Culture vs. Unity?

Over the last few weeks, my colleagues have pointed out certain aspects of the globalization language issue. If we are as one, should we not speak as one? Should there not be some language that all will know and communicate with? However, there is a certain concern hinted at in these posts – the future [...]

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A Good Distortion.

Society, culture, transportation, economics, politics, the environment, communication, languages, tourism, finances, education, and the list can go on and on. All of these things have at least one thing in common: they’ve all felt the impact of globalization at one point or another.
Having said that, could you imagine other aspects of life that globalization [...]

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Ĉu vi parolas Esperanton?

As my esteemed colleague Mario mentioned in a previous blog post, the idea of a common world language is one that is becoming increasingly more popular as time wears on and the world becomes more and more based on global standards and economies. In business operations, the language barrier is quite possibly the most prominent [...]

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So Much for Structure.

As I sat down at my Macintosh G5 computer, cup of Starbucks coffee in my hand, iPod charging, and Architecture In Helsinki CD blasting in a $5000 home stereo system, I suddenly realized how much the cursed system of capitalism had done for me… and how much it had destroyed everybody else. Returning from [...]

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A Common Tongue.

Some models of Honda automobiles are designed in Japan and assembled in the United States with American labours and with parts manufactured in Europe. Is this Honda a Japanese car?
The question posed is an interesting one. In truth it’s a global car coming from a Japanese company which has become a global company. So, [...]

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Reading, writing, and arthimetic.

Frequently, within the context of globalization, a sizeable percentage of the news reports are negative. An even greater percentage of these same reports refer to the economy, as if that was the only component to the wide spectrum of topics that are blanketed by the term “globalization.” However, the word entails more than dollars, cents, [...]

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The Other Side.

“Globalization could be the answer to many of the world’s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.” – Sharan Burrow, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU)

We all tend to hear the term ‘globalization’ and think solely of the economics that [...]

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The Children of Globalization

The Children of Globalization
Outsourcing Concerns and the Fate of the Next Generation
“I think there’s going to be an enormous shift of occupations. Most jobs are going to change. They’ll survive, but they’ll change.” – Alvin Toffler
It’s a fairly common notion that our children are our future. We raise them, nurture them, and educate them, [...]

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Moving out.

“Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology,” according to the website globalization101.org, a project of the Levin Institute of the State University of New York (SUNY). This definition wraps up a serious, [...]

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Welcome. Bienvenue. Bienvenidos.

You are reading the opening post of the City High Seventh Hour Globalization Blog, created for the Miske-Cochran Modern Problems Class, as an assignment for the final semester of the 2007-2008 school year.
In case you couldn’t tell, our topic for this semester is globalization. That is, we will be discussing, in a series of blog [...]

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