Globalization is not a process that unfolded in the last hundred or two hundred years.It was launched at a time when the ancient world met for the first time representatives of different cultures.Movies of Alexander the Great, the expansion of Rome - all accompanied by the interpenetration of civilizations and cultural unification.Another thing is that the effects of globalization have become quite obvious visible only in the last century.In fact, the process itself turned into a new time on the European calendar.
prerequisite to increasing globalization began voyages of discovery, the development of capitalism in the Old World as the basis of commodity-money relations, stimulating, respectively, trade, travel, and the strengthening of relations in different regions of the planet, and most importantly - the scientific and technological revolution has made it possible and will greatly facilitate the interpenetration of different cultures.Not surprisingly, with the increasingly rapid development of technical capabilities brighter began to show the effects of globalization.Ships trading companies were replaced by trains, trains, planes gave way to increasingly facilitates travel around the globe.In addition to purely transport capabilities, there were other ways of communication between representatives of different regions of the planet: printing, press, radio, television, the Internet, finally, as the apogee of modern processes of centralization of society, the economic system and political power as well as the unification of culture.
Globalization perhaps primarily determines the existence of the world as we know it today - with its international division of labor, mass migration, ethnic communities in foreign countries and their successful / unsuccessful assimilation, standardization of political systems and legislation andetc.The European Union, international sports, tourist resorts - they are also the consequences of globalization.The world is becoming more and more interconnected.However, the researchers note, both positive and negative features of this evolution.
positive consequences of globalization
Today, it is accepted more than blame (and the case), but note the first positive moments.Here are the three positive effects of globalization:
- exchange of best practices and scientific achievements between different cultures;
- stimulate the development of the world economy and the economy;
- as a result of the two preceding paragraphs - the rise in average living standards.
negative consequences of globalization
- Its result is the formation of uniform standards of consumption that is imposed on a certain lifestyle.In the realities of our world it means a literal Americanization.
- With the emergence of transnational corporations there are more barriers to domestic production of the advanced countries of the cohort.
- economic interests of the most developed countries and companies dictate their terms, ignoring the national and cultural characteristics of different countries.
- More and more lost civilization specific features of different regions of the planet and its peoples.
