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Dr. Amos M.D. Sirleaf (PH. D.) 0880313111 Professor- Vice President-Blacology
Research and Development Institute, Inc. (USA-Liberia) Professor- Peace Studies,
Cuttington University: amdsirleaf@gmail.com. Blacology.com
amdsirleaf@cuttingtonuniversity.edu.rl
Introduction
Globalization" is a term that came into popular usage in the 1980's to describe (1)
the increased movement of people, (2) knowledge and ideas, (3) and goods and
money across national borders that has led to increased interconnectedness among
the world's populations, (a) economically, (b) politically, (c) socially, (d) safety,
specifically Liberian people, must by now be able to smartly use our traditional
2014 USA).
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the challenges it poses on the role of governments in international affairs and the
perhaps is the most silent characteristics of most developing countries like Africa,
some combination of low gross domestic product (GDP) per capita (an indirect
other Third World Nations, unfortunately, and regrettably, fit this criteria
B. One of the major research questions is why Third World countries are generally
much poorer than countries in Western Europe and North America? There is
also considerable variation among them and between world regions. Between
and among world regions lie Black African people and people of color.
C. The term globalization is thus a theoretical construct that is itself contested and
system of thoughts.
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point, can carve out of the mass of seemingly unrelated concepts and
different flows of products, ideas and information, people, and technology. Critical
phenomena, the systemic structure which organizes phenomena and processes into
a social system, and the relative autonomy of the parts, such that there are both
connections and disjunctions between, say, the economy and culture. Concerned to
relate theory to practice, critical theory also attempts to delineate the positive
between past, present, and future, and the possibility of constructive political
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action and individual and group practice, grounded in positive potentials in the
Though there are many social and cultural manifestations of globalization, here are
media, media network, social network, and electronic mail. On the one
communicate their opinions and perspectives on issues, local and global, that
impact their lives. Political groups from Chiapas to Pakistan have effectively
On the other hand, this expansion of information technology has been highly
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B. NEW SERVICES:
In recent years there has been a significant shift in the transmission and
reporting of world news with the rise of a small number of global news
reflecting the power of a few news agencies to construct and disseminate news.
Thanks to satellite technology, CNN and its few competitors extend their reach
to even the most geographically remote areas of the world. This raises some
articulated? Whose voice(s) are and are not represented? What are the potential
C. Popular culture:
reach a larger audience. For example, "world music" has developed a major
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international audience. Old and new musical traditions that a few years ago
were limited to a small local audience are now playing on the world stage.
easily and inexpensively from the developed countries of the North throughout the
television, movie, and video programs, many media markets in countries of Africa,
Asia, and Latin America are saturated with productions from the U.S., Europe and
a few countries in Asia (especially Japan and India). Local critics of this trend
lament not only the resulting silencing of domestic cultural expression, but also the
understanding and sharing the nature and goals of the Black African people in the
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local resistance. Expansion of private cable and satellite systems has been
culture itself is being redefined for previously local and national cultures have been
forces of resistance to global forces, protecting the traditions, identities, and modes
of life of specific groups and peoples. Culture has been precisely the
particularizing, localizing force that distinguished societies and people from each
other. Culture provided forms of local identities, practices, and modes of everyday
life that could serve as a bulwark against the invasion of ideas, identities, and
forms of life extraneous to the specific local region in question. Indeed, culture is
an especially complex and contested terrain today as global cultures permeate local
ones and new configurations emerge that synthesize both poles, providing
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within a system of power and equality. That economic competition underlies and
makes possible the continually growing abundance of wealth, that without it they
technology, combined with free-market ideology, have given goods, services, and
their goods and take advantages of abundant, cheap labor in the south, politics
often supported by southern elites. They use international institutions and regional
tariffs, privatizing state and labor standards. The result has enlarged profits for
investors but offered pittances to labors, provoking a strong backlash from civil
political doctrines. In the context of politics, one would like to articulate from a
social effect that, if political institutions are inherently constrained in what results
they can produce, political ideologies are not constrained in what they can
promise. To maintain the plausibility of what they promise, however, they must
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first establish and then maintain a particular vision of social processes that will
globalization and technology transfer, although most people tend to think of them
as individual characteristics or systems identity that is built into the very structure
of society and it is a social fact that derives out of analysis of international cultural,
ethnic, and cultural institutions, provides a different frame of analysis from that
changing. Every participant in the economic system has the incentive and the
moral responsibility to plan for the future, to match their skills to the productive
opportunities in the economy and to enhance their skills and focus them on new
the market and responding appropriately, no matter your level of production, from
you cannot stand still. Complacency is failure. As Andy Grove is fond of saying,
address the American competitiveness directly to this subject; I firmly believe that
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one of America's greatest strengths is the adaptability of its people. The American
people can create change, and thrive on it. The historic accomplishments of the
peer. Americans are the people best positioned to prosper in the globalized
economy.
tremendous impact on the economy, polity, society, culture, and everyday life.
African and the Third World nations are not equally viewed within the world
space and time, creating a global cultural village and dramatic penetration of global
forces into every realm of life in every region of the world, with racially culturally,
and ethnically limited penetration in Africa. New technologies in the labor process
displace living labor, make possible more flexible production, and create new labor
markets, with some areas undergoing deindustrialization (i.e. the "rustbelt" of the
transnational (Harvey 1989). The new technologies also create new industries, such
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as the computer and information industry, and allow transnational media and
information to instantaneously traverse the globe (Morley and Robins 1995). This
process has led some to celebrate a new global information superhighway and
others to attack the new wave of media and culture of race, class, and system of
within the international systems of globalization, race, class, and the international
global system, turn one attention to how they work. For several centuries,
areas of the world into the world market-system. World War One and its aftermath
produced a slowing down of this process, however, first, enmeshing much of the
economic and political policy. World War Two once again engulfed much of the
world in an even more destructive and global war, though already during the war
itself events occurred that would shape the post-War world economic order. At the
would help produce a globalized world order. At the end of this meeting, the World
Bank and I.M.F. were founded, two major economic institutions that would be at
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the basis of later arrangements such as GATT and NAFTA. With the end of the
war, world trade exploded with a vengeance. National trade barriers were
economies, and a global consumer and media culture traversed the globe.
The impact of globalization is felt first and foremost in economic life. The
whether integration has helped or hindered the plight of poor people around the
every sector of the economy or whether some sectors should be protected for the
benefit of domestic companies. The following articles have been assembled to shed
light on these and other related issues. Technology is also advancing one
culture and one language. The US has more computers than the rest of the
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access divides educated from illiterate, rich from poor, young from old
and urban from rural. For many countries feeling the deadening and
destroy it.
between individuals and corporations around the world. Greater ease and
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nation-states
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with the affected industries. For people brought into the international economic
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system as a result of globalization, there are large and obvious benefits. Displaced
workers in those industries will need to find new employment, but the fact that a
relative overproduction in their industry caused them to lose their job necessarily
The burden of adjustment falls most heavily upon those most able to bear it, and
even this may be greatly diminished through planning. Savings provides liquidity
during a person's transition to a new field. Savings are the source of funds for
paying ongoing expenses such as food and housing as well as new expenses such
to work in, beginning an education in them, and saving enough money to make the
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References:
See http://www.dni.gov/nic/NIC_GLOBALTREND2020_S1.HTML.
Searched in 2008.
University-USA.
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