Manuel Boehm
Belgium
How to protect indigenous people from globalization
Today many people are worried about the changes that globalization brings.
Globalization brings changes to the culture, the language, the job as well as changes to
the situations of indigenous people. Through globalization people are confronted with a
fast changing world, where they have to be worried about losing their jobs to a cheaper
labor in another country.
The many languages on earth are dominated by English, Spanish, Chinese and a
few other languages. Additionally, in these days, companies are located around the whole
world. To communicate better in this world, these few languages dominate more and
more above other languages, resulting through the dominance of the big industry nations,
therefore other languages get lost. To avoid this step, the United Nations shall support
countries, trying to save their own customs and languages in many ways.
The United Nations shall demand every country offer required classes of the official
language in the country, but also offer classes for local languages for everyone in this
region, in order to save this language. This does not include certain dialect, but
languages that are different than the official language, even if it is related to the official
language.
To protect local cultures we have to define their “opponents”. The problem is that
international trade cultural influences from all over the world confront a culture. Of
course you cannot stop this, because there is a right for freedom in the world and you
cannot just ban international trade. Furthermore, such a state of a culture influenced by
different cultures creates a more metropolitan, modern culture. The United Nations does
not want to avoid such a state of a culture, but wants to help every region to save the old
culture and remember their origin. To protect different cultures, the United Nations
wants to let the countries on earth to know, how important the culture of their region is.
It should make sure, that the governments protect the cultures. This does not mean, that
the government should only protect the culture – it should let in the new influences – but
it should try to keep the original ones.
To protect indigenous people further, we have to realize, that we have to keep the
changes and developments of a global market, to fight poverty on earth. We also have to
offer every labor good human conditions. Everyone has to realize that money is not the
primary goal to aim at. Employers have to form a nice environment for the employees to
work. The United Nations should form a petition to save their rights and demand the
countries on earth to sign it. The big, international companies should also be demanded
to sign it.
A survey by the United Nations indicates that industrial nations can easily afford
to help the third-world-countries to fight illnesses, poverty and can ban poverty in this
century. It would not cost so much if all the industrial nations would do their part to fight
poverty. In the world today, we should be ready to help these people. Even if the
globalization brings people in third-world-countries cheap labor, the poverty is not
banned with this step. We should use this chance to end poverty there. The industrial
nations do not want to lose work for their citizens. But if they would spend more money
for research, they would gain new jobs and the industrial jobs could be relocated in the
third-world-countries, where this could help fight poverty. Therefore the United Nations
supports research in the industrial nations and will try to help governments in thirdworld-countries to attract companies.
Globalization brings a lot of danger to indigenous people but also opportunities.
The aim of the United Nations is, to protect people from the dangers and use the
opportunities to help indigenous people on the whole world.