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    Globalization Webquest

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    The document introduces the concept of globalization as the increased movement of people, knowledge, ideas, goods, and money across national borders, leading to greater interconnectedness worldwide economically, politically, socially, and culturally. While globalization is often viewed through an economic lens, it also has significant social and political implications. There are debates around both the potential benefits of globalization, such as increased trade and spread of knowledge, and perceived drawbacks, like threats to local cultures and exploitation of poor countries. The activities that follow include analyzing political cartoons about different aspects of globalization and stating opinions on statements regarding its impacts.

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    The document introduces the concept of globalization as the increased movement of people, knowledge, ideas, goods, and money across national borders, leading to greater interconnectedness worldwide economically, politically, socially, and culturally. While globalization is often viewed through an economic lens, it also has significant social and political implications. There are debates around both the potential benefits of globalization, such as increased trade and spread of knowledge, and perceived drawbacks, like threats to local cultures and exploitation of poor countries. The activities that follow include analyzing political cartoons about different aspects of globalization and stating opinions on statements regarding its impacts.

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    The document introduces the concept of globalization as the increased movement of people, knowledge, ideas, goods, and money across national borders, leading to greater interconnectedness worldwide economically, politically, socially, and culturally. While globalization is often viewed through an economic lens, it also has significant social and political implications. There are debates around both the potential benefits of globalization, such as increased trade and spread of knowledge, and perceived drawbacks, like threats to local cultures and exploitation of poor countries. The activities that follow include analyzing political cartoons about different aspects of globalization and stating opinions on statements regarding its impacts.

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    Globalization Webquest

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    Rafael Araque
    The document introduces the concept of globalization as the increased movement of people, knowledge, ideas, goods, and money across national borders, leading to greater interconnectedness worldwide economically, politically, socially, and culturally. While globalization is often viewed through an economic lens, it also has significant social and political implications. There are debates around both the potential benefits of globalization, such as increased trade and spread of knowledge, and perceived drawbacks, like threats to local cultures and exploitation of poor countries. The activities that follow include analyzing political cartoons about different aspects of globalization and stating opinions on statements regarding its impacts.

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    GLOBALIZATION WEBQUEST

    INTRODUCTION

    In a globalized world, everything seems to be connected. "Globalization" is a term


    that came into popular usage in the 1980's to describe the increased movement of
    people, knowledge and ideas, and goods and money across national borders that has
    led to increased interconnectedness among the world's populations, economically,
    politically, socially and culturally. Although globalization is often thought of in
    economic terms (i.e., "the global marketplace"), this process has many social and
    political implications as well. Many in local communities associate globalization with
    modernization (i.e., the transformation of "traditional" societies into "Western"
    industrialized ones). At the global level, globalization is thought of in terms of the
    challenges it poses to the role of governments in international affairs and the global
    economy.

    There are heated debates about globalization and its positive and negative effects.
    While globalization is thought of by many as having the potential to make societies
    richer through trade and to bring knowledge and information to people around the
    world, there are many others who perceive globalization as contributing to the
    exploitation of the poor by the rich, and as a threat to traditional cultures as the
    process of modernization changes societies.

    ACTIVITY 1

    View the following images and answer the following questions in each cartoon:
     What is it about? (e.g. trade, jobs, cultural identity, social justice, multinational
    companies etc.)

     What feeling does it create?


     Is it as mainly positive, mainly negative, or is it unclear? Why?

    CARTOON A

    CARTOON B
    ACTIVITY 2
    Read the following statements about globalization and write your opinion, with
    FACTS, of the main idea or purpose in each. What do you think the writer thinks
    about globalization?
    1. Jobs are leaving many of the developed nations and moving to developing
    nations. The money earned helps those developing nations move forward –
    more jobs, cheaper goods, more profits for research and development.
    Everybody wins.
    2. I interact with other people who live in different countries when I’m playing
    computer games.
    3. Recently we have seen the collapse of undemocratic regimes, improvements in
    workers' rights, an increase in environmental awareness and responsibility, and
    an increased awareness of fair trade as a result of advocacy campaigns using
    social media.
    4. Globalization has caused important changes in who makes decisions that affect
    our lives as multinational companies have more power than national
    governments.
    5. Differences in local conditions require local solutions rather than an externally
    imposed and globally uniform ‘one size fits all’ solution. 

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