How has globalization affected my country of origin?
By
Wang-Tai Lee
There were two kinds of international movement after World War II. Moscow was the heart of the "communism-international". Washington DC was the super power of world's free market. When Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, globalization along with capitalism value flew to all over the world. Because my home country, Taiwan, has had close relationship with USA & Japan, our economic system has globalized since the early 1970s. Actually the process of globalization has had some positive and negative effect in Taiwanese society.
We have taken great advantage of globalization. It has caused economic growth and has created jobs, many traditional farm villages have become prosperous modern cities; also it has created national and local wealth. Furthermore there have been many political and social advantages. Those ideas like social justice, democracy, rule of law, labor union, consumer protection, environment protection, etc., have been brought into Taiwan gradually by the four winds of globalization.
Naturally, everything has its downside. Political and social chaos came afterward. First, the economic growth created a great deal of middle class then it caused the demand of political reform, and that came along with serious conflicts in some issues. As a result , traffic volume increased, cities became crowded, air and water were polluted. During economic quick boom from 1970 ¡V 1990, Taiwaness became rich, and over consuming was the main flow of the current, and waste and greed flooded everywhere.
Thomas Friedman stated in his latest famous book " World is Flat" that globalization made the world from round into flat. Money, people, goods and services can come in and go out from one country to another country freely. I believed that even though the road of globalization is flattened, it still has many bumps, the space among the bumps are for the local cultural to survive. Therefore, I hope this bumping road will never have to be paved which can keep this world better.
There were two kinds of international movement after World War II. Moscow was the heart of the "communism-international". Washington DC was the super power of world's free market. When Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, globalization along with capitalism value flew to all over the world. Because my home country, Taiwan, has had close relationship with USA & Japan, our economic system has globalized since the early 1970s. Actually the process of globalization has had some positive and negative effect in Taiwanese society.
We have taken great advantage of globalization. It has caused economic growth and has created jobs, many traditional farm villages have become prosperous modern cities; also it has created national and local wealth. Furthermore there have been many political and social advantages. Those ideas like social justice, democracy, rule of law, labor union, consumer protection, environment protection, etc., have been brought into Taiwan gradually by the four winds of globalization.
Naturally, everything has its downside. Political and social chaos came afterward. First, the economic growth created a great deal of middle class then it caused the demand of political reform, and that came along with serious conflicts in some issues. As a result , traffic volume increased, cities became crowded, air and water were polluted. During economic quick boom from 1970 ¡V 1990, Taiwaness became rich, and over consuming was the main flow of the current, and waste and greed flooded everywhere.
Thomas Friedman stated in his latest famous book " World is Flat" that globalization made the world from round into flat. Money, people, goods and services can come in and go out from one country to another country freely. I believed that even though the road of globalization is flattened, it still has many bumps, the space among the bumps are for the local cultural to survive. Therefore, I hope this bumping road will never have to be paved which can keep this world better.
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