Globalization: Bringing The World Together

Globalization: Bringing The World Together

Almost everyone has opinions about globalization and its positive and negative affects on our society and on the world. Every person I know has a slightly different perspective and opinion about the issue. I, too, have thoughts on globalization that often seem to contradict each other. While I understand that there are many dangers and even negative aspects of the globalization of our modern day world, because globalization is a reality that I cannot deny or get away from, I am choosing to focus on the good things that I see globalization doing in our world.

I first had to come to the realization that globalization is no longer a thing prophesied about a future, but that it is the reality that we are living in and that our children will live in someday too. I guess when I stop to consider all of the bad things that are going on in the world today, globalization makes it no where near the top of the list. I consider the fact that the world could be so much worse a benefit to the work of globalization in our times.

As a person who has taken advantage of the advances that globalization has made in travel, I am very grateful for globalization. I am grateful because it has enabled people like me to get to almost anywhere in the world in just over a day. I think this ability to see and experience what is left of foreign cultures is perhaps the greatest benefit of globalization to me personally.

As globalization has improved communication worldwide, I am grateful because of what that means for our increasing ability to improve healthcare and to prevent and fight diseases throughout the world. As we learn to interact with and cooperate with other countries in beneficial ways, the health and life of every human on the earth improves. It is amazing that we are able to work as one force in seeing that infants and chilren do not die of preventable diseases in any country.

More than anything else, globalization has changed my life by allowing me to have an understanding of what is happening in areas outside my own. In some ways globalization has forced me to get outside of my comfort zone and be confronted with issues that are larger than my own. I can no longer live my middle-class, American life isolated to the rest of the world.

I have nothing but globalization to thank for the expanding of my life and for the ability I now have not only to care about the problems of the world, but also to travel and see the world first hand. So I guess that for me, globalization has been a very good thing.