Hello, citizens of Graded or otherwise. Today my humanities class had a Socratic Seminar about Globalization. There are many people against globalization. As you may know, I am not one of them. I am totally (95%) for globalization.
A reason I am pro-globalization is because of an episode of 30 Days. In that episode, an American's job was outsourced to India. While he was in India he worked at a call center, which payed surprisingly well, and was outsourced. This job that doesn't pay well in the US payed great there. This gives Indians more jobs that they need more than Americans. Americans are worried about losing their job and moving into an apartment, but Indians are getting jobs and they live in huts practically.They obviously need the jobs more.
One thing that came up in the discussion was the question "What would the world be like without globalization?" Everyone answered with statements like "I wouldn't have this..." or "I wouldn't be here", but I answered the question differently. I didn't say what it would be like without globalization, I pointed out that there couldn't not be globalization. Before the discovery of the Americas, before countries were this populated, before electricity, etc. countries wanted more land. So they sent out explorers to find more land. Of course, humans weren't all in one spot. And the explorers wouldn't just happen to never look in the spot without other people. So eventually, the expeditions arrived at places with people already inhabiting it. The expedition groups obviously wouldn't be able to fight them, they were too outnumbered, so they communicated with the natives. They befriended them, and discovered goods that they didn't have in their home country. They would trade something valuable for it, and take it back to their land. This caused several trade routs to different countries so they could get this good. This started globalization. It was inevitable.
The final reason globalization is good has to do with the question "What would the world be like without globalization?". Many people said they wouldn't be here. But, without globalization, there would be no here. Graded was caused by globalization. If it was possible to not have globalization, and there wasn't, there would be no use to have an American school in São Paulo. no one would go there, because no one would know what the English language was. No where would need an international school, because there is no international anything. Graded wouldn't be there, and it would not even exist.
I hope that you now know that globalization is not a negative thing and that it was unavoidable. The world would not be how it is now if it there was none of it. I wouldn't have my favorite spice ( D: ) because the company wouldn't have the pepper. Sure, there are downsides, but ultimately the positive thing outweigh them.
