GLOBALIZATION?
What
globalization?
by Andrew Rossiter
Like it or not, globalization is here to stay. The question is not "Should it continue?"
but "How can it work for everyone?"
Words/phrases in
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are explained in the
general word guide
below: words in
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are
explained in the specific
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.
Mention the word "globalization", and you
are likely to
get a reaction.
Globalization, the creation of a new world economic
system dominated by
huge
corporations
and the "
G8
" nations, is
an idea that has its
fervent
supporters and
its
bitter
opponents.
For
its opponents,
globalization
is seen as
a system designed to
impose
the
American
economic model
on the whole world, for the
sole
benefit
of the USA and a few other
rich countries. For
its supporters, globalization is the way forward
to a better world, where
everyone will
ultimately
be
better off
than they are today.
Globalization is a
process
about which both supporters and opponents can justify some of their
arguments. Yet in spite of the hopes
of many of its critics, there is one thing about which there can
no longer be any doubt. "Globalization" is not a future development that we can accept or reject; it
is a process that has
already largely taken place; and it is one from which - in
all but
the most
catastrophic future
scenarios -