“ON GLOBALIZATION”

ACTIVITY 1

A.

1. Explain the following concepts of globalization.

a) Globalization is internationalization.
-refers to the promotion of global peace and well-being through the development and application of
international structures, primarily but not solely of an intergovernmental kind.

b) Globalization is liberalization
-trade liberalization is the reverse process of protectionism. After previous protectionist decisions,
trade liberalization occurs when governments decide to move back toward free trade. The outcome of
these liberalizing and integrating processes is known as globalization.

c) Globalization is used as universalization

-Globalization as universalization uses the idea of planetary synthesis to explain the globalizing trends
occurring today. This is the spreading of various experiences and objects to people at all corners of the
earth. Universalization emphasizes the homogenization of the world’s practices on every front, whether
political, legal, cultural, or economic.

2. Explain globalization as imperialism of McDonalds, Hollywood and CNN.

--The mass media, publicity, advertisement and secular entertainers and intelectuals play a major role
today. In the contemporary world, Hollywood, CNN and Disneyland are more influential than the Vatican,
the Bible or the public relations rhetoric of political figures (Petras, 1994). The U.S. flavor of globalization
stems from the culture of possessive individualism and consumerism that has its most radical embodiment
in American Society.
-McDonald’s media has been a driving force of this cultural imperialism. Media imperialism is a theory
based upon an over-concentration of mass media from larger nations as a significant variable in negatively
affecting smaller nations, in which the national identity of smaller nations is lessened or lost due to media
homogeneity inherent in mass media from the larger countries.
-Large American corporations, like McDonalds, are aware of their impact on changing social conditions of
other countries and cultures, but yet still insist that these changes are only improving the culture.
Example/situations
-A good example is the 1996 World Bank study, El Salvador: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization. There,
it is announced that the main goal for El Salvador’s policymakers is to enhance “global competitiveness”
by rapidly aiming for two main goals: “(i) promote domestic and foreign investment and incorporate the
country into the global production chain by lowering the costs of operating in the country; and (ii) reduce
the size of the State through accelerated privatization, while strengthening the public sector’s role as
facilitator of private sector development” (World Bank 1996, 1).
B.
a)Read the topic: What is Globalization.
1. What is the title of the article?
- What is Globalization ?

2. Who wrote the article?

- The Levin Institute- The State University of New York Authorship, Copyright, and Citation Notice.

3. What is the general idea of the article? Explain comprehensively.

-the general main idea of the article is about the effects of this globalization on the environment,on
culture,on political systems, on economic development and on human physical well-being in societes
around the world to understand how globalization works and how the policy choices facing them and their
societies.

4.
- What is Globalization?
We all know that globalization exist anywhere and anytime. This article shows about people and
corporations that have been buying from and selling to each other in lands at great distances. To invest
in enterprises that are similar to those prevailing outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
But the policy and technological developments of the past few decades increases in cross-border trade,
investment and migration that many observer believe the world has entered a new phase in its
economic development.
In the years since the Second War, many governments have adopted free-market economic
systems,increasing heir own productive potential and creating new opportunities
forinternational trade and investment.
Technology has been the other principal driver of globalization, because of the advances in information
technology that given all sorts of individual economic actors,consumers,investors,businesses
valuable new tools for identifying and pursuing economic opportunities.

Questions:
1. Enumerate atleast 3 most recent song you have liked.
*Remember me this Way
I'll make a wish for you
And hope it will come true
That life would just be kind
To such a gentle mind
If you lose your way
Think back on yesterday
Remember me this way
Remember me this way
 * I’ll be Fine
geunyang gadeon gillo jinaga juseyo
gwaenchanhayo dwitmoseup
naegen iksukhaeyo
meolli gabeorin dwitmoseup
boneun yeogin nae jariin georyo
* No one else comes close
No one else comes close to you
No one makes me feel the way you do
You're so special girl to me
And you'll always be eternally
Every time I hold you near
You always say the words I love to hear
Girl with just a touch, you can do so much
No one else comes close
Whoa, oh girl, oh

2. Where did they originate?

Identify the Nationality of the writer/artist for each music.
●"Remember Me This Way", a song by Jordan Hill, featured in the 1995 film Casper.
Jordan Hill (born Whitney Jordan Hill) is an American singer/songwriter.
● ‘I’ll be fine is featured in a Korean Odyssey, Tv series “Hwayugi”.
Suran, is a popular South Korean R&B singer, record producer, and songwriter.
● No one else comes close, is a song by American R&B singer Joe. I discover this song when I am
reading a wattpad story ‘he’s into her’..

3. What gadgets or devices you usually use to listen music?

- I often use my cellphone in listening to music.

4. Where were the gadgets or devices made?

- it was made in Vietnam.
- Samsung Electronics in Vietnam has more than 100,000 employees working across its
manufacturing facilities in the Yen Phong Industrial Zone in Bac Ninh Province (Samsung Electronics
Vietnam; SEV) and Pho Yen District in Thai Nguyen Province (Samsung Electronics Vietnam – Thai
Nguyen; SEVT).
HOW GLOBALIZATION IS YOUR HOME?

ITEMS/PRODUCTS BRAND NAME COUNTRY OF ORIGIN

1.Shoes(pink) Sanfu Made in China
2. Rice cooker Wansa Kuwait City
3. Heater Bravo Kuwait City
4. Bag Under armor Storm Made in China
5. Shoes (blue w/ pink) CND Made in China

HOW HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED GLOBALIZATION IN YOUR HOME?

For me my home is a globalization because we are using some gadgets, appliances/things in our
home that are from the other countries like footwears,bags,clothes,cellphones,laptops ..
 Republic of the Philippines
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
SORSOGON STATE COLLEGE
Sorsogon City

ACTIVITY 1
IN
THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

Submitted by:
Althea Kae G. Tangco
BSED FILIPINO- 1A