Wiem, że ten esej jest długi, niemniej jednak liczę na cud w postaci jakiejś dobrej osóbki, która pofatygowałaby się i go sprawdziła.
To naprawdę ważna dla mnie praca i bardzo mi zależy na tym, żeby jakoś brzmiała.
Arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity
Globalization is well-known and quickly spreading nowadays. No matter how sceptic our disposition towards this process may be, globalization is something impossible to curb.
We can distinguish three basic types of globalization: economic, political and cultural. The last one is the most conspicuous while talking about ordinary citizens’ daily routine.
The world seems to be shrinking; cultural and social differences between countries are getting less and less distinct. Most of us have realized that ‘global village’ is something our world is truly converting into. We have lost a great deal of our national identity in favour of united world.
National traditions are gradually losing their importance being replaced by mass culture.
There are the same restaurants – McDonald’s or Pizza Hut – in the USA, German and Australia. There are the same films and the same clothes. People listen mostly to the same music. There are the same large corporations which lord it over the smaller ones.
However, unification has not yet risen up to a dramatic extent, what does not deny that there should be borders put on it. On the other hand, such borders would just slow the process down, but nothing or nobody is capable to stop it.
After years of striving for boundless world we should be aware that different countries will no longer be treated as independent unities. If we snapped to the past for a while, we could easily see how globalization stepped forward. A few dozen years ago each province or county was meant to be different from another one and independent. Then differences between parts of the country became nearly invisible. Then it can come to treating few continents as a whole.
If we do not lose controle of this situation, globalization might be very profitable.
It is definitely connected with a great amount of advantages: the less developed countries have a chance for a dramatically quicker modernization; new useful technologies and ideas are spreading very quickly over the world. Generally, we have a far greater access to something widely understood as “information”.
However, at the very beginning, to make use of aforementioned profits, we must accept the fact of globalization. It is a natural process and soner or later, it had to begin.
It is no use in trying to isolate countries anew, because ‘internationality’ is just necessary.
Thus, it is very difficult to be ‘international’ and to cooperate without deriving patterns from cultures and countries we cooperate with. The essence is not to accept everything blindlessly but to derive what is the best and to keep in mind that in spite of globalization we are obliged to guard our national and regional traditions as well.
Globalization is often perceived as no more as unification. On the contrary, globalization is meant to convert our society into a united, but still internally diversified one.