Immigration is
another form of globalisation, when families move to a different country they
are taking their culture with them. When people are living in communities that
contain various cultures, they will learn to live side by side. In the future I
intend to move out of Britain and live in another country, mainly because I do
not like the British weather, but this means that I am going to live within a different
culture, and I will be taking my culture to whichever community I move in to. I
am sure I will have many debates with people overseas about politics and
religion, but I predict they will be friendly and fun, not hostile.
Not everyone is
an advocate of globalisation. This website, http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments/multiculturalism_as_a_process_of_globalisation/,
talks
about how multiculturalism is a process of globalisation, but it also talks
about how globalisation is bad for the world. The article claims that
multiculturalism is only a ploy to get people’s sympathy; globalisation’s real
aim is to give the elite power at the top of all governments the ultimate
amount of power. It also claims that countries lose their character by becoming
more similar to each other, and that globalisation is mainly a result of strategic
capitalism, a system that uses individuals unfairly to ensure a maximum profit.
I think globalisation could be a dangerous
thing if it eventually led to a one-world government that happened to be run by
an elite few of corrupt people. It is also unethical to use people to gain
maximum profit. Some would argue that countries allow immigrants to cross their
borders so they can be treated like slaves, to do the hardest manual jobs for
little pay. But I think if these things can be avoided, globalisation is
ultimately a good thing. There are a lot of selfish and greedy people in the
world, so can these bad things realistically be avoided? Times will get worse
before they get better, it may lead to more conflict at first, but once the
dust has settled and differing cultures have integrated, we may see a
completely different civilisation, an improvement on corrupt democracies.
This is a really interesting post. I think it is possible that each culture can keep its own identity while also incorporating others (as a result of immigration).
ReplyDeleteI'm shocked to read the last bit of your post, it is wrong that immigrants come over to the country and are treated like slaves.
Finally, how do you think that we can avoid a world globally round by an elite few of corrupt people?
Yes I agree that cultures can merge, and I think that that's what will happen on a large scale when globalisation continues. It is very bad for country's businesses to employ people from another country just so they can pay them less, this should be made illegal, when a person is legally living in a country they should be given the same treatment as everyone else in the country. I think to avoid a one-world government situation, we will need to have some sort of change in our global politics, we may even have to get rid of democracies all together. Maybe communities can be governed by the people of communities, as long as they all have similar values and adhere to a law system that maintains order. It will still be a certain amount of people in control of different communities, but at least it will not be a few people running the whole world.
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