How much globalizing can you spot?

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How much globalizing can you spot?

• French
• American
• Japanese
• Germans
• Swedes
• Swiss
• Australians

 
 

1. Jeep
2. 7-Eleven
3. Nestle Toll House Morsel
4. Fox TV
5. Michelin Tires
6. Frigidaire Appliances
7. Old Navy Clothing

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Globalization

• Based on your readings from last night, how could
  you define the term globalization?

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Globalization

• Globalization is the growth of interregional and
  worldwide linkages and the changes they are
  bringing about.
• What are 3 types of globalization?
• Economic
• Cultural
• Political

Technology, trade, international business
Flow of cultural goods music, art and literature
International organizations NATO, United
Nations, Red Cross
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Examples of Globalization News
HeadlinesEconomic 1 finger Political3
fingers Cultural2 fingers Unsure 4 fingers

• 1. In Pasadena, California, more than 3000
  students crowd around the visiting Dalai Lama,
  the Tibetan spiritual leader and Buddhist monk,
  to hear him speak on such matters as the
  destructive forces of negative thinking.
• 2. The New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Devil
  Rays make baseball history by opening the
  official 2004 season before 55,000 Japanese fans
  in the Tokyo Dome.
• 3. Producers of the 2003 movie Cold Mountain,
  starring Jude Law and Nicole Kidman, shoot North
  Carolina mountains scenes in Romania. Why
  Romania? Explanations vary from cheaper labor to
  better scenery.
• 4. In France, Hollywood films account for 70
  percent of movie tickets purchased, according to
  BBC News.
• 5. Tim Horton, a Canadian-based chain of
  coffee-and-doughnut shops, buys Bess Eaton, a
  40-store group of similar restaurants in New
  England Tim Horton is actually owned by Wendys,
  a US firm.
• 6.The war in Iraq brings democracy as the
  US-led coalition hands over power to the Iraqi
  interim government.

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Outsourcing

• Outsourcing sending jobs abroad.
• Why might a company do this?
• What are the benefits?
• What are the problems?
• Why is this happening?
• What were the 3 Gaps that may hurt Americas
  future?
• Ambition gap
• Numbers gap
• Education gap
• Do you agree?

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• Interdependence
• Mutual dependence of countries on goods,
  resources, and knowledge from other parts of the
  world
• Can you think of some examples?

• Cultural Diffusion
• The movement of customs or ideas from one place
  to another.
• Can you think of some examples?

What's the difference?
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Export / Import

• In what ways does the United States aid in
  globalization?
• What do we export of our culture?

• What does the United States import from other
  countries?

Based on what we export, how might other
countries view us?
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Why is globalization so much easier today?
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Globalization

• Good?

• Bad?

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