Research 1

Source:

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/globalization
http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/globalization.html
http://www.globalization101.org/what-is-globalization/

My Topic:

Should we think Internet's contribution to globalization positively?

What I hope to learn from this source:

I want to find the definition of 'globalization' which is appropriate for my essay. 

Notes:

<definitions of globalization from various sources>

◉ Oxford Dictionary : globalization is the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale

◉ Business Dictionary : The world wide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration. Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately.

◉ the website which introduces what is globalization is

( http://www.globalization101.org/what-is-globalization/) :

Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international tradeand investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and onhuman physical well-being in societies around the world.

 

⇒ My own definition : the definitions of globalization are very various. However, they have common idea that globalization is the process of interaction and integration in economical, cultural, and financial worldwide within various nations.

<History of Globalization>

Many people think globalization is a recent one, but we can find globalization from thousand years ago. We can say the examples of trades many years ago between the easter countries and western countries. The merchants from both side sold their products to other merchants from different region, and the path named Silk Road connected areas in a distant such as Central Asia, China, and Europe, is the proof of their trades. In fact, the current wave of globalization which everybody knew began after the Second World War. After the war, many governments have adopted free market and open economic systems and policies. The international trades and investments increased between various countries. Many governments removed barriers in commerce and have established international agreements to promote trade in goods, services, and investments. Corporations took advantage of new opportunities in foreign markets and they started built their factories in foreign areas. Also, a huge amount of people immigrated and emmigrated.

 

Final Thoughts: 

Globalization has lots of meanings, but most of them have common idea that it's a process of worldwide integration and interation. In that case, globalization is not a recent one and some phenomenon we can find thousand years ago. After the research about the history of globalization, globalization become familiar to me because it has always existed with people. I realized that free market policy affected globalization after the second world war.  Also, after the research, I decided to research about positive and negative impacts of globalization.