Warm Up

1. What can you infer

from the population
pyramid?
2. Would you want to
live in this country?
Why?
3. Which category
(age/gender) has
the most
population?
4. Why do you think
this pyramid is so
out of balance

The best definition of globalization

Princess Diana's death

An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend

crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a
Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on
Scottish whisky, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on
Japanese motorcycles; treated by an American doctor, using
Brazilian medicines.
This is sent to you by an American, using Bill Gates's
technology, and you're probably reading this on your
computer, that uses Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor,
assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant,
transported by Indian lorry-drivers, hijacked by
Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and
trucked to you by Mexicans..... (from the web)

7-11 Beijing

What is
Globalization?
Global industrialism
or globalization is a
process of forging
international political,
economic, religious,
and socio-cultural
interconnections

KFC Kuwait

Facebook Users
Worldwide

Flights Around the World

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13/40-more-maps-that-explain-the-world/

What kinds of things cross international borders?

Trade goods and services.

You can buy a TV from China, car from Japan, clothes from Indonesia or Italy.
You can hire someone from India to write software or answer your telephone

Capital money, investment

You can put your savings into a bank in Zurich.
You can buy stock in SONY, a Japanese company

People immigrants, refugees, tourists

Immigrants come to Calgary from Asia, Africa, S. America, Europe
You can easily travel to Europe, Asia, S. America

Communication
You can easily call or email people around the world

Culture (art, music, cuisine)

You can hear music from Brazil, South Africa, India
Nearby restaurants: Chinese, Thai, Ethiopian, Indian

Ideas

The Silk Road:

trade routes 8,000 km
5000 BC.
between China and Europe

It was Marco Polo and

Christopher Columbuss occupation

Marco Polo 1271-1295

Pros
n increases economic
prosperity and opportunity
n higher degrees of political
and economic freedom in the
form of democracy
n Improved standard of living
reduction in poverty
n Improved gender relations
n Increased life-span

Cons

nenvironmental
damage
nloss of traditional
culture
neconomic
globalization
developments feed
into ethnic, religious,
and factional tensions
ncan spread diseases
of the body and the
mind (terrorism)
nOut siders
influencing politics

Globalization Issues
n Poverty: Enhanced or Diminished?

n Child Labor: Increased or Reduced?

n Women: Harmed of Helped?
n Democracy at Bay?
n Culture Imperiled or Enriched?
n Wages and Labor Standards at Stake?
n Environment in Peril?
n Corporations: Predatory or Beneficial?