Globalization

                    Globalization is a really widespread topic. There are millions of definitions, opinions, organizations and perspectives because it concerns the whole world . The international economic system is being changed , cultures are being spread and a homogeneous world is being created by globalization . All these waves of changes concern the whole world and cause a huge controversial .When I first read about it , that put me in a dilemma because it  influences everything around us .But I believe that we get benefits from it . While globalization is thought of by many as having the potential to make societies richer through trade and to bring knowledge and information to people around the world, there are many others who perceive globalization as contributing to the exploitation of the poor by the rich, and as a threat to traditional cultures as the process of modernization changes societies.  There are heated debates about globalization and its positive and negative effects.

                   First of all, it has been claimed that globalization provides the increasing of productivity and life standard of societies. To begin with productivity is indeed increased as it can be seen that the population of the world is rising rapidly even uncontrollable and more people means that there is a need of more product too. Thus Globalization responds the needs of 7 billion people. Moreover the standards of life is a lot better than 50 years ago as they are more machines and systems invented in developed countries supporting all world. However there is another side of the facts. Globalization causes the poor citizens having more requirements.In the past, Greek culture spread across Africa, Europe and Asia through Alexander the Great. This is the reason there are cities named for Alexander in Africa, Egypt and Turkey. The Silk Road was a trade route between China and the Mediterranean Sea area and it allowed the exchange of not only goods, but culture and knowledge. All that causes the overdeveloped world that we are living in .

                  The problem is that globalization is capitalistic and so are negative effects as well. First there are all this big transnational concerns that gain more and more influence. The objective, of course, is to raise the profit of the company. The price that has to be paid to reach by the exploitation of the environment   and of poor countries. The most important disadvantage of globalization is the increasing number of the poor people . After the industrial revolution  ,  some countries became a power in industry. However production decreased and so unemployment was raised in the other countries.. As stated at Wikipedia, many workers found themselves suddenly unemployed , they could no longer compete with machines which only required limited work to produce more product than a single worker.
Another major damage of globalization is that some cultures are getting lost. The cultures of the countries that have more economic power are more dominant than others .Although commentator Andrew Lam says that Globalization s not Americanization and America itself starts to change, there are many American thoughts and customs spreading around the world. Because, wealthy countries produce many things that can affect cultures, for example, clothes, movies and technology products. . Therefore, globalization damages small cultures which are in risk of being extinct.

                Over all, I believe that everything on this world has pros and cons 
And I’m sure that if there was no globalization, we wouldn’t live this overdeveloped world . But we still have to fight the bad side of globalization and try to rescue our identities by saving our traditions and old customs. At the same time we get benefits from the huge wave of communications, information and thoughts  .