Title: Major%20Players%20in%20Globalization
1Major Players in Globalization
2Activity (5 mins)
- Globalization can be both helpful and hurtful.
- Together with your elbow partner, look at the
examples on the bottom of p. 39. - Decide if each example is a good or bad
illustration of globalization. - Also write how the example is related to
globalization.
3Continue with Shipbreakers
- Continue to fill out your T chart as we view
another section of Shipbreakers. - Yesterday, I asked you questions.
- Today, you decide when to stop for questions or
clarification. - Call out or put up your hand.
- Ask to pause when you notice something
interesting. - Ask your classmates questions.
4Detour Handout p.38
- Fill in the table on the bottom of p. 38 based on
the following information I will provide on the
screen.
5Large Manufacturing Corporations
- Also known as
- transnationals
- multinationals
- What do they do?
- They sell goods, manufactured products
- Where do they do it?
- Production done in countries where wages are low
and costs are low and taxes are low in order to
make profit (developing countries). Products tend
to be sold in developed countries to people who
have disposable income. - Role in globalization suppliers
Unit 3 Detour worksheet, Q2b
6Large International Banks
- Such as RBC, HSBC (the worlds local bank)
- Why do they use these acronyms?
- To appear more generic
- What do they do? Sell financial services
(financialization ) - Who benefits?
- Banks, corporations, the economy, financial
elites (1) - Negative consequences?
- Income can become concentrated in the hands of
the wealthy (financial elite) income inequality - Role in globalization facilitators
Unit 3 Detour worksheet, Q2b
7International Governmental Organizations
- What do they each do?
- WTO World Trade Organization reduces
restrictions on intl trade - WB World Bank provides loans to developing
countries - IMF International Monetary Fund maintains stable
exchange rates to increase world trade - Role in globalization regulators/promoters
Unit 3 Detour worksheet, Q2b
83 Volunteers
- Please briefly share what you wrote on the detour
sheet.
9Detour Handout
- Work in groups to fill out the
- Key Terms table at the top of p. 38 using p.
326 of your text - (column 1 and a bit).
10Anthropology and Globalization
11Anthropological Interpretations
- Sidetracking
- Diffusion
- Americanization
- What do these all have in common?
- Fill out China Globalization handout on p. 40.
- Give an example of each from China.
- Give an example from the globalization images.
12Cultural Costs of Globalization
- Cultural Costs, pages 329-331
- Consequences of internationalization of cultures
- Cultural losses
- Young peoples sense of __________ as they lose
touch with their traditional culture (e.g.,
Inuit) - __________ (e.g., Quebec can be overwhelmed by
English culture) - ____________ (e.g., when building hydroelectric
dams in the Amazon) - Changing of cultural norms
- izations
- Homogenization (________ of cultures)
- Deterritorialization (when one culture is not
physically attached to one ________, often
because of migration, immigration) - Westernization/Americanization
- Industrialization
13You Are the Anthropologist
- HSBC taxi ad
- http//www.youtube.com/watch?vfUTl1f24zIo
- What questions would an anthropologist ask as
he/she travelled in the taxi?
14Economic Costs of Globalization (330, 332)
- Costa Rica
- Cash crops crops grown for sale, usually export
- Profit goes to the __________ where the products
are exported and sold or fully processed - Loss of independent decision-making
- Social programs are things like welfare, health
care social safety net programs where
government intervenes in the economy to protect
people - Costa Rica had them but ___________ them when it
wanted to get more involved in the global
economy. To make itself more attractive to
foreign investors and to be in a position to
receive IMF and WB loans, it needed to have low
_________ and ______.
15Debrief How do you feel about Globalization?
- Globalization is not necessarily good or bad.
- Its effects can be good or bad, or the way its
done can have good or bad consequences. - The problem is the benefits of globalization
arent necessarily distributed equally. - Do you think theres a bias in this chapter of
the text?
16HOMEWORK