GLOBALIZATION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeDPRUceakk&ytsession=UvC6zlRGTb-DF9dCql6IbHHA_T5SnlgAxKfHvdZTkWYcTw2v1jL16kigEuEwfEHL1E6637hjEVfu1Oi8CZrciFZuoYt7JovpjsKN8ENED7L6JJnxHiaiBYJk_Djm0c7EIuA6PCpPALePNeDn_Ev74PRUXAoE-RqKKeON3bvRc_0NM0-m2md6IxYQThhtFa42mGN_g4wYn8tb4b4M4xQt_iXqQBufvlSjEJoNA26k7d_LQt-DLhD94guXGttyq5GICBB2DTUPEvl27vrGZ_lj_1rvkOmLv_Ypl2nADoCwRj8#

http://www.hubertlerch.com/classes/PS2211/Europe_and_Globalization.html

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF GLOBALIZATION

Globalization is an historical process that began with the first movement of people out of Africa into other parts of the world. Traveling short, then longer distances, migrants, merchants, and others have always taken their ideas, customs, and products into new lands. The melding, borrowing, and adaptation of outside influences can be found in many areas of human life.
Research states that globalization started before slavery.

http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/sites/default/files/flash/about/globalization/PART1-1/Presentation_Files/index.html
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/sites/default/files/flash/about/globalization/PART2-2/Presentation_Files/index.html

WHAT IS FAIR TRADE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_h99DDa39E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhQJrz-aDfI

WHAT IS FREE TRADE?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBS6vWedd8A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=8BK0XIm0DXE&feature=endscreen

FREE TRADE OR FAIR TRADE?

http://www.encyclopedia.com/video/swdGTG4PzNY-free-trade-vs-fair-trade.aspxhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVKe9EX4txIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE6BkvMLfXghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebp84kRleO0

Colonialism

It has long been argued that free trade is a form of colonialism or imperialism.

Ok, so in my Honors World Literature class, I chose to do research on globalization.  You would be amazed at how much one doesn't know about the world around them.  I first looked up the word "globalization", and I can get travel, goods, service, culture, etc.  We hear on the news about free trade agreements and fair trade negotiations and think nothing of what they are talking about.  Until one does some research.  There is a big controversy over free trade verses fair trade and I must say that it is a bit confusing.  So I have proposed that if you can shed some light on this "most controversial" issue, I would be more then honored to get a broarder understanding.  What I am getting is that the U.S. has interest in free trade BUT it is not in our best interest to have freetradebecause other countries are not playing FAIR.  And because one of the biggest countries have alot of power over trade, Tthe U.S. is just continuing to just keep talking and not putting any action behind all the taking.  I get that fair trade is for the poeple but it is not as profitable because there are regulation to follow. OK, so what is really going on?  Share your thoughts and knowledge with me!!!!!