MGCR 382 Lecture 1: Introduction to Globalization
18 Sep 2015
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Mgcr382 - lecture 1 - introduction to globalization. The widening set of interdependent relationships (economic/cultural/political/technological dimensions) among people from different parts of a world that is divided into nations. Relationship between local languages and english (small businesses in local languages while big business and trade in english) Films (hollywood/bollywood/nollywood) dispersion of us/india/nigeria culture everywhere in the world. Availability of different foods (sushis available in europe) Music (standardization of music with mtv vs diffusion of foreign music eg : k- Containerization has made shipping much cheaper (it divided by half the costs of shipping) and efficient. The first ever ship who used this method had 58 containers now one ship can have up to 7000 containers. The dock workers who eventually got laid off due to the improvement of efficiency. Eg: tanzania : in 1985 there was 1 landline per 200 people and in. 2011: 1 landine per 100 people but 50 mobile phones per 100 people.
