Nelson Mandela's Negative Impact Of Globalization

Globalization can be interpreted in many different ways. “Google’s” definition of globalization is “the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale”. Widespread globalization had begun as early as 1492, when Christopher Columbus “found” America, which started the trading of ideas and goods on a global scale. Globalization today allows us to communicate our ideas with people around the world in seconds while also granting us to travel to various places within a matter of hours. Globalization allows for advancements but also drawbacks in today 's society. These advancements and drawbacks are present in these three sources.

This political cartoon relates to globalization

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, commonly known as Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years because he took a stand for what he believed in; equality. After coming out of prison he ran for president and was voted into office as the first black president in South Africa. During Mandela’s 5 years of presidency, he ended the apartheid, he achieved reconciliation, and he won a nobel peace prize. Mandela was, and still is an icon to almost every human rights activist. In this quote, Mandela talks about his meaning of globalization and what globalization is doing to the poor compared to the rich. Mandela 's interpretation of globalization is that the rich and powerful use the poor and weak for their own benefit and gain. This is shown in the lines 2-5, “the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker”. In these lines we can see that Nelson Mandela is opposed to globalization and feels that it is being used to take advantage of the people who are desperate. To summarize, Nelson Mandela believed that globalization allows the rich and powerful to exploit the poor and weak and this viewpoint is illustrated through his

This is because this graph exhibits the number of people that are in poverty. As shown, the graph took a big hit downward from 1970 to around the 1980s. During this time, several countries and companies began to outsource because it was cheaper than paying domestic workers. People in third world countries needed jobs and they were willing to do anything for a very cheap price, therefore, large companies like Nike, Joe Fresh, and Adidas started to outsource to third world countries. This graph shows that globalization has greatly influenced the world in a positive way, because it has created many jobs around the world, thus, has gradually decreased the poverty rate. However, this graph contradicts the two other sources: cartoon and quote. The cartoon and quote both show the adverse side of globalization, however, this graph negates this point of view. The data shown on this graph brings light upon the positive side of globalization, and unlike others, it is used to represent the pro-globalization