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Pages:5 (1703 words)
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Subject:World Studies
Topic:Globalization
Document Type:Term Paper
Document:#29725390
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James, P. Australian Social Attitudes Australian Humanities Review 2006 avaliable online: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-April-2006/james.html
Globalisation is often portrayed as a process of economic, political and cultural homogenisation
Arnoldy, B. Australia at the crossroads of globalization http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0307/p01s03-wogi.html
James, P. Australian Social Attitudes Australian Humanities Review 2006 avaliable online: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-April-2006/james.html
Globalisation is often portrayed as a process of economic, political and cultural homogenisation
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Q2. From an American perspective, it is tempting to look out at the world and to assume that American culture now dominates and reigns over all, given the seeming ubiquity of American movies, television, and music. However, a cultural analysis of many regions of the world yields the finding that culture is far more regional and pluralistic in nature. For example, in Mexico, soap operas known as telenovelas captivate almost the
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Globalization and National Security While the economic benefits of globalization have been frequently discussed, the very serious national security vulnerabilities which have arisen as a result of increase interconnections, both economically and socially, has garnered much less attention. The current literature on globalization either omits national security discussions entirely, or conducts them from a relatively myopic perspective The 2010 National Security Strategy attempts to rectify this, but its seems to have little effect
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Globalization of Agriculture, Food Production and Resources The Ideology and the Reality of Food Production and Agriculture Green is good. Buy organic. Down with genetically modified 'franken foods'! Such environmentalist assertions have the ring of modern truisms. Often, the impetus to recycling can have a moral drive to the way that the ideology is enforced upon every street corner, from the shrill wastebaskets that proclaim 'for cans and bottles only' to the
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McDonaldization Directly linked with cultural globalization and actually deriving from the basic concepts at the forefront of globalized culture - glocalization and grobalization - is McDonaldization. The term is generically used to present the strategies implemented by the American fast food chain in 'conquering' the world, strategies which are now more broadly applied by other companies in various industries. And their strategies are worth analyzing. In Russia for instance, the
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Safety standards are highly ignored in order to save the overall costs and produce cheap goods and products (Collier, Dollar & World Bank, 2002). The globalization has also intensified and elevated the level of competition due to which job insecurity, in particular has become one of the major determinants of globalization. While comparing the results of the previous and recent researches, one can easily enlighten that few decades back, employment
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Globalization has greatly weakened the traditional way in which governments functioned. The ever increasing economic integration has had an impact on the autonomy and power of existing national governments and given greater access to other non-state political and economic actors. (Steger, 2004) Every human order in the past has lived off a shared image of the world view that served to plant the feet of its members tightly in time