Some people think that globalization can help to prevent war, others think that it can only help the rich get richer while the people who are middle class and lower become poorer.
We need to become more interconnected, kind of like how Europe has the Euro throughout Europe to prevent currency exchange.
We need to become more interconnected, kind of like how Europe has the Euro throughout Europe to prevent currency exchange.
Here is a little "crash course" on globalization.
This cartoon is a good representation of what's going on rights now. On one side you see that the country has made the "Largest stack of pancakes" while the other side is "Starving". This shows that we live a privileged life, we throw away food we don't eat, while on the other side of the world people are starving. It's been shown that the U.S alone could end world hunger but they don't, why? Simple the hungry people will work for food which allows the U.S to pillage the country of it's resources.
Did you know that Canadians are paying Cuban soldiers to perform systematic rape of women and little girls no older then eight? We buy resources from Cuba which the mine by forcing the fathers and sons to work in the mines or have their families raped. The soldiers will force the fathers and brothers to rape their mothers and sisters. The worst part is that we pay for it by buying anything that contains copper, chromium, nickle, and cobalt. In other words our cell phones, lap tops, computers, I pods etc... How does that make you feel?
Did you know that Canadians are paying Cuban soldiers to perform systematic rape of women and little girls no older then eight? We buy resources from Cuba which the mine by forcing the fathers and sons to work in the mines or have their families raped. The soldiers will force the fathers and brothers to rape their mothers and sisters. The worst part is that we pay for it by buying anything that contains copper, chromium, nickle, and cobalt. In other words our cell phones, lap tops, computers, I pods etc... How does that make you feel?
This cartoon is showing that everything we buy from any manufacturer is basically made in China. It's can also be interpreted as the manufacturer hiding behind the "wall" of products made in China. The reason everything is made in china is because China's laws that have been reduced to allow more factories for production, increasing the countries wealth while decreasing the populations wealth. It's pretty much saying that the Great wall of China is made up of cheap products made for the U.S.
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
- Grace Abbott
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
- Rose Schneiderman
- Grace Abbott
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
- Rose Schneiderman
The earth outweights the corporation
This picture represents how the world is all interconnected, relying on each other in order to make a whole.
This diagram shows how each country depends on a lower economically developed country for cheap labor producing cheaply made products.
The graph shows the developmentally rich countries use of the internet. European countries are lower on the scale while Asian countries are higher. You would think this would allow for more communication between the countries.