UNIT 4To What Extent

Should We Respond To Globalization?

To what extent does globalization……empower individuals and groups?

CHAPTER 16

MIGRATION & TECHNOLOGY: Do you have friends or family that live in another country?

If so that is a direct result of technology in the global world.

People can be citizens of more than one country at at time, this makes them transnationals.

There are also whole communities that maintain a link to a previous country, they are transnational communities.

The ability to be a transnational citizen or part of a transnational community is a result (positive) of

globalization.

CHAPTER 17

FOOD SUPPLY & GMOS

To compete on a global market, researchers in North America created genetically modified food.

We are able to take desirable genes (ex. resist frost) from one plant or animal and put it in another.

This creates a “better” product and increases supply (more plants and animals survive to maturity)

The long term effects of eating these products is not yet known. The European Union has banned all GM products from their countries.

Considering competition and the amount of food required in the globalized world, is this method okay?

PANDEMICS

Due to the population size of the world, pandemics (major diseases/viruses) easily spread.

You could get sick in Mexico, fly home before you feel it, and infect your family all within hours. This is only possible in the global age.

Flu, AIDS, Influenza, SARS, etc. Are examples. The Plague (Black Death) in the 1300’s was a serious pandemic (killed 33% of Europe’s population).

Can globalization help fight pandemics? How?

WATER

Water - essential to life.

Needs to be “clean”

Each Canadian uses 350 litres of water a every day. In Gambia, Africa, each person only has 4.5 litres of water each day!

More than 1 billion people lack access to clean water!

How can globalization help this situation? What dimensions are most likely to be used?

3 different positions about citizens’ civic responsibilities in relation to promoting democracy:

Democracy through peaceful evolution –build social support for liberal democracy by acting within the laws

Democracy through revolutionary means –through popular strikes, resistance, and protest.

Opposition to democracy – some believe opposing democracy is a civic responsibility. For reasons of culture and tradition, these people believe that those of a particular age, gender, or class have more right to rule

CHAPTER 18CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Globalization has given Canada the opportunity and tools to promote Canadian culture and values internationally.

Foreign Affairs Canada operates in 180 countries providing services to Canadian individuals and businesses, and representing Canada in international forums.

CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) is involved in about 100 countries, and its goal is “to reduce poverty and contribute to a more secure, equitable, and prosperous world.”

OUR GOVERNMENT & THE WORLD

Responsibility to Protect - to hold governments accountable for how they treat their people, and to intervene if necessary to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

Responsibility to Deny - to prevent terrorists and irresponsible governments from acquiring weapons of mass destruction that could destroy millions of innocent people.

Responsibility to Respect - to build lives of freedom for all people, based on the fundamental human rights of every man, woman, and child on earth.

Responsibility to Build - to make sure our economic assistance programs provide the tools that ordinary people really need to get on with their own development.

Responsibility to the Future - to ensure sustainable development for future generations through better management of global public goods.

OUR GOVERNMENT & OTHER GOVERNMENTS

CONSUMER ACTIVISM:We “vote” with our dollar!

We can participate in boycotts. We can also participate in buycotts; which is the opposite of boycott, in which you only buy products of a certain type (ex. Locally grown vegetables).

Do you as a Canadian citizen, have a responsibility to purchase Canadian products and services?

CHAPTER 19OUR RESPONSIBILITIES

How can you influence the government?Working as a civil servant (government employee)Running for an electionInfluencing you government representativesGovernments can also influence each other.Ex. During Apartheid some countries stopped

trading with South Africa until they changed their treatment of black people.

We have many opportunities every day to make changes. We need only to stop and think about them. Every action has a reaction!