globalization

GLOBALIZATION IN HISTORY

• Silk Road
• Globalization in history affects people because people learn about how the world got so connected

COMMUNICATION

• Someone in Nigeria can talk to someone in New York
• This affects people because you have relationships with people after they move

TRAVEL

• Each year, millions of people move from one country to another in search of work.
• This affects people because you don't have to just live in one area you can go were ever

POPULAR Culture

• People in the United States enjoy listening to South African music and reading Japanese comic books. American soap operas are popular in Israel.
• This affects people because people get you are not stuck with one type of art

ECONOMY

• American software companies, such as Microsoft, rely on international trade to make large profits.
• This affects people because business can make money off over anyone

Politics

• Countries frequently cooperate to enact trade agreements
• This affects people because there is more peace with people

Pros of globalization

• People can respond to natural disasters quicker
• Advance medicines or more available to people
• It creates jobs for people in poverty
• Big companies invest and poor countries giving those poor countries more money

CONS OF Globalization

• Some people worry western cultures might destroy other cultures
• Outsourcing can cause wealthy countries to lose too many jobs
• Lack of concern for the environment & for conserving natural resources by multinational companies & developing countries
• Making products in countries like China puts US technologies at risk of being copied or stolen because countries like China don't enforce patents