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Globalisation
/ Economic Equality 
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Issue:
What
is Globalisation and how does it effect me?
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Please explain?
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"We
see very little reflection of the personal experience of globalization by ordinary
people around the world. We see the joy but not the misery. This is an important
omission, because it is the people's personal experience of the phenomenon that
really counts. Not just for the poor, but for all of us. In the end, we all
have to take globalization personally."by Anita Roddick
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MYTH:
Democracy + capitalism go hand in hand.
FACT:
By definition, design and practice capitalism is the system that concentrates
economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of many.
MYTH:
Globalisation will end poverty.
FACT:
Economic globalisation creates wealth, but only
for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global
scale technology and financial activity.
MYTH:
Globalisation will end world hunger..
FACT:
The globalisation of agriculture has failed to
address the world hunger crisis, seeing in the last 2 decades the total amount
of food in the world increase, but so has hunger.
MYTH:
Globalisation
is good for the environment.
FACT:
Economic Globalisation does not produce wealth, save for a small percentage
of people. The wealth that is produced, is rarely spent on environmental programs.
FACT:
To call what is essentially a collection of rules 'inevitable', is designed
to make everyone feel nothing can be done about it. But non of it is inevitable.
MYTH:
Economic Globalisation is Inevitable.
