Globalisation part 1

Many countries intrigue their share especially on industries in the international market. According to Simon Jeffery (2002) globalisation makes people easier to do their job in business, or running financial markets. In facts, the world getting smaller because of globalisation, it makes the world work as one big village. Globalisation brings big impacts to this world and it is not just within economics, but almost in every aspect such as in social life, technological, political and cultural structures. For instance places like Koh Samui in Thailand is a place holidaymakers and tourists used to visit to soak up the local eastern culture and basic lifestyle. Now within the main drag running through the town you have tesco supermarkets, Burger King and Mcdonald fast food stores. This is a perfect example of “westernisation” or better known today as “globalisation”. If this is not controlled, a similar case will appear throughout the world. Is this westernization will bring a negative or positive impacts to the country. This essay will discuss the advantages and disadvantages that will cost from globalisation in different aspect such as culture, environment, technology, economics and my area of study. How it is going to create new economic and cultural zones within and across nations.

As it mentioned in the first paragraph, many people believe that globalisation brings many impact in different aspects in life and has become a major issue around the world. It seems almost inevitable; because some people want to change the word in their own way of thinking which sometimes they think it is intellectual to do so. According to Peter joseph, the director from “Zeitgeist the movie” in 2007 the entire world is a stage so there’s must be someone behind the curtain who control this global issues. He also claims 9/11 was create to produce crowd fear, instigate and give good reason for war, and certainly for economic gain. Sometimes people see globalization as improvement and development for a country, as well in another aspect. To some people that lives in develop countries globalisation may bring a solution to their economical problems. In the other hand, it will bring poverty, inequality and dramatically bring a war to this world. Therefore globalisation processes involve a lot of conflicts and discrepancy, which generates contradictory expectations (Modelsky et al. 1999).

It would seem natural to think that the growth of international market around the world brings gap in life of the rich and the poor or so we called inequality. In the last past ten years it is generally agreed that international trade has been a generator in the world economy. It will gather different type of people and organisation that have dissimilar values and helps developing countries to promote and sell their products to a bigger company from another country. For example, a big round diamond necklace that divestitures in a famous jewellery store in UK. The big rounded diamond was founded in South Africa that has been known as the world’s major gem quality diamond producers. Diamonds dealer from that country buy the diamond and looking for someone or another company whom wants to but it. Diamond Company from US buys that diamond and brings it to German to do a process of cutting and polishing. Germany is known as a first country that found a way to cut and polish a diamond and led to the development of various types of cut. After that, they delivered the diamond to a jewellery shop in Hong kong to design and build it. Finally the diamond company from US sells the beautiful diamond necklace to a famous jewellery shop in UK. This situation seems bring a positive effect to lots of people or company. In the other hand, is this situation really fair to the man who found the diamond in the first place because usually this diamond dealer buy it in the very low price or is this fair to the diamond dealer because the bigger company from US also buy the diamond lower than the price in the market and so forth. According to Simon Jeffery (2002), if these practices change domestic economic life with an economy that is controlled from other countries, then the method of globalisation means keeping poorer nations in their place.