My thoughts on the first reading

     The first reading, in my opinion, offered a solid introduction to the meaning and inner workings to globalization and allowed me to begin to understand how it works. I liked how in the beginning it did solely focus on the economics of globalization and showed that it can relate to many other things like ideas and cultures. That being said, the sharp turn into neoliberalism shows just how dominated globalism is dominated by the economic benefits it creates. I don’t think this was always the case, I believe this only arose during the recent century, as corporations arose, went global, and merged to create mega corporations. This led directly to these corporations' attempts to bid for power around the world and gain more influence on people, which led to them taking over events like the world cup to advertise their products and to funding different projects to increase their public image. This whole system led to the fall of the movement of ideas in that sense of globalization, as corporations began to stop spreading ideas because they wanted to spread their views and culture but they instead started doing everything because of money. Now I see that this is only one part of globalization, as things like phones and the internet can still allow the spread of ideas and cultures without money being an incentive. But thinking about it, globalization seems to be dominated by the effect it has on economies.