globalization

My thoughts of globalization were just that it was happening whether it be good or bad it is here and there isnt much we can do about it. After the first video we watched, i really thought about what the one man said abuot losing individuality and uniqueness, but i still feel that there isnt much we can do to change what is going on in our world, at least not yet.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about Americanization, I feel like it is a good thing that people are learning of things from our world and other worlds and applying them to each other, but i still feel like people may lose themselves when they do things like this. As long as they can keep these interests, but still have their own cultures and be themselves, i do not feel like it has to be a bad thing.

McDonaldization is basically a term to let people understand how fast food restaurants are dominating american society and the world. There are McDonalds and other types of fast food places everywhere from here to Africa to China. The reason this is not good is because it is targeting too many young children and is one of the causes of childhood obesity.

Pessimistic Hyperglobalizers are the kind of people who argue that we are not coming together as a whole world and reflecting everyone cultures except merely becoming more and more Americanized and moving toward popular western cultures.

Optimistic Hyperglobalizers they agree with the people above but believe that it is a good thing instead. They believe that this can bring good outcomes and other worlds and cultures can learn good things from America.