Globalisation - Christopher XII A6 / 09

Globalisation is a term used by people to describe the increasing dependence of people and countries around the world. This process has increased quickly in the last years due to rapid advancement in technology. Globalisation creates new problems and challenges such as conflicts and poverty. As we know today it has created many negative impacts to our country and its people. Many of it is still a huge problem for us.

But globalisation also bring good things to us. The good side of globalisation is the efficiencies and opportunities in the open market. Business can communicate efficiently and effectively with their partners, suppliers, and customers and manage better their supplies, inventories, and distribution network. Local producers can sell their products in distant markets with the same ease and speed as in their home country. This will shape bigger markets to accommodate all the economic connection. In these times, there are online shops that can help you shop from your own home, that is one of the positive examples of globalization in our country.

                The bad thing about globalisation is that is uses resources more quickly. Not just renewable resources, but also the limited resources like oil and coal. It also contributed to pollution and global warming. More factories are built to meet the consumer’s demand. New machineries are built to increase the efficiency of producing goods. The first case of this was the industrial revolution. Factories are producing at a much faster rate than before, and it can empty the resources if we are not prepared. Beside that, prices are increasing because of the monopoly created by the big companies. These companies can sell their products at a much different scale than their competitor and this is allowed because of globalisation.

What we need to do, particularly to anticipate the bad things that globalisation creates, it that we must keep learning. Learning is not just studying in school, you can also learn from your family, friends, and community. By learning you are forming your attitude and gaining values. These attitudes and values that you received will prepare you to face with globalisation. With our gained knowledge we can improve the effects of globalisation around us in a positive way, and identify negative effects from it and keep them to minimum. at the present time, globalisation has made us easier to share and gain knowledge. Internet has made us easier to exchange knowledge, and yet we are still rarely making use of the internet fully.

In ten or twenty years from now there will be new things, innovations that will further push globalisation into new directions. The bad thing about advancement in technology is society will rely more on technologies than on human. Soon human interaction can be replaced with robots and screens that looks like us. Advanced technologies like this will create new cultures, and we have to be able to adapt to it. That means schools and education will also have to be improved. We need to be prepared for the upcoming changes, and it must be started now.

 The easiest thing we can do to deal with globalisation is to understand what globalisation really is. By understanding the real meaning of globalisation and the effects of it we can start to look for the problems that may appear and face it. Dealing with the problems can be started at a small scale, for example family. Parents have prepared us for the future, but we have to keep learning and learning to further steady our principle and concept idea about this world and the globalisation that affects it. The bad effects of globalisation around us can be lessen or weaken throughout problem-solving abilities what we obtained during our education and learning times.

I as a student must be able to study these effects of globalisation in the future. Problems like food, economy, and industry will change me and force me to adapt. I want to be able to adapt to these changes and find a way out for the difficulties that I may encounter ahead. In order to do that, to see the changes and prepare, I need to be well prepared. Right now, I’m studying many things in school that may not be useful later, but these lessons shape my mind, how I think about a problem. The process of learning to achieve something is what made me believe that everything needs time. Just like globalisation that can’t happen suddenly, and the bad things it brings that can’t arrive instantly, I still have time to learn and improve what globalisation really gives to us in the future.