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Our Changing World

Our Changing World. Globalisation. Globalisation involves shrinking space, time and disappearing borders that link people’s lives more intensely than before.

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Our Changing World

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  1. Our Changing World

  2. Globalisation • Globalisation involves shrinking space, time and disappearing borders that link people’s lives more intensely than before. • As a result of faster and more efficient transport networks and advancing computer technology, the individual nation state is becoming less of a force on the global scene. • Show smartboard globalisation doc

  3. Globalisation • Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization? • Answer: Princess Diana's death • Question: How come?

  4. Answer: • An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky,(check the bottle before you change the spelling), followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles; treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines.This is sent to you by an American, using Bill Gates's technology, and you're probably reading this on your computer, that uses Taiwanese chips, and a •  Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian lorry-drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals.....

  5. yourtv.com.au Homework • Cut out a TV guide for one channel for one day and stick into your book. • Using a key, mark on where each programme is made.

  6. With globalisation... ...it is possible to produce a product anywhere, Using resources from anywhere, By a company located anywhere, To be sold anywhere.

  7. Cultures around the world Are now being influenced by the popular culture of other countries, especially the USA. (eg books, magazines, television, movies, music and fashion)

  8. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/457000/457022/html/default.stm Globalisation BBC Multimedia fact file

  9. Good or bad? • http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/oct/31/globalisation.lewiswilliamson

  10. Sweat shops in Asia • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn8LnEkKfIU NGO perspective 2 mins

  11. Questions • Do UTT Q 1-6 p267

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