Globalization

Globalization is a term used to describe a global society of people connected by commerce, trade, diplomacy and technology. The internet has enabled virtually anyone, anywhere in the world the means of accessing information and therefore our world has, figuratively become smaller.

On an economic level, the conception of globalization influences international currencies and exchange rates in support of global rather than local economies. One of the clearest manifestations of economic globalization takes place in terms of transnational corporation.

Globalization also pertains to the increased need for cultural awareness and sensitivity, as our accessibility to various cultural practices and languages is facilitated by international travel, the internet and currency exchange.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Globalization”

• LPGA Q-School Preview/Predictions

  
  Mostly Harmless — Authority: 520
  Futures Tour Q-School medalist Tiffany Joh provides the theme song for this years LPGA Q-School . As usual, the field will be competing on LPGA Internationals Champions and Legends courses. And as usual Ill be arguing that players have to go in with a mindset to go low rather than play it safe. Even without the ...
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• Rebecca Solnit : Reflections on Fanaticism

  
  The Rag Blog — Authority: 559
  John Brown depicted in detail from a mural by John Steuart Curray titled "Tragic Prelude," in the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka.Todays fanatic, tomorrows saintIts popular to think that the world gets changed by nice people, but the lives of activists past and present tell us otherwiseBy Rebecca Solnit / November ...
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• In Japan, Busy Days Ahead

  
  NDN blogs — Authority: 129
  Have landed in Japan on my Tokyo Foundation sponsored trip, and already held an informative dinner with several professors of American politics here, led by my host and good friend, Dr. Fumiaki Kubo.  It certainly is an interesting time to be here, home of the worlds second largest economy, as a political ...
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• Blood Gold at Wal-Mart; Five Million Dead in the Congo

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 599
  One of the most interesting things I found out about in this 60 Minutes story is that Wal-Mart is the largest gold retailer in the United States. Here at Disinfo, we distributed Robert Greenwald’s Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price , and here’s another troubling consequence to add to this idea, that low ...
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• BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS BIS REVIEW NO. 152: ISLAMIC FINANCE AND FINANCIAL STABILITY

  
  Cambridge Forecast Group Blog — Authority: 133
  BIS Review Bank for International Settlements BIS Review No 152 available Press, Service ( press@bis.org ) Publications, Service ( Publications@bis.org ) Mon 11/30/09 Please fi nd BIS Review No 152 attached as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) file. ...
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• Philip Jenkins: BRICs of faith

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 545
  When the U.S. government imagines the global future, the term BRIC features prominently. The concept was created in 2001 when researchers at Goldman Sachs identified four critical emerging powers—Brazil, Russia, India and China. By 2050, claimed these experts, the BRIC powers would be challenging the U.S. for ...
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• Dubai and Islamic finance

  
  James Pethokoukis — Authority: 558
  Some great stuff from the great John Carney : The market has recovered from the initial panic over a possible default on debt issued by Dubai World, and many are assuming that the United Arab Emirates will stand behind the bonds. But under Islamic financing rules, creditors may be required to take a haircut. ...
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• Remember the Battle of Seattle!

  
  The Progressive Economics Forum — Authority: 466
  Ten years ago I was in Seattle for the now famous showdown between activists and the World Trade Organization. Those were good times: we stayed downtown at the youth hostel (since converted to high end condos), ate in and around Pike Place Market, and attended an excellent two-day teach-in put on by the International ...
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• Building Blocks Towards an Asia-Pacific Union

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 490
  NAU Resistance | Nov 30, 2009 By Dana Gabriel Although some may have viewed President Barack Obama’s recent Asian trip as uneventful and perhaps unsuccessful, he appears to have recommitted to the principles of globalization as the answer to the world’s economic woes. Obama declared his intentions for the U.S. ...
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• Which Images Represent India?

  
  Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture — Authority: 635
  By Guest Contributor Gwen, originally published at Sociological Images On her blog , Deepa D. posted about what she calls the “Slumdog Shooting technique,” using this video from Greenpeace about climate change: Deepa says, Ishan Tankha, photographer…sitting in casually imperial isolation on one of the ...
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• Dubai Government Thumbs Its Nose at Creditors

  
  LILA RAJIVA: The Mind-Body Politic — Authority: 139
  After tentatively implying that there would be a back-stop to Dubai World´s debt problems, the Dubai Government on Monday disowned any legal obligation to Dubai World and told creditors that they needed to take responsibility for their loans.“Creditors need to take part of the responsibility for their decision to ...
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• Pollution, Not Global Warming, Is Biggest Environmental Threat

  
  LILA RAJIVA: The Mind-Body Politic — Authority: 139
  Mark Sircus. from Globalresearch, via Lew Rockwell:“Meanwhile despite the international financial crisis pollution is still increasing as we continue to blanket the planet with mercury [...]
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• On November 30

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 505
  On this day in ... ... 1999 (10 years ago today) , what had been scattered anti-globalization demonstrations the day before, of a ministerial meeting of the World Tr ade Organization in Seattle, turned into street protests that, according to a website set up by the University of Washington libraries, "forced the ...
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• Free Organ Trade and the Commodification of the Body

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 433
  Organ trade cartoon by Dario Castillejos ( source ) The case for allowing free organ trade seems a no-brainer. Many countries, including the U.S., now forbid the sale and purchase of most organs, and, as a consequence, sick people die because of organ shortages, and poor people stay poor because they can’t ...
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• The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  By Walden Bello, ZNet , Nov 29, 2009 Source: YES! Magazine Walden Bello’s ZSpace Page WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action. It is ...
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• The Meaning of Seattle: Truth Only Becomes True Through Action

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  By Walden Bello, ZNet , Nov 29, 2009 Source: YES! Magazine Walden Bello’s ZSpace Page WTO+10: Before 1999, the momentum of globalization seemed to sweep everything in front of it, including the truth. But in Seattle, ordinary women and men made truth real with collective action. It is now ...
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• Higher education as an urban/national/global services industry

  
  Changing Higher Education — Authority: 100
  I strongly believe that any post in a higher-ed blog that prominently displays a picture of a bottle of good New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc has a high probability of being worth reading. A recent post in GlobalHigherEducation adds considerable support to that theory.   Kris Olds and  Susan Robertson , the co-editors ...
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• ‘Hot’ tech markets leave Chinese EEs cold (EETimes)

  
  NanoTechBIZZ.com — Authority: 154
  The globalization of engineering has made some geography-specific trends more difficult to spot. Engineering - Globalization - Business - Social Sciences - Education (read the story…) Related items Russia To Turn Inside Out for Nanotechnologies (Pravda) President calls on major companies for innovations ...
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• JLPGA Q-School Preview/Predictions

  
  Mostly Harmless — Authority: 520
  The Final Qualifying Tournament for JLPGA Q-School begins tomorrow in Shizuoka prefecture. You can track the history of the 1st 3 stages and follow the final stages results on the JLPGA web site , or you can review my very cursory summaries of the 2nd and 3rd stages and check back here over the next few days ...
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• India Fears Effects of Dubai Meltdown

  
  LILA RAJIVA: The Mind-Body Politic — Authority: 139
  After earlier assurances that the Dubai meltdown wouldn´t impact the Indian market much, top officials now admit in published reports that the Indian labor market could be affected.“Annual remittances to India from UAE is about 2 billion US dollars, out of the $52 billion sent by Indian expats from across the ...
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