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    1. Subtler structural barriers like socioeconomic class, ethnicity, gender, and geographic location are often more powerful deterrents to global flows than material barriers. Wealthy individuals and institutions like the World Bank, IMF, and WTO support maintaining existing inequalities. 2. Global networks can accelerate information sharing but also act as barriers if certain infrastructure is restricted, like China's firewall limiting internet access. While globalization has expanded financial networks, some limitations still exist. 3. According to Zygmunt Bauman's theories, liquid phenomena tend to dissolve barriers in their path rather than circumvent them, as seen with challenges to reducing illegal cross-border flows.

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    1. Subtler structural barriers like socioeconomic class, ethnicity, gender, and geographic location are often more powerful deterrents to global flows than material barriers. Wealthy individuals and institutions like the World Bank, IMF, and WTO support maintaining existing inequalities. 2. Global networks can accelerate information sharing but also act as barriers if certain infrastructure is restricted, like China's firewall limiting internet access. While globalization has expanded financial networks, some limitations still exist. 3. According to Zygmunt Bauman's theories, liquid phenomena tend to dissolve barriers in their path rather than circumvent them, as seen with challenges to reducing illegal cross-border flows.

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    1. Subtler structural barriers like socioeconomic class, ethnicity, gender, and geographic location are often more powerful deterrents to global flows than material barriers. Wealthy individuals and institutions like the World Bank, IMF, and WTO support maintaining existing inequalities. 2. Global networks can accelerate information sharing but also act as barriers if certain infrastructure is restricted, like China's firewall limiting internet access. While globalization has expanded financial networks, some limitations still exist. 3. According to Zygmunt Bauman's theories, liquid phenomena tend to dissolve barriers in their path rather than circumvent them, as seen with challenges to reducing illegal cross-border flows.

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    Sanchez, Camille Joy C.

    January 27, 2023


    BSCRIM 1A The Contemporary World 101

    1. Examine the dual role of structures as barriers to, and facilitators of, global flows. Are
    subtler structural barriers more effective than material barriers?
    In many ways, subtler structural barriers are more powerful than the more material barriers,
    such as trade agreements and national borders. On the basis of socioeconomic class, color,
    ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and geographic location, these systems function to
    separate and dominate. Powerful people in positions of authority build barriers to impede flows.
    The World Bank, IMF, and WTO all support the wealthy. Having the idea that greater privilege is
    less heavy. People with money can move much more effortlessly.

    2. What is the significance of networks in the current age of globalization? Is it possible for
    networks to act as deterrents or barriers to flows?
    The global network covers the entire world (local, national, international, and transnational). The
    flow of many different things, including the movement of information, can be accelerated by
    these networks. The internet has the ability to transmit useful information, truth, innovation, and
    timeless wisdom in commerce, science, law, government, and technology. Network participants
    have access to a wide range of information that they can exchange with one another in various
    ways. However, it is possible for such networks to be stopped in a number of ways, just like all
    other structures (such as the "Great Firewall"). The infrastructure of the international banking
    system, for instance, makes it possible for a network of banks to transport money throughout
    the world. Globalization has unquestionably benefited this network. However, factors like
    China's Great Firewall may act as a barrier or discouragement to international flows. Because
    there are still some limitations, including restrictions of people's ability to access the Internet.

    3. Do liquids dissolve structures blocking their path, or do they merely circumnavigate


    them?
    The focus on globalization in this book is influenced by Bauman's ideas on liquidity. Liquid
    phenomena can't keep their shape for very long or with ease. They are neither fixed in time nor
    space. Most significantly, liquids have a tendency to dissolve anything in their path. Which
    means, liquids often dissolve the barriers in their way rather than simply circumnavigate them.
    One example of this would be the challenge of reducing the flow of illegal immigrants, drugs,
    and organized crime on a worldwide scale.

    4. Discuss the impact of increased liquidity on hierarchical social structures.


    Unfortunately, more gaseousness and liquidity only serve to increase gap between rich
    and poor. Despite increased liquidity and an increase in different forms of flows, there is
    still significant inequality in the world. While the wealthy world experiences globalization
    more easily, it largely ignores many regions in the less developed world. The
    Philippines, which is in the third world, is one of the best examples. The less developed
    world struggles to keep up with the first world's rapid technological growth, compelling
    them to do so even if they lack the first world's level of resources.

    5. Compare the current “ global age ”to previous periods which have been said to be
    associated with globalization.
    David Held and his co-authors made the following distinction between thin and thick
    globalization in the incredibly influential book "Global Transformations." They contend that thin
    (historical) globalization can be described as having high extensity, low intensity, low velocity,
    and low impacts. As opposed to thin (contemporary) globalization, which has a high extensity,
    intensity, velocity, and impacts. Thus, both types of globalization have a very broad impact and
    reach. Contemporary Globalization is faster, more focused and much deeper than the historical
    form, as barriers were present at that time; preventing free movement of people, information,
    and objects in that era.As time and population increase, human civilization becomes more
    interconnected. The 7 billion individuals who inhabit this planet may now interact and advance
    as a civilization more easily than ever before thanks to the development of technology. As
    opposed to earlier, pre-modern societies communicated using a variety of writing forms, which
    limited the scope of communication. Additionally, it is said that today's smartphones have more
    processing power than the entire NASA in 1969, when the agency sent two astronauts to the
    moon. Really, globalization made things differently.

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