UNIT 4 To What Extent Should We Respond To Globalization?

1. UNIT 4To What Extent Should We Respond To Globalization?

2. Chapter 16 • To what extent does globalization… • …empower individuals and groups?

4. Chapter 17 • 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.

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. Chapter 18civic responsibilities • 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

9. Our government & the world • 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.”

10. Our government & other governments • 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.

11. Chapter 19our responsibilities • 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?

12. How can you influence the government? • Working as a civil servant (government employee) • Running for an election • Influencing you government representatives • Governments 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!