Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Pros and Cons
of
Globalization
- Dangers/Risks/Fears
of Globalization
- Hopes/Chances/Opportunities of
Globalization
- Environment
- Higher CO2 emissions
- Pollution
- Global warming
- Developing countries
- Hope to get
work and
prosperity
- New jobs are available
and access to world
market
- Reduction of
poverty
- Many people still suffer from malnutrition or die of diseases
- Dependency on developed countries
- Increasing independence on foreign support, credits and investment
- Unfair/inhumane working conditions
- Industrial world/Economy
- Exports improve
economy
(international/free
trade)
- Wide range of
products/food at any time
- Growing prosperity
for producers
- Countries can help each
other
- financial crisis in one country can affect others
as well negatively (global crisis)
- People in industrial
countries lose jobs
- Culture
- Greater
understanding and
tolerance
- Spread of
traditions and
culture
- Clash of cultures
- Fear that
individual
cultures will blend
into a single
global culture
(loss of cultural
diversity)
- Regional and ethnic tensions (racism)
- For humankind in general
- Fast/better
communication
and exchange
- Technological
progress
- International
cooperation to solve
problems (global
challenges)
- Easier travelling,
wider range of
products
- Diseases can easily spread all
around the globe (pandemia)
- Wider gap between rich and poor
- Politics
- Reduction of wars and
conflicts worldwide
- Peaceful,
borderless world of
shared universal
values, ecological
stability
- Spread of freedom,
democracy and human
rights
- Massive illegal immigration
- Danger of increasing
corrupt governments
- Increasing of
power of global
players (loss of
control)
- International affairs
more important than
national
- Clash between
political systems