How do you view "Globalization"?

Answer 1

There is a general confusion between
* globalization itself, which is a process by which
people on this planet are more and more interrelated,
* and market globalization that is only one of the
phenomena that intervene in this process.

Market globalization has its benefits and its costs
(more benefits than cost in my opinion: better make
trade than war). But it is largely insufficient to serve
the World needs and to solve the world-wide issues.

What is needed is more globalization in other fields
than trade (cultural, scientific, artistic...) and above all
in the political field, towards more world unity and
democracy.

Present institutions, like the UN for example, have to
progress from the "inter-national" statute, which still
gives primacy to nations, which are divisive players,
to a world governance statute, some world federation
or confederation, in which those bodies would directly
represent the world citizens.
What we need is "democratic globalization".

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Democratic_globalization/
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Answer 2

I think it will become a huge mess of tariffs, embargoes and global warming before we gradually go back to localized economies.

With regard to the whole UAW negotiations--aren't foreign auto companies paying for health insurance too? Not directly, but through taxes. I don't understand GM's argument.

Answer 3

It's both good and bad:
It's a good thing in some respects, because it means we can enjoy music, food, et. al. from all over the world, and we can learn to better respect our differences.
It's bad because it often involves westerners getting rich by exploiting people in third-world countries, and because it means that when a crisis happens in the US or China, it effects everyone else.

Answer 4

Standardization!

Answer 5

at this side of the world, it means large-scale slaughter of local economies, hitting the most marginalized and vulnerable sectors of the society... widening the gap between the rich and the poor...

so where do we go from here?

Answer 6

I am against it. It would destroy American sovereignty. It would not raise the standards of other nations but instead lower the standards of American freedoms and individual rights. We don't need that.

Answer 7

You know it's going to happen.
I know it's going to happen.

The only question is whose ideology is going to be the dominant one.

Thank you, I've chosen sides.

Answer 8

A corrupted network. As it always has been.

Answer 9

Too late we already have a globe -- I think it has got more good point than bad.. But, still it is our globe...

Answer 10

With trepidation.