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This 5-page paper focuses on the difficulty of ethics and competition when it comes to globalization. The paper takes its cue from the movie "Darwin's Nightmare." Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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it wouldnt reproduce. The Hubert Sauper movie "Darwins Nightmare" takes the concept of survival of the fittest to extremes, detailing the introduction of Nile perch into Lake Victoria in Africa,
how that voracious perch devoured everything (even its own young) and killed off an ecosystem, and how the catching and sale of this fish is both supplying the economy of
this part of Tanzania while destroying other parts of Africa. How is this happening? The fish is being exchanged for weapons, which find their way among tribal warlords, who, in
turn, destroy villages, create famine and so on. The fishermen who are retrieving the Nile perch from Lake Victoria one day could learn, the next, that a distant relative might
have been shot by one of the guns exchanged for the fish. Saupers statement is an ironic one on Darwins survival of the fittest. The fittest are surviving, all right.
The problem is, theyre killing off everyone else. Darwins Nightmare can be taken in the literal sense - it can also be taken
as an interesting representation about globalization. While globalization can benefit one group of countries and one group of stakeholders, it can also end up harming other parties involved in the
manufacture and export of items. This is not a new concept when it comes to globalization - if we examine anything and
everything about globalization, we see that while the concept benefits one nation, another struggles. Those major companies that have plants in third-world nations have experienced this first-hand, with Nike, for
example, coming under the gun. While it has saved money by outsourcing manufacturing processes to third-world nations, those nations are experiencing the downside, from child labor, to environmental concerns.
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