Two Sides Of Globalization

In contemporary society, “globalization” is one of the most common terms on mass media as an issue of great concern for all countries in the world. Virtually, the concept of globalization raises a number of questions and controversial issues. Some experts claim that globalization plays a cardinally important role in creating opportunity for all countries to live in the same roof as Marshall McLuhan called “global village”. However, others assert globalization just exerts a wide range of potentially adverse influences on many countries. To clarify this problem, this essay will endeavour to explore two sides of globalization.

To start with, a question is arising “what is globalization?” In The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization,

In other words, it is the process by which countries develop in terms of economic, cultural, political relation with other countries and start operating on an international scale. Increasingly used since the late 19th century and early 20th century, globalization has created enormous changes in all dimensions of human life including both positive and negative sides.

First of all, Bill Gates’ s saying goes that “This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It 's not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways”. Judging by this statement, globalization is utmost importance to make a new face for the world. To be more specific,

In an article (2007), general secretary of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Angel Gurría contended that “Millions are benefiting from globalization but at the same time there 's a feeling something 's wrong with the process”. There is little denying that the dramatic increase in FDI index (Foreign Direct Investment) and the aggressive spread of market economics bring new challenges for developing countries. In other words, the larger globalization’s scale is, the wider the gap between the poor and rich countries becomes. Specifically, rich nations have a tendency to exploit thoroughly natural resources in developing countries such as Africa and outsource with extremely low cost simultaneously. Consequently, the fact that rich ones become richer and poor ones become poorer is unavoidable. Moreover, according to statistics and report of United Nation (1999), that developed countries, especially America as the dominant role, account for about third quarters the productivity and 97 percent of all worldwide patents while developing and underdeveloped ones just own infinitely minimal part, is also overwhelming evidence of opposite side of