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This 5 page paper discusses why community and youth leaders need to understand globalization. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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probably is to define what globalization is, and there we run into difficulties almost immediately, since there is no one specific, agreed-upon definition of the word. Its usually understood as
a term that is used to describe the "spread and connectedness of production, communication and technologies across the world" (Smith and Smith, 2007). The world-wide spread of these things has
"involved the interlacing of economic and cultural activity" (Smith and Smith, 2007). This type of international interaction has been going on and for centuries, but what has changed now is
the speed and complexity of these interactions: "The speed of communication and exchange, the complexity and size of the networks involved, and the sheer volume of trade, interaction and risk
give what we now label as globalization a peculiar force" (Smith and Smith, 2007). The increasing connections among countries with regard to economics have engendered political changes as well; specifically,
"poorer, peripheral, countries have become even more dependent on activities in central economies such as the USA" (Smith and Smith, 2007). There has also been as shift away from the
nation-states as primary actors, towards global corporations as the main players (Smith and Smith, 2007). In addition, the "brand" is now also a globalized commodity; that is, Coca Cola, Nike
and other products are sold everywhere from New York to Paris to Peking (Smith and Smith, 2007). Another component to globalization is that of social relations; in fact, one
writer described globalization as "the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and
vice versa" (Smith and Smith, 2007). National boundaries mean less and less as society becomes international; thus globalization impacts everyone economically, culturally, socially and politically (Smith and Smith, 2007). What
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