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Globalization Positive/pros contains seeds of a better future for all the world's people economic prosperity and work for developing countries ● business opportunities for industrial countries major improvements in productivity, innovation, creativity general economic prosperity ● ecological stability ● shared universal humanity and shared profits borderless, peaceful world of shared universal values the world is getting smaller world-wide web makes communication easier, cheaper ● traveling becomes easier free trade or rather fair trade? (so developing countries can benefit, too) homogenous and largely commercial culture music, fashion, food, world-wide style culture ● homogenous continents ● ● Negative/cons spread of democracy freedom and human rights ● social goals are being ignored, stand second to financial interests Westernization: gap between rich and poor is widening "survival of the fittest" ● danger to the environment, massive pollution in third-world countries (China, India) ● "outsourcing" of CO2 emissions regional and ethnic tensions about natural resources e.g. clean water ● biological diversity is destroyed erosion of democracy and fair play through increasing power of multinational companies they can no longer be controlled by elected governments ● corruption ● wealth creation has become the essential requirement of globalization - is this a goal in itself? trade barriers still exist: e.g. subsidies in agriculture of rich countries keep developing countries away from the world market ● erosion of national cultures, massive immigration, migration Americanization the introduction of new species on new land masses/continents leads to the extinction of domestic species evolution...