Examples of globalization in the following topics:
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- While proponents argue globalization is beneficial to economic growth, opponents argue that it contributes to global inequality.
- Some research indicates positives trends as the world has become more globalized, though it is unclear if these trends are directly linked to globalization.
- Those opposed to globalization view one or more globalizing processes as detrimental to social well-being on a global or local scale.
- Globalization is seen by these proponents as the beneficial spread of liberty and capitalism.
- Anti-globalization, or counter-globalization, consists of a number of criticisms of globalization, but can be generally described as a criticism of the globalization of corporate capitalism.
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- Further, environmental challenges such as global warming, cross-boundary water and air pollution, and over-fishing of the ocean are linked with globalization.
- Academic literature commonly subdivides globalization into three major areas: economic globalization, cultural globalization, and political globalization.
- Multiple anti-globalization movements have emerged out of this concern, protesting against globalization and giving new momentum to the defense of local uniqueness, individuality, and identity.
- In general, globalization may ultimately reduce the importance of nation states.
- As a response to globalization, some countries have embraced isolationist policies.
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- Globalization is seen by these proponents as the beneficial spread of liberty and capitalism.
- The diffusion of certain cuisines such as American fast food chains is a visible aspect of cultural globalization: the two most successful global food and beverage outlets, McDonald's and Starbucks, are American companies often cited as examples of globalization, with over 32,000 and 18,000 locations operating worldwide, respectively, as of 2008.
- Some critics of globalization argue that it harms the diversity of cultures.
- In this way, globalization can contribute to the alienation of individuals from their traditions.
- While scholarly opinion typically states that globalization and Americanization are different phenomena, they are inherently linked.
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- The Bush administration was often criticized for discounting the human influence on global warming and refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol.
- Cooney is now known to have edited government climate reports in order to minimize the findings of scientific sources tying greenhouse gas emissions to global warming.
- Input from the business lobby group Global Climate Coalition was also a factor.
- In May of 2006, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) allegedly blocked release of a report that suggested global warming had been a contributor to the frequency and strength of hurricanes in recent years.
- Throughout his presidency, President Bush consistently noted global warming as a serious problem but asserted there is a "debate over whether it's manmade or naturally caused."
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- The 2008 global financial crisis was caused by widespread corporate fraud and risky loans and resulted in foreclosures, bank bailouts, and a global recession.
- The 2007–2012 global financial crisis, also known as the 2008 financial crisis, is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- The crisis played a significant role in the failure of key businesses, with declines in consumer wealth estimated in trillions of US dollars, and a downturn in economic activity leading to the 2008–2012 global recession and contributing to the European sovereign-debt crisis.
- The bursting of the U.S. housing bubble, which peaked in 2007, caused the values of securities tied to U.S. real estate pricing to plummet, damaging financial institutions globally.
- Questions regarding bank solvency, declines in credit availability, and damaged investor confidence had an impact on global stock markets, where securities suffered large losses during 2008 and early 2009.
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- The Seven Years War was a global military war involved most of the great global powers of the time, which affected European colonies.
- The Seven Years War was a global military war between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time and affecting Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines (.
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- World War II had served to enhance U.S. global power.
- During the war, the U.S. had built up a strong industrial and technological infrastructure that had greatly advanced its military strength into a primary position on the global stage.
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- After
the war ended, however, the global economy began to decline.
- Yet a more severe recession hit the United States in 1920 and
1921 when the global economy as a whole fell sharply.
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- New France and New Netherlands were modest colonial holdings in the northeast of the continent, but these colonies’ thriving fur trade and alliances with indigenous peoples helped to create the foundation for later shifts in the global balance of power.
- This age of exploration and the subsequent creation of an Atlantic World marked the earliest phase of globalization, in which previously isolated groups—Africans, Native Americans, and Europeans—first came into contact with each other, sometimes with disastrous results.