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A 9 page consideration of the impacts of globalization. The author details both the positive impacts of globalization and the negative and provides insight into how individuals, businesses, and nations deal with those impacts. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Globalization is variously regarded as one of the most positive factors in current world affairs and one of the most
negative. Even the definition of globalization is sometimes debated. Foreign Policy (2001, 56), however, contends that "there seems to be a consensus that globalization is defined by increasing
levels of interdependence over vast distances". Critics have contended that globalization also goes hand in hand with the loss of individual identity. This loss occurs not just on
a state level but also on a personal level. Naomi Kleins "No Logo" brings this message home exceedingly well. According to Klein globalization is just one more means
of the powerful controlling the less powerful. She contends that with globalization the: "individual
is reduced to a negligible quantity, perhaps less in his consciousness than in his practice and in the totality of his obscure emotional states"
The obvious question is how do individuals deal with such a reduction? How do they maintain some semblance of their
individuality when the entire world it seems is intent on destroying that individuality? Kleins (2001, 422) answer is that the individual has to work furiously to "preserve his most
personal core". The consequence is an exaggeration of the personal element (Klein, 2001). Despite that exaggeration, however, the forces of globalization continue on and the "gap between the
global haves and have nots, as well as the absence of democracy in so many parts of the world" continue to become more and more blatant (Klein, 2001, 112).
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