Is Globalisation Really Necessary?

Question

Is Globalisation Really Necessary?

Answer 1

Globalization is only important to those who seek to capitalize and profit on the efforts of others. The world has survived for thousands of years without the interdependence of all on everyone, and I would think we could continue to survive if some of us were not so inherently greedy. Globalization is critical only to the survival of capitalism!

Answer 2

Is Globalisation Really Necessary

Answer 3

No globalisation is not necessary: globalisation is inevitable. It is a writing on the wall which people who have vestedv self interest in non-globalised environment are reluctant to see/ recognoze. Globalisation is ;proceeding at its own pace and increasing pace irrespective of what human beings are syaing or doing. Societies are going to survive or perish depending on whether a society globalise itself or resist. Non- globaisng human societies will become extinct species.

Answer 4

Globalisation isn't necessary, it's inevitible. There's no way around it - the more of the earth we occupy, and the better we become at communicating with one another over large distances, the more homogenized this world's culture is going to become. The only way around it would be to have a mass die-off of humans, and I think I'll just go ahead and take McCulture over that any day. :-)

Answer 5

Definition:



Globalisation is the process by which the world is becoming more intertwined in both social and economic aspects.





Examples:



People all around the world are more aware of other people, cultures and countries.

The production of goods and services happens in many countries – and often the making of one product may involve several countries.

Globally communications between countries happens much more quickly and easily due to the internet, the media, etc.

There are several corporations around the world that are based in many different countries – production may occur in one country, head office is in another, sales occur on another and so on.





Why the situation occurs?



There are many reasons why globalisation occurs – it would be impossible to explain them all here but here are a couple of reasons and further research can be done on the websites below.



One reason the situation occurs is due to advances in transport and technology. It is now mucheasier to make goods and move them around the world as transport costs have come down in price. This means there are now many well-known global companies dealing in most countries around the world. The downside of this however is that many of these multi-national companies can produce goods in the cheapest locations or ones with few health and safety or labour laws. They can often be seen to be exploiting people in their pursuit of profit and can treat people (staff and workers) badly.



Also with the growth and advancement in information and communications technology people are more knowledgeable about other places and cultures around the world. It is easier for people to keep in touch with others in far away places and even meet new people using tools such as the internet. Travel has also become a part of everyday life as well as again transport costs have reduced. Many places have found that they have lost their own culture as tourism takes over.





How you can make a difference:



Tackle the issue – find out about the differences in people’s lives around the world and also why these occur. Find out about the effects of globalisation on the lives of people in countries other than you own.



Find out about companies that are global and discuss issues that arise because of their size, where they operate and how they treat their employees in different coutries. Look also at the effect on local businesses.



Find out about the practices of ethical companies who promote trade which treats local people more fairly. What goods do they produce, what effect does this have on the lives of local people. What are the views of others on 'fairtrade' products

Answer 6

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It's just an effect of improved communications and travel. Globalization has happened time and time again over the years, but each time on a larger scale. Every major civilization has used globalization to its advantage, but the same thing eventually led to their downfall. Case in point, the Romans . . . they used the expansion to gain strength, slaves, and better technology, but were eventually brought down by invaders who came across Europe.

Answer 7

Necessary for what ?



I think globalisation is necessary for the continued health of western capitalist economies.



Ive got time to kill so I'll expand the point.



1. People need to earn money to survive. This is an unassailable truth in market based economies.



2. The only way to earn money is by investment..whether that investment is time and production (like going to a job and earning a wage) or by investment of capital an individual already has. The same is true for corporations.



3. Individuals or corporations invest capital in the hope of gaining some monetary return. In other words, people invest in a corporation in the hope that the investment will appreciate...and the value of an investment is closely tied to profit and growth. A profitable growing corporation is worth more than a dead one that makes no profit.



4. The only way a corporation can grow profit and revenue is by expanding it's market (resulting in higher revenues) or lowering it's costs (resulting in higher profits on existing revenue). A company that can do this will be more attractive to investors...and that will result in more investment capital being directed to that company.



Let's take a real example to show how globalisation becomes necessary in the 21st century.

Ericsson is a Swedish company that makes cell phones and other telecommunication equipment. The cell phone market in Sweden is fairly well saturated...meaning that there are few potential buyers of cell phones in Sweden that do not already have one, so the prospects for growing revenue in their own country is almost non existent. How can Ericsson satisfy their investors need for capital growth which is closely tied to revenue growth if they cant sell more phones to Swedes ?...Easy...just sell phones to Americans or Brits or Chinese... Hence, Ericsson needs a global market to keep their revenues up and grow the business.



Same is true on the labor side...

A typical Chinese worker can afford to spend much less for a cell phone than a Swedish doctor can...so Ericsson needs lower costs to be able to sell phones in the Chinese market and still be able to make a profit. This drives Ericsson to look for lower cost parts and lower cost labor in areas of the world where the average wage is lower than that in Sweden.



So in essence...people need to earn money to survive and to live the lifestyle they would like to live. People invest capital to earn more capital and corporations are designed to be capital generating machines. Corporations make more profit and grow faster when they buy and sell in a global market place.



So is globalisation necessary ? It is if you like the fact that your cell phone only costs $100....and if you like the fact that you can drink colombian coffee in Chicago...and if you like the fact that you can invest some of your earnings in the knowledge that you will have a comfortable retirement...

Answer 8

The only forseable (sp?) way for the poorer countries to rise up and for the richer countries to survive is through globalization. Yes, it has its drawbacks, but we've all seen the consequences of isolationist policies. So pick your poison.

Answer 9

I think it is. It helps to lower the cost of production of many commodities thereby lowering the prices and also helps to counter problems like racism among the people of the world

Answer 10

Need For Globalization:

Today, growth of any business requires its expansion beyond the traditional geographical limits. This means Globalization. Here,software development has been considered as an example :

Businesses are becoming increasingly global every day. By global, we mean, selling products and services to a global audience. With software becoming an indispensable tool to run businesses, it is an imperative that the software used by businesses also are global in nature to remain competitive in the global arena. Globalization also referred as G11N because of the eleven characters between G and N, in the context of software is the act of making of applications usable in more than one country.



The need to globalize software is crucial because the Internet makes it easy to sell your products across the globe to anyone and most of the people surfing the net today are non-English speaking. By an estimate nearly 70% of surfers by the year 2005 will be non-English speakers.



Retrospectively looking at the penetration of Internet in our own country one can make tentative estimates of what the Indian market will be down the line say in a year or two. Most of the users of software and the Internet will be native language speakers. Given the large cultural and linguistic variation of the country, it is important to globalize software applications so they can be sold in the different states across the country. Already there are many Indic variants of popular software products that are being sold.



Microsoft provides support for many Indic languages through the National Language Support (NLS) API. Until now, Bangla and Malayalam were the two languages that are not supported directly on Windows. The new Windows XP service pack 2 provides support for these two Indic languages. This opens a whole new market to Software vendors.



To develop applications that are world ready you require adequate support for software development and conformance to standards. Window XP is an world-ready operating system as are other applications such as Office and Visual Studio. .NET supports development of world ready applications by supporting standards such as Unicode and providing a host of API to work with international, culture-specific, and linguistic issues.



Software globalization involves two processes known as Internationalization and Localization. The subsequent sections of this article explore these.



Internationalization



Internationalization also referred as I18N because of the eighteen characters between I and N, in the context of software is the act of designing software to handle linguistic and cultural variations to avoid engineering overhead at the time development.



Basically, I18N involves separation of language and cultural information from the program source code. Usually programmers, hardcode string literals, currencies, numbers, calendars and the like. If a program that contains these hardcoded artifacts needs to be sold to people of different country and culture, then the entire source code has to be rewritten to change this hardcoded information. A properly internationalized application does not incur this overhead of changing parameters to suit an audience of different culture and country. Introduction of new standards and practices or changes to existing standards may also raise issues in I18N. For example, the adoption of the common euro currency in Europe affects I18N.



An Internationalized application,



Aggregates information that are language and culture specific into external resource files

Enables the user interface (UI) to display different language and cultural information

Makes sure that all de jure and de facto standards for a country or region is supported

Makes sure the characters to display a language or languages of a country or region are supported

The above four points are not exhaustive but they are the most important and basic requirements for internationalizing an application. In practical terms, it is nothing but writing an application in such a way that string literals, currencies, numbers, calendars and the like are not hardcoded but they are picked up at runtime based on country and region settings of the system or according to the preference of the user.



I18n should be integrated in the design process of the application. The major advantage of internationalizing software is because it assists in localizing software, thereby reducing cost of software and time to market.



Every application consists of a code block and data block. The data block contains culture specific data. This data is used by the code block. The information contained within the data block is always used based on a set of rules. These rules vary from country to country. For example, in the United States currency denominations are prefixed with a Dollar ($) symbol and in Europe the same are prefixed with a Euro (€) symbol. In India we require currency to be prefixed using Rupee (Rs) symbol. Therefore these country or region specific rules could pertain to



The data format being used for a language, or the character specifications and encodings

Date and Time formatting

Numeric and Currency formatting

Weights and Measurements

Rules to sort words of a particular language

Any internationalized application has to be tested for localizability. Localizability is nothing but preparing an application or an application being ready, for localization.

Answer 11

yes

Answer 12

essential evil