Is globalization good or bad?

I shall answer this question in an unoriginal way. It is either good or bad, depending on how it is used. If you come to think of it, most things and events have their own light and dark sides that we can take into consideration and emphasize if we choose to take a side. As to globalization, it is good if used for the betterment of the world. Betterment in the sense that the whole world will improve and rise in the same rate, no one nation will lead and conquer all the small others. Globalization can be seen as bad if used to discriminate developing countries and to gather power to monopolize the world.

A history of globalization is very similar to the history of the world but it has a very noticeable difference. The former happened exponentially faster than the latter. This can be overwhelming since there are adjustments to be done and preparations to take care of. It may have started off as an American phenomenon but now that everyone in the world and already know of it, it may not be long before the whole planet is under this phenomenon already. Some countries needed work but through time, and with help from the rest of the world, everyone will be “globalized”. When? We can not easily know but we can predict and look forward to it.

In my opinion, globalization is a new way of looking at the world. It may seem as if it is just another name for imperialism, colonialism, modernism or capitalism. It may be. But will we let it be? That is the question. Things happen if we let it happen. Globalization is the time to be smarter and more aware of the world so that we will not be taken advantage of.