GLOBALIZATION

Globalization is when ideas, knowledge, restaurants, clothing, goods, and more get spread and more countries have them, or have access to them.

TOPIC 1

• Topic: Communication
• Cell Phones
• The picture in the background represents communication because cell phones are a very big part of that in modern times, and contribute to globalization a lot.
• This is from the social category of PERSIA because it helps family and friends and people all over be more social and talk with each other.

TOPIC 2

• Topic: Travel
• Vacations
• The image in the background represents this because it has a passport, which is often needed to travel internationally as well as travel guides for many different countries all over the world, where you would spread your culture and they would want to accommodate you by possibly making it more like your home country, which is globalization.

TOPIC 2 (CONTINUED)

• This shows the social category of PERSIA because you would learn more about those people as well as their culture and ideas.

TOPIC 3

• Topic: Popular Culture
• Clothes
• The picture represents popular culture because the shoe brand is very popular all over the world, and that is just one example of how clothes can become the same or similar globally.
• This is an example of social because people become similiar through clothing brands by communicating, but this could also be economic because the most popular clothing brands are getting the most money

TOPIC 3 (CONTINUED)

• This is an example of social because people become similiar through clothing brands by communicating, but this could also be economic because the most popular clothing brands are getting the most money

PROS OF GLOBALIZATION

• People can share ideas and knowledge
• People can respond to natural disasters faster
• People can communicate all over the world, because many people have forms of communication, made available through globalization

CONS

• Cultures are being lost
• Financial disaster could cause a chain reaction and spread to multiple countries, instead of staying at the origin country.

FLEX

• Europe to return refugees to war-plagued Afghanistan from Star Tribune newspaper
• The article was about European countries sending many people from Afghanistan back to their country after they tried to claim asylum, but were denied. There have been many immigrants recently with the war in Afghanistan.
• This globalization is negative because these countries could fail with too many immigrants.