impact of globalisation exaggerated

• Theme 1: Against - economic globalisation

  • opening up of global markets to free trade
  • china and india have achieved rapid economic growth in the past several years or decades
  • in 1990, 43% of the population of developing countries lived in extreme poverty the absolute number was 1.9 billion, by 2000 proportion wa s down to a third and by 2010 21%
  • about 9.2% today of the world live in extreme poverty on less than $1.90 a day
  • global poverty rate cut in half in 20 years
  • companies can offer goods at lower prices to consumers
• Theme 1: For

  • people living in communities that had been dependent on jobs outsourced elsewhere often suffer
  • working conditions of people in the supply chain are deplorable
  • garment industry in bangladesh - employs an estimated four million people but average worker earns less in a month than US worker earns in a day
  • 2013 - textile factory building collapsed killing more than 1,100 workers
  • globalisation may contribute to income disparity and inequality between more and less educated
  • since 1922 income inequality has deepened in india
• Theme 2: For - cultural globalisation

  • people anywhere in the world participate in the same homogenised global culture
  • global domination of American countries - mcdonalds operating in 188 countries
  • Americanisation is the globalisation of languages with english now being seen as the language of the world
  • around the word netflix has 222 million subscribers
  • with these cultural assets comes 'westernised' ideals of democracy, freedom and individualism makes people more susceptible to liberal views
• Theme 2: Against

  • in the united states, economic globalisation and the dislocation it has caused has led to a strong strain of white cultural assertion - resisting foreign cultures
  • in europe there is a reassertion of monocultural values, hungary and poland for example
  • rise to islamic political expression due to muslims encountering worldwide challenges in their social, cultural, political, economic and even family systems - vocally endorse certain necessary values in each of these systems for well being of its followers
  • rise of chinese/russian power, e.g of backlash to cultural globalisation
• Theme 3: Against - political globalisation

  • amount of political co-operation that exists between different countries
  • world food programme assists 80 million people in around 80 countries each year - leading humanitarian organisation saving lives
  • political agreements between nations lead to relaxing of the movement of labor across boundaries
  • example: freedom of movement of people around 27 european union states
  • key goal of political globalisation is to create better trade routes around the world
  • declining role of nation states, ceded some power and responsibility to international bodies
• Theme 3: For

  • britain chose to leave eu because they were unhappy that they were tied to european rules around
  • while within trade block - uk had to stick to requirements that they felt restricted their fishing industry
  • the us trade war with china has ignored the WTO
  • great powers are not going to be hemmed in by political global governance organisations, russia invaded ukraine, america iraq, china represses the uyghurs