SSC 6
The Contemporary World
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Answer the following questions by heart and honestly.
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A Story: Gio, Latif, and the Laksa
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Global experience
The two character in the story is fictitious,
but very likely since, in fact, it is based in
the true to life story of one of the writers.
It was through social gatherings that a
person is capable to experience and
appreciate the meaning and impact of a
globalized world
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The popularity of Filipino Telenovelas in
Malaysia shows how fast this popular
culture has spread and evident all over
Asia. The model UN activity that
participated by Gio and Latif is an
international competition about
international politics. Gio and Latif met in
Sydney because they attended both the
said competition.
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Remember that Sydney is one of the
Global City that obtain its prosperity
and impact from the global capital that
flows through it. Sydney is also the
home of thousands of international
immigrants working in the different
sectors that also export their products
in different countries and continents
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all over the world.
After the international competition,
Gio and Latif kept in touch through
their social media accounts like
Facebook that are known
worldwide social networking sites
that provide straightway
communication in every corner
across the world.
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The story is a unique way in encountering
global stream, but for other people the
shrinking of the world may not be as
fantastic and enlightening. With the help of
the internet that disseminate
news and relevant information, it is very
frequent for teenager in a third world
countries to be recruited in the internet
“mail-order brides” for foreign men living
in industrial countries.
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The National administration decides
to open a foreign investments on the
believe that it can provide wealth
and prosperity in the country by
providing jobs in the citizen and
capital for the country to offer their
public lands to foreign investors as
factories and industrial sites.
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Everyone of us, experience
globalization in a variety of
ways. Remember that
globalization is a complex
phenomenon that occurs in
variety of levels, and also it is an
uneven process that affect us
in different ways.
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What comes first in
your mind when you
hear
the word
Globalization?
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When we hear the word “globalization”
we think primarily about economic
process.
When the national television report
about globalization, mostly it was
referring to international markets,
stocks and bounds, the importation and
exportation of different products
across the world.
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The best scholarly description
of globalization is provided by
Manfred Steger who described
the process as "the expansion
and intensification of social
relations and consciousness a
cross both world-time and
across world-space.” 15
What is Expansio
n?
Expansion refers to of the creation of
new social networks and the
multiplication of existing connections
that cut across traditional political,
economic, cultural, and geographic
boundaries. These various connections
occur at different levels.
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What is Intensificatio
n?
Intensification refers to the
expansion, stretching, and
acceleration of these networks.
Not only are global connections
multiplying, but they are also
becoming more closely-knit and
expanding their reach
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Globalization
and
Globalism
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Globalization represents the many
processes that allow for the expansion
and intensification of global connections.
Globalism is a widespread belief among
powerful people that the global integration
of economic markets is beneficial for every
one, since it spreads freedom and
democracy across the world.
It is a common belief forwarded in media
and policy circles.
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Different kinds of gl
obalization accordi
ng to anthropologist
Arjun Appadurai
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For anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, differe
nt kinds of globalization occur on multiple a
nd intersecting dimensions of integration
that he calls scapes.
1. Ethnoscape –
refers to the global
movement of people.
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2. Technoscape –
refers to the
circulation of
mechanical goods and
software.
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3. Tinancescape - denotes the
global circulation of money;
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4. Ideoscape –
is the realm where political
ideas move around.
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5. Mediascape - the flow
of culture.
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