Globalization: Is it a bad thing?

[Perseus]

As the title states, do you think it is a bad thing. This is a direct response to this post. (http://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1035583&postcount=15)

I find globalization to be crucial for an every growing and expanding human race. It makes our lives easier. We need something, we ask since we are connected. If it weren't globalization, we wouldn't be where we are today.

[huginnmuninn]

globalization makes the world run as it does if we didnt have glabalization the world would be completely different and probably for the worse

[Amnesiac]

Globalization is a mixed blessing. It connects millions of people and presents new opportunities for wealth, diversity and economic development. However, it can result in some pretty bad adverse effects: it can destroy a nation's cultural identity (globalization is kind of like leveling and paving a field into a parking lot) and it isn't that great for the environment, since it could be argued that it encourages greedy corporations to introduce themselves into unregulated economies and wreak all the havoc they want for profit.

[Peace God]

The recent(last few decades) push for globalization in America has not been very democratic. I'm all for cultural awareness and more international relations, but on the economic side of things right now globalization is bad for the US and other countries. Until people can find a way to make it work which includes more U.S. jobs, less exploitation of foreign resources and workers and less corporate involvement I do not think that is all that helpful.

[Jess]

Globalization is a mixed blessing. It connects millions of people and presents new opportunities for wealth, diversity and economic development. However, it can result in some pretty bad adverse effects: it can destroy a nation's cultural identity (globalization is kind of like leveling and paving a field into a parking lot) and it isn't that great for the environment, since it could be argued that it encourages greedy corporations to introduce themselves into unregulated economies and wreak all the havoc they want for profit.

don't have much time to express my opinion....pretty much this....

[ZodiacKiller]

I dislike globalization because it requires technological and industrial societies, which must have overgrown populations, or extremely industrialized trade and comunication, or both- as in our society.

I am an environmentalist; industustrial/technological societies=evil imo.

[Continuum]

It shows how one nation's people can influence the whole world with products from beyond. However, one dark side to this is that it also intervenes in culture, and hereby influencing it whenever you buy something out of the store. It makes your country's culture look like derp to a more dominant culture. So much for the great american empire.

http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/08/fat_kid.jpg

Face it, greedy global merchants of the future care less for its consumers when it comes to wealth.

[Magus]

I find globalization to be crucial for an every growing and expanding human race. It makes our lives easier. We need something, we ask since we are connected. If it weren't globalization, we wouldn't be where we are today.
What is Globalisation? And, how did it change our world into what it is today?

Oh, don't give me that Google link stuff, please. Just summarise it. Thank you.

[Perseus]

What is Globalisation? And, how did it change our world into what it is today?

Oh, don't give me that Google link stuff, please. Just summarise it. Thank you.

Everybody is connected. This (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization) will explain it better than I can.