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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Is globalization creating a single language world? by Mohamed Idris

Posted 10 months ago

English can never become the world language, because the international English many of us are proud of speaking is a national language too. We will always find someone who speaks the language better than us. Americans still comment on people like Kissinger and Schwarzenegger because of their accents, even though both speak excellent English. If your English is bad, you do not have a chance. If your English is good, it is described as bookish. The mother tongue is simply inescapable.

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on “A Smarter Planet” by megan abbott

Posted 10 months ago

I’m really glad you posted this article. Not only were the facts utterly intriguing, but it is quite a task to try to sum up exactly what globalization is and how it effects the world into words, and I think the author of this article did an amazingly accurate job. Even though this article is pretty long, I couldn’t keep my eyes off the screen, it is very thought-provoking and it also raises awareness. I really appreciated the positive attitude the author portrays in his stance on globalization and how he describes it as the world getting smarter together, because that ...

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Picture of Globalization by cedward2

Posted 10 months ago

This may sound REALLY dorky, but I read your blog and it made me smile. I was an AFS exchange student and it is totally true that you become an embassador and that it is like creating a web from country to country, a web that ties us all closer together. Im really glad that you posted this and I think it goes along hand in hand with globalization or at least our deffiniton of Globalization.

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Globalization is by Globalization Image Assignment at Dr. Greenlaws FSEM 100

Posted 10 months ago

[...] Clarissa kindly posted our definition of globalization on her blog here. Find or create an image that illustrates this concept well to [...]

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Globalization A-Z by Globalization A-Z – UMW Blogs

Posted 10 months ago

[...] engaging some fascinating topics in a distributed manner through their own blogs. Between this post on the ABCs of Gloablization and this image of “When old meets new” (both of which are reproduced below), you have [...]

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Globalization A-Z by Reverend

Posted 10 months ago

I have to agree with the other commentators, this is an amazing list.

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Globalization A-Z by Annie Durkin

Posted 10 months ago

This is a really cool idea. I’ve thought of some other words that you could potentially use: advances,xenophobia?(maybe, not really sure but it would be an x), rapid, markets, outsourcing, homogenization. Thats all I can think of for now because class is moving on but I’ll let you know if I come up with any others.

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Globalization A-Z by nmoskal

Posted 10 months ago

Really cool idea! Bravo for attempting to do the whole alphabet.

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Will the whole world “flatten out”? by Prof.G

Posted 10 months ago

Does a flat world imply that all countries have the same income?

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on Is globalization creating a single language world? by pgurung

Posted 10 months ago

A relevant comment I have is that I recently watched a documentary about China where they showed school kids having to learn Chinese in schools. Now these kids were not from China, and they were actually from other countries such as the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and other nations around southeast Asia where China was outsourcing. They were learning Chinese just as kids in India may learn English as a class. They were learning it because it they see it as essential in order to succeed in today’s world. My point is that, although English has been the dominant language in ...

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Comments for Culture Shock » Comment on Blogging as a tool of protest by adurkin

Posted 10 months ago

I found this idea and article really interesting. Blogging can both demonstrate and contribute to globalization because it involves the process of sharing ideas over the web for anyone to read. Through the use of blog and technology, it is possible to make social and political reform changes. Technology has enabled us to have endless information at our fingertips. The U.S. government has picked up on this trend. Two examples of this are Obama’s campaign and Intellipedia. During the past election, Obama used text messages and his own website to keep voters updated on his campaign. The U.S. intelligence systems (CIA, ...

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Comments for Culture Shock » Comment on Women and Poverty and a positive effect of Globalization by pgurung

Posted 10 months ago

An important reason as to why women remain marginalized in the social community even now is that the view that women as a gender are the minority is something that has been ingrained in people’s minds. Patriarchal societies date back to the time of Abraham or Moses, even to the time of earliest man (no matter which religion one may believe in). The mindset is the hardest thing to change, and when male-dominated ideology comes exists for such as long time, these thoughts and values become a part of what that society may have been built on. So for many traditionalist ...

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on What is this world coming to? by nmoskal

Posted 10 months ago

I really like the comparison you made between the two definitions. Though we have spent a lot of time talking about both, it was really helpful to see the definitions side by side like that.
I also hadn’t considered some of the questions you listed either. Especially since they affect each other, does the acceleration of one automatically accelerate the other? And also, is there a limit? Hopefully we’ll be able to cover some of these questions in class.

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Comments for Chelsea's rambles » Comment on Globalization by seo blog

Posted 10 months ago

This is a really interesting blog post,I have added your blog to my favourites I really like it,keep up the good work!

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on Pleeeease read this article. by Kelly

Posted 10 months ago

I think this is a pretty interesting article. It’s obviously biased, but it raises good points. I’ve wondered whether globalization is going to lead to one world market, but I had never thought about who would be in control, and what all that power would mean.

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Comments for Chelsea's rambles » Comment on Globalization by mabbott

Posted 10 months ago

I can relate to you in the sense that it is hard to define globalization, precisely, which in turn, makes it hard to have a grasp on the issue. And comparing it to a logarithm makes it a little easier to understand because they are similar in that they are both complex and somewhat convoluted.

p.s. i like your dr. suess quote a lot, i had never seen it before.

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on capitalism pyramid. by Prof.G

Posted 10 months ago

Very interesting! What’s the source?

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on What is this world coming to? by Prof.G

Posted 10 months ago

Great post, Megan. Very thoughtful and thought-provoking. I have some tentative answers to some of your questions, but I think I’ll keep to to myself for now.

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on I HATE GLOBALIZATION by hgmclean

Posted 10 months ago

So, I know I’m not in this freshman seminar so it might seem a little creepy, but I would recommend you read Thoreau, especially Walden, he will commiserate with you. I have a friend who worked in the inner city this summer and he said that a lot of people had empty refrigerators and big screen tvs with PS3s. But we aren’t talking about globalization anymore. Like you or whoever it was earlier said, globalization is the transfer of ideas, that’s at least one positive there. I have never read “The World is Flat” so I have no insight from that ...

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Comments for It's a Small World After All... » Comment on Expert Study: Spain by sheller

Posted 10 months ago

I went to Spain a couple of years back. One of the coolest parts of it though, was actually the diversity in the different regions. As you said there are 17 in all, and I found that each different city I went to was very unique in its own way. This is one of the most interesting things about it I feel. An economic take on this could be the different niches in manufacturing or other economic endeavors that each city holds unique. For instance Toledo, was a huge manufacturer of swords, and cutlery. Segovia by contrast, was more of a ...

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