – appetite for new fashion is growing faster worldwide than the industry and the environment can support it – consumers are spending money that they don’t have on clothes that they don’t need (nicht in Klausur so wörtlich) – suggestion that the fast fashion problem affects women more than it affects men (80% of underpaid garment makers are women) – there are frequent large-scale accidents at factories that have killed thousands of people
• She references hashtags and Instagram, which are used frequently among young people
• Online shopping is also popular among young people
• suggest that we are cutting corners on the future of our planet as well as our purse strings.
• Mediation besteht in der Regel aus 2 Teilen:• einen Rahmen (Ansprache, Anrede, Hinführung zum Thema, Smalltalk; Verabschiedung am Ende, eventuell mit Smalltalk, je nach Aufgabe aber auch einem eigenen Statement zum sprachgemittelten Text)
• Quoting specific incidents to support and humanise her argument
• Im Hauptteil der Mediationsaufgabe muss meist formal gearbeitet werden
• In der Regel kommentieren die S hier nicht, sondern geben die Fakten des Ausgangstextes wieder, formale Aspekte (Autor, Name des Artikels, Veröffentlichkeitsdatum und -ort) in der Regel genannt werden sollten
• She references online retailers like ASOS that are frequently used by young people
• – women are constantly mocked for having an interest in fashion, even though (at least in the UK) men tend to spend more on their clothes than women – women are disproportionately targeted by advertisers – 80% of the estimated 60-75 million garment workers are women who work in dangerous conditions and are not paid a living wage – poverty affects women more than men globally (more than 70% of the world’s poorest people are said to be women)