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My Opinion on Nike is that what its doing is cheap, but it is providing jobs for people overseas.  In America we can say these people aren’t even making a dollar a day, but can say that’s cruel if there standard of living isn’t as high as ours.  They might be able to survive off of one dollar a day due to low cost of goods in other countries.  Nike affects factories in the United State because factories over here see how much Nike is making and how cheap they can pay people, so they want to do the same as them.  The factories over here want to make more money so they move shop overseas and it’s really not helping because it is brings our economy down and our source of work down.  Nike is an influence on these factories and its just part of the globalization market.  I think McJobs are jobs that are out there to replace the factory jobs.  A McJob is America’s way to say “where not losing jobs, you’re just not talking the less paying ones we have to offer.”  I have never had a McJob, I did work at a grocery store but that was for like a month, it wasn’t a replacement job or anything such as a McJob.

The United State the center of Globalization

United States the center of Globalization

 

The United States is the center of globalization in many ways from technology, to the sense of style.  Our country is very big and has a wide variety of cultures that makes up who we are, can u really say the Unites States has tradition such as Italy and Egypt.  Everyone’s culture mixed together makes up the United States and that is what makes us unique.  In a way it is a bit funny how all these other countries want to be like us, when we are going off there old traditions and ethics of life.  You could call the United States a poser, or copycat just but how much we steal from other countries.  If you ride down the road for 2-3 miles in Indiana, PA you can see vast globalization in the restaurants and store we have.  You can see a Taco Bell (Mexican), King Buffet (Chinese), Pizza Hut (Italian), and may of others but we call them American restaurants in other countries because they where made here from the traditional foods of other countries.  As you know Indiana, PA one hour and a half from a major city, is really not that diverse.  The diversity only comes from the college; it’s weird that this town has so much culture just from Americanized restaurants. 

Globalization is every where from the cloths we wear to the car we drive, nine times out of ten the cloths we wear where made in a poorer country but the shirt my read a name that say “American Eagle.”  Our car maybe a Ford or Chevy, an American Vehicle, but most of the parts where manufactured by foreign companies.  The United States is funny in how they do business; we are a money hungry country, the cheaper the better no matter how the quality is.  Most of our products are imported because it’s cheaper, but we don’t see it being cheaper because we get charged regular price. 

The real question is what makes the Unites States better in the globalization market from Japan, England, France, Canada and some other well developed countries.  It could because we stick our noise in other countries business and then take what they started, finish it before them and call it our own.  Henry Ford a very successful American car maker invented the assembly line, but did he really? From previous history the Chinese had the first assembly Line idea when Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi have clay soldiers assembled and they where put together in separate sections such as a assembly line.  I think there has been many of great inventions invented right here in the great states but most of our most prestigious things came for other countries and cultures.  The Cow, an animal that you find right in the American homeland, and an animal that has the meat that we consume on a day to day basis is not American, it came from Europe.  Can you really call a hamburger American?  The government that we pride on country on, Democracy, is not American, the type of government comes from France.  Can you call baseball an American past time when it was invented by the Russians in the 1300’s.  My Point is what is American and what is foreign; it’s hard to distinguish if you don’t know the history of everything.

Our country has been built on immigrants, so do we now have the right to deny incoming immigrants?  The true American people are Native Americans but this day in age they are seldom in number.  What we think of a typical American man is a six foot middle class white man.  This day in age with the diversity, can we say that, I don’t think we can?  Is it what we want to be perceived as in other countries?  The United States is so diverse and globalized that we can classify a standard American man which is a good thing.  In other countries that’s different, take China for example; a standard working class man could be sex foot and look like the next man, in the United States that different because we are so globalized.

The Educated Student: Global Citizen or Global Consumer?

The reading from Benjamin Barber was very interesting in the way that, in my words I felt that it was about American Independence and how it was reshaped from 9/11.  He discussed important issues about equality of education and how women and African American just got the right not that long ago to an equal education.  The founding’s of new things in America having led witness to many things within education and leads the entertainment industries to intervene.  Entertainment has been taught into our minds just by the products we eat on our campuses, but has been taught to us more due to how much money we make.  Advertising in the inter city is more likely due to the fact they don’t have as much.  The advertising company will offer them products to lease just if they show there students one twelve minute advertising video.  In more rich school the advertising wouldn’t happen because they don’t need assistance with products and things of that nature.  What the advertising companies are doing is kind of like the Military, if you don’t have money for college come to the military and we’ll pay for it but you just have to serve for three year.  The advertising way is “well pay for you products if you broadcast out product.”  He talks about how American not invincible, America’s battles where is always fought over seas and the new technologies thought America couldn’t get attacked on the homeland.  The hero’s after 9/11 where not famous moguls the where the citizens of America.  With the attacks of 9/11 he talked about how educators need to seize the moment and this can change the way education is perceived.  What I think of this passage is that it was well written and told but I didn’t make much sense to me because it jumped all over the place.  It was more of his own opinion and what he thought was right then actual fact.

Globalisation

The passage of Globalisation and a little background of the author Anthony Giddens.  He was born in 1938 and one of England’s most prominent sociologist and culture critics.  In the article of globalization he starts out how wide spread globalization is, and how 10 years ago the world barely existed.  The passage discusses the different positions on the issue and who is right in the globalization debate.  The radicals believe the level of world trade today is much higher then what it was in the past, and involves much more things.  The reading talks about electronic money or new electronic global economy and how money can be transferred to anybody to anywhere in the world by the click of a mouse.  He discusses the history of communication, and also how we recognize global celebrities better than our own neighbors.  In his words globalization is dominated by the United States and everyone is starting to Westernize or Americanize.  Globalization has helped the richest part of the globe but has dropped global income from in the poorest parts.  In Anthony Giddens essay it basically talks about globalization and history of globalization in his, own words.  The essay is almost the same as the other essay we read but from a different prospective, discussing all what has changed and what his point is of globalization is almost the same as what I read before.

The Noble Feat of Nike/ Fear Not Globalization Blog

The readings by Johan Norberg were basically about Nike in Vietnam.  It argued that that sweatshops in third world countries is bad, but it also good.  It walked about how Nike doesn’t pay there workers enough and they would make about fifty-four dollars a month.  The reading states that if a worker worked for 3 years they could afford a bike and if they worked for 3 more years they could afford a scooter.  It also argued that sweatshops and what Nike is doing is good.  After an interview with a Nike Worker she said that she likes working in a build instead of the hot sun.  The women said if she was a farmer she would make 3 times less and she would be out in the hot sun or intense rain for 10-14 hours.  She likes that fact that she makes more than her husband and her son can now get a good education.  Nike has change Vietnam around and has changed it for the better, but some people argue it is still for the worst.

The reading from Joseph S. Nye Jr. was talking about how globalization is the blame for a lot of things such as hunger, and destruction of indigenous cultures.  The reading talked about how America is the forefront of globalization.  America influences a lot of the world (Japan mostly), but it also talked about how other country mock our daily live such as the cloths we wear.  It talks a lot about how we influences industrialization and a lot of the bigger countries where following along.  The passage talks about the traditional corporations are changing small countries but no homogenizing them.  If America did not exist where would the world be in the communication department?  The reading just wanted us to know that America is the force field of globalization and it is helping a little bit to help little countries, and we industrialized a lot of big countries.

“The Global Village Finally Arrives” Blog

The passage by Pico Iyer basically talks about how the world is the same.  Pico Iyer is from Indian parents with degrees from Harvard and Oxford, he is an English citizen.  Pico Iyer has written and published a lot of literature including one novel.  In the reading it talks about how America is everywhere, and the world is has no culture anymore.  American restaurants are everywhere in the world, even if they don’t serve fries they serve what is native.  Certain places in the world are over run by a certain ethnicity, even though that ethnic background is not from there.  Pico Iyer questions his culture, being born of Indian parents, a British citizen, living in southern California.  The diversity of everyday life, such as living in the United States driving a German car and getting served a Mexican burrito by a Japanese women. American T.V. getting shown in 140 countries, while kids in foreign countries singing American songs as we sing song from foreign countries.  It talks about the differences between countries such as technology for example the city of Tokyo has more telephones than the continent of Africa alone.  Not all countries are influences by American culture but they soon will be.  America’s job isn’t to be the super military of the world but the multicultural super power of the world.

Globalization Blog

The reading was about passages from Thomas L. Friedman.  But the main focus was globalization.  In the passages it states how the power of state and the power of people.   In the passage is state the investment and how just by the click of a mouse millions of dollars can be sent anywhere in the world.  It talks about home American spent 75 millions dollars on missiles to fire at Osama bin laden in 1998.  Osama Bin Laden declared war on the unites states in the 1990’s he bombed the world trade centers, bombed American embassies in Africa, bombed U.S. ship, and also ran planes into the world trade centers.  The passage talks about how the networks give more power to individuals to influence market and national states.  America is the superpower of globalization.  Globalization is “the inexorable integration of markets, transportation systems, and communication systems to a degree never witnessed before- in a way that is enabling corporations, countries, and individuals to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper, and cheaper than ever before.”

Big Ten Football

I want to know your feedback on Big 10 Football, personally i am a Buckeye fan and will always be, but in the last couple year the big 10 team have been making us look bad.

Do you think the Big 10 is as strong as say the SEC, Big 12, Pac 10, Big East, ACC, WAC?

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