2/4 Readings

 Overall I think the readings did a good job explaining what globalization is, how it started to take place, and the impact it has on people and their countries. While reading the first chapter I got a deeper understanding of what globalization is and my new definition of globalization is, the process of countries and businesses deciding that they have to increase the amount of money that they are making and doing that by selling goods to other countries. This can be seen as a good thing because the countries and businesses are doing what they have to do in order to make money to survive, but there are problem this causes for the poorer people in those communities, which chapter 2 goes into. Chapter 2 explains why businesses and countries goin into the process of globalization at the cost of the poorer people in those areas. With businesses always reaching to make more money, they are making the gap between the people that have money and the people that don't bigger without realizing it. Chapter 2 also explains that some states and cities throughout the world have laws in place that mostly benefit the big businesses that are based in those areas. I think this is unfair to the people that live there because the responsibility of the state and city is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the people that live there, but their main focus is to make money. If their only focus is to make money, the cities and states put their people in a position to where they can't participate in the economy. While chapter 1 and 2 explain what globalism is and what it does to the people of those nations, chapter 8 goes in depth to what is being transferred through globalization. Chapter 8 explains that not only goods are being shared between nations, but nations are also sharing information, customs and a little bit of their religion through globalization. Chapter 8 highlighted that trade isn't the only way to spread information about a nation. Within the past 25-50 years information was shared through media like T.V shows and books. Chapter 8 had the idea that because the world has access to American T.V shows that America was trying to spread its ideologies when that was not the point of it at all. The main reason people had that idea was because people like the shows so much that they changed their own lives to fit what they seen on T.V. This idea was proved wrong by Len Ang. She said that these shows hold up a cultural mirror to the people watching and lets them decide if they need to change anything about their life or living situation. Overall The three chapters explained what globalization is, what information or goods are being transferred between countries, and what globalization is doing economically to the people that are less fortunate.