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”

• Guest Post: One Reason that the Stock Market is Rising While Unemployment is Soaring

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 166
  By George Washington of Washington’s Blog . Daniel Gross points out that part of the reason that the American stock markets are going up even though unemployment is rising and the real economy suffering is because multinational corporations headquartered in the U.S. are experiencing strong sales abroad: ...
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• Guest Post: One Reason that the Stock Market is Rising While Unemployment is Soaring

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 167
  By George Washington of Washington’s Blog . Daniel Gross points out that part of the reason that the American stock markets are going up even though unemployment is rising and the real economy suffering is because multinational corporations headquartered in the U.S. are experiencing strong sales abroad: ...
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• Time to Open Up to Cuba

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 531
  A couple of years ago, I was invited to Cuba to speak at an International Wetlands Symposium. I applied for permission to attend from our federal government. After jumping through many hoops, I was on my way. I was eager to explore this mysterious place that most U.S. citizens are not allowed to visit. What I ...
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• The Incredibly Scary and Informative Website Du Jour

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 134
  Via Rue 89 : banksecrets via kwout For instance, in the screenshot above, I selected Citibank and saw that they loaned over $10 million to a companies manufacturing cluster bombs. So, if you want to know more about controversial investments that your bank might be making, just head on over there and start ...
  13 hours ago

• ICANN’s non-Latin domain approval

  
  Social Justice Librarian — Authority: 106
  I’ve been wanting to say something about the ICANN non-Latin script domain approval move for a bit now, but found myself unsure of what to say. “Yay,” seemed trite, and “It’s about time,” is just more of my usual snark. I think it’s a no-brainer for people with any sence of global justice issues to ...
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• FINANCIAL STABILTY BOARD: NOVEMBER 2009

  
  Cambridge Forecast Group Blog — Authority: 133
  Financial Stability Board Releases Reports Submitted to the G20 FSB E-Mail Alert fsb@bis.org Sun 11/08/09 FSB e-mail alert on 08.11.2009 06:02 (GMT) 1 new document(s) found since 07.11.2009. 1. Press Release: FSB Releases Reports ...
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• OBAMA’S GODFATHER: CHAPTER 4: THE SCORPION AND THE FROG

  
  Pumas Unleashed — Authority: 415
  CHAPTER 4: THE SCORPION AND THE FROG “Creative Destruction” is an economic theory which posits that companies who revolutionized and dominated industries lose their dominance over time as new players enter the market and introduce better products, more efficient methods and/or lower costs. ...
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• Mizuno Classic Sunday: Song Holds Off Ochoa

  
  Mostly Harmless — Authority: 501
  Golf fans got neither the hoped-for Tiger vs. Phil showdown at the WGC-HSBC Champions nor Ji-Yai Shin vs. Ai Miyazato at the Mizuno Classic , but what they got instead was pretty darn exciting. 63s by Ernie Els and Rory McIlroy were not enough to chase down Phil Mickelson in Shanghai, while a bogey-free 64 from ...
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• I know when I am outclassed

  
  Brian's Meandering Mind — Authority: 113
  Therefore, three links, all to the same article at different sites:The original comment at HaloScanThe First Repost that I can find at "Smallest Minority"The post at Western Rifle Shooters where I read itAnd now I, in turn, will repost it here on the off chance that it becomes unavailable at any of the three links ...
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• Border Crossings

  
  Bookyards — Authority: 133
  From : The Atlantic Photo In our age of globalization, when immigration and the Internet and multinational conglomerates have made cultural transmission across borders easier than ever, does the idea of a national literature still have meaning? Where, in a civilization divided between cultural ...
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• Comparative advantage and increasing returns in global trade

  
  Urbanomics — Authority: 130
  Paul Krugman has a working draft that argues and models how increasing returns, in the form of localized external economies, plays a major role in explaining trade patterns even in a world of comparative advantage. He traces the history of international trade to three parts - pre-War (export of different goods - ...
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• Hot air

  
  Governance Focus — Authority: 148
  The change in greenhouse-gas emissions in industrialised countries THE volume of greenhouse gases emitted by 40 industrialised countries that report under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change increased by 1% in 2007 and by 3% from 2000 to 2007. But measured from 1990, the base year for Kytoto ...
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• The Advantage and Disadvantage of Zine

  
  The Groundswell Blog — Authority: 408
  (Anne Elizabeth Moore is an author, editor, artist, teacher, and Groundswell guest blogger. She divides her time between Chicago and Cambodia, where she teaches young women the art of self-publishing.)Perhaps by accident, Groundswell has invited someone who thinks obsessively about text and vocabulary and dialogue and ...
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• Mizuno Classic Saturday: Now Thats a Moving Day!

  
  Mostly Harmless — Authority: 501
  The #1 and #2 players on the LPGA money list matched cards for the 2nd-straight round at the Mizuno Classic , but 67s by Ji-Yai Shin and Ai Miyazato were only good enough to move them into a tie for 5th at -8 with Inbee Park (bogey-free 66), Song-Hee Kim (6-birdie 67), Momoko Ueda (bogey-free 68), ...
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• South Koreans Struggle With Race from the NYTimes

  
  Where The Hell Am I? — Authority: 113
  This is a really good article and I dont want to comment on it now. Read it. Comment. Ill chime in later. Here is a bit of the article and click over for the full article. South Koreans Struggle With Race SEOUL — On the evening of July 10, Bonogit Hussain, a 29-year-old Indian man, and Hahn Ji-seon, a female ...
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• Hell No! We Won’t Send Our Tax Dollars to China

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 763
  Leo Gerard (photo: Frank Snyder for AFL-CIO via Flickr) Taking candy from a baby: A consortium of Chinese and American companies goes to Washington and announces plans to build a $1.5 billion windmill farm in West Texas using $450 million in U.S. Stimulus funds, which will create 2,330 jobs — 2,000 of them in ...
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• The globalization of the macabre

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 533
  Greetings from tomorrow.  In light of the Fort Hood shootings , I thought I would share with you a sampling of national headlines from my morning copy of the  Asahi Shimbun : " 2 more boyfriends of Tottori fraud suspect turned up dead " "Gangster kills self after shooting three" "Death sentences upheld ...
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• Loving Americas Basket Case

  
  An American Lion — Authority: 479
  Detroit, you’re the hot mess girlfriend who stole my car and used it to transport a convicted felon across state lines with a minor and a backpack full of crystal meth in the back seat. Thank you for the good times. Now, stop pretending you can do anything about the demise of your city. It’s over. It’s ...
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• BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS BIS REVIEW NO. 136: RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS

  
  Cambridge Forecast Group Blog — Authority: 133
  BIS Review Bank for International Settlements BIS Review No 136 available Press, Service ( press@bis.org ) Publications, Service ( Publications@bis.org ) Fri 11/06/09 Please fi nd BIS Review No 136 attached as an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) ...
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