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In my opinion it's on the one hand good because people in  developing countries get a job and so on but on the other hand if they work in sweatshops and get exploited ,globalization become unneccessary because the companys should help the inhabitans an ddon't exploit them .Isn't it?

Let's discuss because I think everybody is wearing a habiliment which is not from his  country.

If the people in a developing country can earn more money working in a sweatshop than working a field or not working at all, I don't think it's such a bad thing. 

What these countries need is actually MORE sweatshops. More competition for workers will raise wages, conditions and benefits.  

I agree with Greg. Globalization opens people's chances to work abroad but people do have to understand that they should fill the international standard because now they're not only going to fight for a job with another citizens from his country but also with foreigners. but actually it's a good thing because people will try to raise their individual skills.

I agree with globalization; it siphons money naturally from wealthy countries to poorer ones based on GNP, and increases overall GDP over time for poorer nations.  Sweat shops are just a stepping stone for a self sufficient economy.

What I disagree with is this "fair trade" business, because it creates a deceptive picture of economics for the people it's trying to help- it's really just inflated trade that, with the best of intentions, screws up economies.  You can't pay people too much for coffee beans in developing countries, because it'll make every farmer grow coffee beans in hopes to sell them, thus producing famine when the West won't buy them all (coffee beans aren't good food).

Buy from the cheapest source, and eventually the cheapest source won't be the cheapest any more because their standards of living will have improved and they will demand higher wages.

We only need to be careful not to stop buying too quickly, because that can lead to market crashes- developing countries need to diversify their economies slowly.  They need to move from cheaper products to move expensive ones gradually (which is another reason "fair trade" is dangerous- it artificially inflates their GNPs and threatens to cut them off from the markets too quickly).

Free trade globalization = good (with intentions for profit)

"Fair" trade = bad (with good intentions- ironic how trying to help hurts, and trying to help yourself helps others)

globalisation…

what is sure is  that lilttle by litlle, countries lose their individuality, culture and customs….

like everything it has pros and cons.. from the first side it's destroying culture and customs of praticular countries, but from the other exploring the world is now much more easier then it was in the past..

Good and bad   why ? don't ask me i'm tird

in the end of this descussion it  will be seems  good and bad

globalisation…

what is sure is  that lilttle by litlle, countries lose their individuality, culture and customs…

Interesting that you said that. In one of my English classes few weeks ago, we had a debate/discussion about the pending US-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. One of my students made a similar arguement; that the more Colombia opens itself to foreign investment and foreign products, the more it loses it's identity and culture and that people will not think of themselves as Colombian anymore.

I asked the student if he had a cell phone. Yes Nokia (Finnish company, phone made in China or Taiwan probably,

He also owned an ipod (american company, made in china)

His family had an American car, assembled in USA byt from parts all over the world)

They had a Sony Playstation (Japanese company)

Clothing made in Thailand

Other electronics made in China  etc etc.

Did he think of himself as American, Chinese?  No Still Colombian

foreign investment is welcome anytime, if it creates new possibilities for people to get jobs…just that in time, without realizing or just because of some rules that might be imposed, we lose our traditions!!! we do!deep down we don't , maybe we keep them alive, but as a whole, the nation will lose from this point of wiev…...

Can you give me an example of some traditions that are lost when you have foreign investment in a country?

"I agree with globalization; it siphons money naturally from wealthy countries to poorer ones based on GNP, and increases overall GDP over time for poorer nations.  Sweat shops are just a stepping stone for a self sufficient economy."

I'm not a stepping stone, I'm a human and deserve dignity for being human. So called "global capital" do not linger around the world for the sake of humanitarian purposes. They are investing on rational basis of course which exactly means "slave-scouting" for me. What some people refer to globalism is nothing really different than neo-imperialism. Nation-states(!) are destroying social rights of their own citizens in order to attract global capital to their country. It's been so long that politics lost its identity especially in underdeveloped world. This is because whether the label is "left" or "right", all political parties play the very same game sometimes at the cost of refuting their own pre-election rhetorics (Dont you think that Lula da Silva is a good example illustrating this situation?)

What if nation-states turn away from this game and act like a "nation-state" in literal sense of word? Big brother is watching you!!! So watch out :) I'm not only implying a possible military or economical sanction to be posed by the US and the EU… There is also a financial reality. If you act hostile against "global" capital, then standard&poors, fitch, etc is no likely to act friendly against you when they are to determine your rate. Let's suppose that you are ready to face the results of your actions as a politician… Are you ready to explain the reasons of sharp volatility of your currency rate to your electorate? What if your citizens are much more interested in the buttocks of J. Lopez or boobs of B.Spears, therefore not ready to give support in the way of nationalizing the economy? That is to say, it is no easy job to challange global system…

I hope I can get advantage of globalization and sent to shanghai for job by a big company :)  I hope globalization is gonna offer me the chance to make my break with my own country. I'm not gonna criticize globalization provided I got my pay-off lol :)

I would like to put forward a question for Germans who are watching this topic. Your bosses are moving your labour to East Europe and Turkey by shifting their production from Germany to those countries. They are opening new factories not in Germany but in Turkey (oh globalization rulezzz!!!! You know what? A worker in Bosch earns some 400-500$ for the beginning! %60-70 of this salary goes to apartment rent… So you can easily get it: this is below subsistence wage!!! But thanks to globalization… There are so many workers earning their "bread" owing to globalization. Turkey could not produce jobs on its own!!! Thanks Mr. Global Capital!!!)

Anyway… For almost countless reasons, globalization seems to be an inevitable process. So we'd better focus on the positive sides of globalization. Globalization is rapidly undermining the racist&nationalist extremism all over the world. People are more likely to celebrate diversity rather than claiming supremacy of a particular nation… Owing to the free access of cultural materials, people are more likely to question old-fashioned taboos. This very fact paves the way for openness so that social life becomes much more dinamic…

Enough of it