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Globalization: Making Society Better One Term Paper
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Subject:World Studies
Topic:Globalization
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The result has been newfound freedoms of speech, freedom of travel and incredibly, freedom of dissent, even to small extent. Globalization is the fule that nations need to find what their true competitive strengths are. Coddling nations through protectionism and subsidies is like taking protein or iron from their diets; over time, they will atrophy and die due to a lack of infusion of capital, competitive vibrancy and growth. In short, globalization's effects on nations is to make them capable enough to seize freedoms that myopic and ill-advised anti-globalization activists would seek to rob from them through protectionism and ignorance that any given nations' ability to grow is based on its ability to globally compete.
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