JuliaaKh_Global

Your shirt was made in Mexico and your shoes in China. Your CD player comes from Japan. You can travel to Moscow and eat a Big Mac there and you can watch an American film in Rome. Today **goods** are made and sold all over the world, thanks to globalization.

In its turn **globalization** is the process of international integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. In spite of it, Globalization is deeply controversial. On the one hand it gives a number of advantages. The main one is an opportunity to get acquainted with cultures of different nations. Also proponents of this phenomenon consider it as a variety of choice for consumers. A further point to consider would be an opportunity for poor countries and their citizens to develop economically and raise their standards of living.

On the other hand there are a lot drawbacks. The most important one is creation of an unfettered international free market has benefited multinational corporations in the Western world at the expense of local enterprises, local cultures, and common people. Besides globalization causes a lot of environmental problems. One more disadvantage might be that it destroys cultural identity, e.g. Europeans usually try to impose their customs and traditions on Asian people. One of the thing, on which globalization influences is city. Every city has changes on its own way. What about our city, we have following changes. You know Kalmyks used to have a great number of livestock before. Elista was like a village almost 30 years ago, today it doesn't give way to other cities. Architecture is developing. From year to year, we have more and more beautiful buildings, such as Temple, Pagoda of seven days, the Palmov's museum and different cultural buildings. Besides we can notice the dwelling-house constructing. That's why we have 2 new districts.Due to architecture Elista's become spiritual center of buddhism. A lot of tourists come from different places. That is, there is developing the tourism. In addition, a lot of foreign guests study in our university. Of course, I can't help saying about economical development. For the latest years there are a lot of shopping malls. I think that all changes occured and occur because of globalization. It's great, but...   One more thing being consequence of globalization is language. English is an international language. As any phenomenon, this one has a lot of opinions both as negative or positive. What about advantages, the most important one is that it makes easier to communicate and talk to each other, because everybody learn this language. You can speak English in every country and everybody understand you, in addition you have a lot of friends abroad. Another point to consider would be that English is the language of important international negotiations between different countries. It helps people to carry on it and to find compromises for solution of this problem. Surely, it is good to have and to know international language, but we must not forget about our native language. It's very important point to consider. Every culture is peculiar unlike the others. Further reason might be that without traditions and culture people can lose their origin, history significance. To sum up, I'd like to say that globalization is very rough phenomenon.Nobody can say that it's good or bad for us. Everybody has his own opinion and the truth.

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