Academic Discussion and Writing Has globalization gone too far, or is its progression beneficial to the global community?

Question   Has globalization gone too far, or is its progression beneficial to the global community?

 

 

☆Let’s think

1.        What is globalization?

2.        When did it start?

3.        What are the negative effects of globalization?

 

 

☆Sample Response

Globalization has intrinsically been bad to most people on the earth. It is the economic side of colonialism of Global South by the West. The non-Western countries that produce raw materials have been exploited by the Western countries for 5 hundred years since the Age of Discovery started. It has made the countries in Africa, Asia, and Laten America poor while the colonizers prospered. People other than the ruling class in poor countries have suffered from enslavement. It is true that the development of transportation and communication combined with technological breakthroughs have made a number of the developing countries wealthier than before, but people in many countries, especially those in mineral-rich countries like Congo and Bolivia, still suffer from deprivation and violence. People or countries that resist have been punished by colonizers, with the most recent case like Palestine. All in all, globalization has been evil in nature from its inception. The silver line would be that the power-balance between Global South and Global North has started changing since the Ukraine War, and the birth of BRICS Plus has tipped it recently and the countries with natural resources now have their own economic self-determination. (194 words)

 

 

☆Sample Response Structures

Sample A

【Advantages of spending money on scientific research】

【Advantages of spending money on training programs of teachers】

【Your choice】

 

Sample B

【Advantage 1】

【Advantage 2】

【Counterargument-treatment: The reason why the advantages of the other choice does not matter】

 

 

Your Sample Essay Structure

【Thesis = Outline】

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【Conclusion = Wrap-up】

 

 

Write your response in 10 minutes. Show each other your responses. Write down questions or suggestions to each other’s response.

 

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