Globalization

Ken Sumida

First of all, this passage had been written before we read the text in our class. So, this content overlapped with the text we have, I’m afraid.

Nowadays it is said that the current world is “Globalization.” Is it true? Once you go to a supermarket, you’ll be able to figure out a meaning of “Globalization.” A myriad of stuff or products are put on a shelf. For example, a mango imported from Taiwan, a comfortable T-shirt made in China and a brilliant tastes bottles of wine comes from France, almost of them are transferred in the world. Additionally, we can quickly obtain information about the world via media like the Internet, TV, magazines and so on. Therefore, arguably, the current world is “Globalization.”

Is my description about “Globalization” sufficient? Of course, not!! In my speculation, an impact of “Globalization” may be incorporated into our daily lives. Sometimes the phenomena are explicit and other times they are implicit. So from now on, I’d like to illustrate the impact of “Globalization” by focusing on sports contexts.

Considering a famous golf player, Tiger Woods, an American sports product company, Nike has pumped plentiful money into his endorsement. As a result, no matter when he has been covered with any visual media, the Internet, TV, a newspaper and so on, we can always see the Nike logo. A person has been fascinated with his skillful and graceful plays and simultaneously shaped an affirmative attitude toward Nike! It is reasonable that people purchase a Nike cap or a Nike golf shirt in order to imitate Tiger Woods. However, at the moment, we should consider where they are commodified or produced. In fact lots of frail labour living in the Third World has done. In a sense, a multinational corporation like Nike exploits them or their manpower resources. Plus, we maybe contribute to their vicious dealings by depending greatly on their products. I conjecture “Globalization” has differentiated people into the exploit and the exploited. Ironically, although we have greatly had effort to enrich our daily life, this makes the world “Globalization.” Consequently, “Globalization” has resulted in these categories emerging abundant countries and vulnerable countries, I think.