Globalization :

Defining Globalization

• The process of integrating the world’s people

economically, socially, politically, and culturally
into a single world system or community.

•The Integration of National Economies

• began 500 years ago, with the voyage of Columbus,
and has had three stages of development.

• the earliest stage, the period from about 1500 to about

1800, saw the conquest of most of the Americas and the
development of a global trade network, which eventually
connected, directly or indirectly, every group of people in
the world.
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• the second stage, which started about 1800 with the
Industrial Revolution, resulted in European military
dominance in world affairs. It was during this period that
the great European Empires in Africa, Asia, and Oceania
were created.
• the third stage, which began to
develop at the end of World War II,
saw the development of global
marketing of products and the
emergence of an integrated global
economy.
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• Great Wall of China • Berlin Wall

• are the movement of people, things, places
and information brought by the growing
“porosity” of global limitation (Ritzer,
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The Development of Global Trade
• the age of European expansion and exploration began
with the discovery of the America by Columbus in 1492.
• during the three centuries that followed, Europe
dramatically changed the world.
• the Spanish and later the Portuguese, English, French,
and Dutch invaded the Americas, conquering or
displacing most of the native people and gaining control
of most of the land and resources.
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• at the same time, these same European people were

establishing a global maritime trade network that soon
brought all of the people of the world into contact with
one another, directly or indirectly.

• this global trade network resulted in the exchange of

technology, food crops, domesticated animals, diseases,
and even people.
• by the late 1700s, the culture of virtually every people in
the world had been to some degree affected by this
exchange.
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• in about 1800 with the Industrial Revolution, gave the

European powers military dominance in the world and
allowed for the division of most of Africa, Asia, and
Oceania in the European Empires.

• by 1900, the European powers began restructuring the

economies of their colonial possessions to meet
European needs.
• the period of Europe’s ever-increasing political and
economic control continued until World War II.
The Emergence of Global Economy
• global economy is the buying and selling of goods and
services in an integrated global market.
• this stage began to develop about 50 years ago, at the
end of World War II.
• major factors involved in the emergence of the global
economy:
1. The collapse of the existing colonial empires
allowed the countries of the world to trade directly
with one another.
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2. The development of free trade, meaning that

goods, commodities, and services could be marketed
across national boundaries without being subject to
duties, tariffs, or other restrictions.

3. The development of new technologies in

transportation and shipping, making it possible to
move goods and people faster and at greatly reduced
cost, and information and communication which
allows people in different parts of the world
communicate with each instantaneously.
Social and Cultural Effects
• globalization and the emergence of the global economy
have directly or indirectly had far reaching effects on the
people of the world.
1. In large part due to the efforts of the
World Health Organization, the population
of the world is growing rapidly.

in the last 50 years, world

population has jumped from 2.5
billion to 6.6 billion.
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2. Migration and
Inequalities in the
global economy.

this has resulted in the great migration world history

as people are moving from rural areas to cities and
from impoverished countries to wealthier countries.

3. Economically powerful multinational corporations have

emerged which are able to operate outside the regulatory
control of any single country.
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4. Because of their domination of the global business and

academic communities and the global media, Western
and American cultural influence is pervasive in the world.

What other effects can you observe?

Globalization in the Philippines
• The country is taking part in the process of globalization
ever since the country signed agreements with World
Trade Organization in 1995.

• Now, globalization is very effective in the Philippines, it

has allowed major changes in the nation like more labor,
and more Filipino and foreign companies has emerged in
the nation in order to help the country’s developing
economy.
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• Globalization can make the Philippines into a better nation

if the Philippine leaders to make their economy more
advance through global trading and allowing more foreign
investors to the help boost the economy.

• And by accomplishing those goals, the Philippines should

be able to reduce the poverty level as well as increase
labor force for job opportunities for those that are in
need for a living.
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• However, since the poverty level is still increasing, most

Filipinos has managed to find work overseas and they
have managed to seek better living than in the
Philippines.

• The most effective factor in the Philippines is education.

The society’s mentality is to be educated and it’s with
education that people in the nation see their opportunity
for a better life in the future.
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Has globalization endangered
other cultures in the world?
Explain and give examples.