All of us had an opportunity to witness ugly scenes during the recent G-8 meeting when anti-globalists tried to interrupt its. Usually, their struggle against Globalization takes grotesque forms such as fighting police, firing it bonfires, and crashing stores’ windows. They claim that it is their response to Globalization which has led to exploitation of and suffering among people in the developing countries. They believe that the broken window in the McDonald’s in North America or Europe could help these people. It is difficult for me to catch the connection between those different issues. But maybe I do not understand something important which kept me from participation in this noble social movement. To answer this question we should analyze the nature of Globalization, and understand the negative and positive features which it brigs in our life.
From scientific point of view, the nature of Globalization is absolutely clear and exists in good correspondence with mutual physical laws with respect to sociology – any system without outer influences tends to reach mean level of all possible properties inside itself. From human history, we know that people in all times tried to make connections, to cooperate with habitats of different corners of the World. For example, in former days, the most successful merchants organized constant supply of different exotic goods from India to Europe, and everybody was happy to use the results of their activities. It is also clear that in our time when easy communications between different countries are possible any company would try to take advantage of world labor market. Recently it has become usual practice that big companies are moving their facilities to the East, China for example.
As any complex matter, this process has negative features. The addicts of anti-globalism theory try to prove that due to Globalisation, international companies are gaining possibility to rob “poor” countries when they buy natural resources at low prices and sell back goods from these same resources for high prices. It is inhuman and should be prohibited. We also know that salaries for the same job at developing countries are much less compared with those in developed countries. Worries exist that this process may destroy national cultural identities or local cultures. People can buy the same hamburger everywhere around the World; run-on the youth are listening the same music and prefer the same clothes fashion, and it is serious.
But we can find a lot of positive features which Globalization is bringing too. Maybe the most important thing is that it is the only one real possibility for developing countries to participate in World Market. As a result they are gaining new technologies, new factories are growing in these countries; educational level of their population is growing, too. It leads to the creation of national intelligence and improvement in society in general, although this road doesn’t promise to be easy. Due to this process many young people have had the opportunity to achieve there own high targets. Many multinational companies such as Microsoft use in their R&D departments people educated elsewhere around the world. Science has become a really international issue due to it.
This short analysis demonstrated that Globalization is a very complex, controversial, but objective event of our current life. When I see fighting of anti-globalists with police, I have strange feeling that I head about something similar before. Maybe it reminds me of Luddits who tried to destroy steam-machines to prevent poor people from loosing their job places. I have a feeling that intentionally or unintentionally they try to do the same – to struggle against unavoidable objective things of our life. We should agree that they formulated very important questions, but their approach to its resolution is absolutely wrong. – They must fight not to stop progress but elaborate approaches on how to use Globalization event for the benefit of poor countries and theirs population. History of developed countries has proved that all questions concerning exploitation and national authenticity may be solved. And let’s not forget that not only multinational corporations but also population of these countries with all their experience of struggling human rights and fighting for environment will participate in Globalization, too.
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