Globalization
Participate in an asynchronous assignment. You are strongly encouraged to view the live Seminar archive for this week’s Discussion. Many students find this live discussion very helpful because your instructor will clarify the Seminar information and your classmates may pose questions that you also have about the material.
You should create your Seminar responses in MS Word. Your response to the topics below should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs and be 200 – 300 words in length. Save your answers and submit them to the Unit 3: Seminar Dropbox. The Dropbox is located at the top of this class on the gray toolbar. Be sure to complete all questions to earn your Seminar points.
Many feel that globalization is synonymous with “Americanization.” In other words, since the 60s, the western way of life has rapidly spread across the globe. There is not a city in the world now where you cannot find a McDonalds, Pizza Hut, KFC, and, of course, blue jeans.After completing your reading, viewing the video lessons, and familiarizing yourself with the terms and concepts for this unit, please write a short paper addressing the impact of the global spread of capitalism that attends to the following questions:
- If we are indeed becoming a “global village” with western beliefs, values, norms, and such, what place is there for other nations’ beliefs, customs, and traditions?
- Is it unethical for the American government to engage in global trade with countries that degrade women, imprison political dissidents, censor information, and the like?
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Due to globalization, the western culture has been utilized as the yard stick into judgment of the other cultures in the world. It results to the unenthusiastic assessment of the beliefs, customs and traditions of the other nations. Western culture has become dominant over the rest of the world. It is for this reason that globalization has led to the loss of nationalism in those countries…………
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