Doran Porter,
Globalization is everywhere and it
affects everyone. Personally I feel the effect of globalization every
day. If I look at the tags on my clothes I can see that many are made
in countries that are not the United States. For example one of my
T-shirts are made in Taiwan and another made in Nicaragua. Even the
Realtree jacket I got from Cabelas was made in China. Now their style
may be American, but every time I wake up and put my clothes on
technically I am not wearing American clothes. Another example is my
phone or iPod or computer. The technology and knowledge that is in
thous devices come from all over the world. Some smart dude in South
Korea designed my Samsung phone and it works just fine. Maybe the
main reason we have the technology we have today is thanks to
Globalization for letting the great minds from all over the world
share and think together. But just like globalization is good and bad
the way it affects me is good and bad. The price I pay for gas is
affected by how the government chooses to drill for oil outside of
the Country rather then drill all or oil here in America. We have the
resources and deposits to do it but because of foreign policy and
globalization we don't and the price I pay for gas goes up. Another
simple way globalization affects me is by the music I listen too. You
can search and find a lot of songs on iTunes that are sung in a
different language. Globalization has affected my life.
On a positive note(no pun intended) to globalization is our ability to connect to people through modalities such as music giving us a great way to share culture, values and individualism just at our fingertips! We have a Japanese son through the foreign exchange student program who would sing in the shower to the top of his lungs in Japanese. I too can now download music from Japan that bring back those "good times" or I can find some obscure person in Alabama who has put out one song but that one song speaks to me and I count myself so lucky to have found it.
ReplyDeleteIts true what you said about globalization. I think we could probably even find an American flag that was made in China. For some reason that feels wrong to me but I'm not sure why. But I think its true that everything we use has been affected by globalization. It would be hard to find something that hasn't been affected.
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