DBQ On Globalization

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Globalization DBQ

Globalization is like a double bladed sword. You can have the advantage on the battlefield or you can have the disadvantage depending on how you use it and what moves you take with it. Globalization has it negatives and positives but do the positives make up for the negatives. The positives do not make up for the negatives same thing with the double bladed sword. Its positives do not make up for its negatives because at the end you have a higher chance to be hit with the double bladed sword. Globalization is like this because you go to a vacation to Bolivia you can choose to have Mcdonalds in Bolivia or you can have some traditional food from that country because you already have Mcdonald's in US. This Mcdonalds is highly going to make more open and sooner or later you go back to Bolivia for vacation again and see that there is Mcdonalds everywhere and not that much traditional food.
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There has been a lot of cultural diffusion around the world.”The current era of globalization, with its unpreceded acceleration and intensification in the global flows of capital,labour, and information, is having a homogenizing influence on local culture”. (Document A). It also states “Societies and communities which are exposed to rapid modernisation based on models imported from outside and not adapted to their context”. (Document A). So it's shown and proven that globalization is affecting local culture that can soon be lost be use of it. Which means we did not only lose that culture but its history,artifacts,language and even