Globalization and Western imperialism

Globalization=Western Imperialism

Modern science and all the various process that are involved with the modernization process evolved because of the progress made by the western countries and the progress made in the field of science, medicine and the notions held in respect of human rights and liberty. There are several sections of individuals who state that dissatisfaction that people seem to have is that they are troubled with their daily life. But when analyzing we can realize that the actual dissatisfaction of individuals arises forms the modern life that they need and in comparison to that the others around the world lead. The term globalization is used to describe the various changes that have taken place in the social, economical and political scenarios that has brought about change in the current situation.

To explain, globalization is the termed used to describe the technique in which the various far away parts of the world have come into contact with the more developed parts of the world and also the obvious changes brought in it in the geographical locations. It is this change that has even made it possible for us to think of the world as a single global space that is connected by a lot of forces like the technological, economic, social and cultural forces.

It is this basic thought that is propagated by most of the bug theorists. Also Globalization has been referred to be the intensification of world wide social relations that help in linking the various far away parts of the world in such a way that the things that happen in the local market is affected by these changes. (Robertson, 8) But now globalization is most often thought of as global westernization. Several sections of individuals agree to this concept, though people with an optimistic view think of globalization as an excellent contribution made by the western world to civilization. But others think of it as western world dominance. With this view, most of the contemporary capitalist trying to get their best out of it have come up with many rules of trade and business that are not in favor of the poorer section of the society.

Customary rudiments like possession of assets and power are combined nowadays to join the various cultural industries so that they can set up a cultural dependency that is caused because of the economic dependency that is caused by the capitalist system. It cannot be really said as to if the global capitalistic market is actually beneficial or not, but the basic fact is that it is present here and is also here to stay. In today's world where globalization plays a very important role in the structural element of the capitalist market it in a way increases the innate discrimination of the current system actually of the system as discrepancy between the rich and poor grow. Although it can be rightly said that economic imperialism looms remarkably high. Even though there has been great technological progress, still there are those individuals who if not able to keep up with the technological pace shall have no option but to be hard-pressed by the margins of power. A huge increase in the disproportion in capital and possessions, in the present condition where information and knowledge are most important it is necessary that we try our best to reduce our disappointment and apprehension which forms the most important reactions of movements.

Currently the entire concept of globalization is very western in ideology. This westernizing process is still tied up to the concept of capitalism, working to try and broaden the gap that these western economies have created so easily in the terms of economy, sociology and also politically. The main concept of globalization is to try and promote the ideas of the western culture and think of it to be more superior. They seem to provide a sense of control and also a feeling that they know the entire concept. But this does not mean that the direct opposition to any of the eastern or occidental economic design. But still the entire concept is very troubling. But the current concepts and ideas are so enveloping that they seem to come across being of utmost importance to many of the developing countries. When referred to imperialism earlier it was always meant to define an economic, political and military technique to try and destabilize the actual working sovereignty of the country. But now a days the definition seems to have changed and is used to refer to cultural imperialism by way of which machines are used to rapidly expand the communication network to deluge the nations with the western ideology. (Ellwood, 14)

Considering the fact that globalization has been on since many centuries, in the past twenty years the growth has been tremendous and worth noticing as to its growth in intensity, scope and also the way it has made itself be noticeable to the public. It is during this period that it can be said that the entire process of globalization started off. So it becomes essential to actually take notice of the events that took place during this period and the various political actions and reactions. From the Second World War, there has been constant integration in the global economy because of the various events that have actually led to rapid growth of globalization and its social and political distinction. (Watson, 73) In the northern region it was the oil crisis and also the suspension of the dollar convertibility in the year 1971 that brought about the end of the 'long boom period' of the period of post 1945 Keynesian. This also led to the rise of the global markets that in turn kept the market confidence that became a key feature in the various government policies.

At the same time in the southern region, in 1982 when the Mexican government fell because of its foreign debt it started off the post war era during which the import substitution industrialization started off and this ultimately led to long period for most of the developing countries, which was in turn imposed further by the massive foreign debts and also the rise in political influence of the IMF, the World Bank and the international capital markets, with all these three policies actually affecting the development of the domestic markets and also turning towards a strategy which was more export growth oriented. The most crucial change was that of the Fall of the Berlin Wall in the year 1989, that led to the abdominal fall more frequently referred to as the 'transition economies', and it led to a rapid downfall of the Soviet Unions into a market driven economic change. Taking notice at a political level, it was because of these events that we saw two major developments, considering the crisis that ultimately led to the following up of the Third World War, with the Soviet Union left with disoriented state. There were certain distinctive changes in the concept of 'globalization' that led to this perplexity. (Waters, 38)

To mention a few, the first of it was the fact that there was a shift of power from the state and because of the constant global economic changes; it was shifted into the hands of the governments non-ability to be able to manage their economies. This led to a crisis in the entire social democracy. The next observed change was that of the rise of the New Right, in the early 1980's where the market seemed to have a distinct edge over the state and it ultimately led to the formation of a free market concept.

The book written by John Kennedy, ' twilight time' explained about the Americans fearing about the Soviet and their obvious threat to the states and also this helped to think over the prospects and the liberal democracies came up with more global market-based economic models that would suit the Anglo -Saxon capitalism. It was the elision of the 'market democracy' that was epitomized by most of the Western leaders. When considering this at an economic level, this helped to drive the rapid expansion of the trade and investments flow considering that huge portions of the regions in Latin America and Asia have led to export oriented growth strategies and the various countries in the Soviet Union were quickly absorbed into an integrated global economy. (Harris, 53)

This led to globalization becoming a combination of technological, economic, political and cultural change. The changes involved in Globalization also consisted of interlocking institutions developments like both national and international levels. Primarily the existing global structures of the global economic governance were refurbished. Then the World Bank and the IMF also changed their roles, turning quickly away from the Keynesian way of operating to neo-liberalism. A new web of two-pronged, local and worldwide trade and investments agreements trade terminated the entire creation of World Trade Organization in 1995 to bind the entire system in the same position. In the west at National level, wanting to win at the electoral success, the left, with the new market realities turned from the social democracy and changed towards a more gullible receipt of the market as the organizing principle of the entire economy. (Barlow and Clake, 66)

It was in the early 1900's that a very huge distinct change was seen in the internal compromise of the global economic and political management of the various global institutions and also the most string players. This particular model was called 'neo-liberalism' or also the 'Washington Consensus', called so by the economist John Williamson in 1989 in order to explain a ten policy recommendation that was formed keeping in mind the structural changes that would have to be made all over the world. But at the 'end of history' it was the dominance of the neo-liberal modification of globalization that did not last for long. A lot of happenings in the 1990's saw to it that both the ideologies and the theoretical upbringings of the Washington consensus and also its political base of support. It was globalization and the erosion of the national sovereignty that actually gained all the public reaction and the influence and lack of accountability of the global corporations.

It was this movement that went further and led a movement against the global economic governance. Then later in the Asian Crisis of 1997, which was caused because of excessive liberalization of financial markets and also the provoked by the IMF, was one of the most significant events to occur in the neo-liberal theory. But later the Mexico peso crisis that occurred in 1994 and the changes that demolished the market reform in Russia, was on the major causes to bring about doubts in the minds of the citizens. By into the 1900s liberalization was thought of as more a free market situation by many economists like Krugman, Bhagwati and other important practitioners like George Soros. It was the Neo-liberal hubris that actually started off the points of doubt in the minds of many individuals as to the actual problem of the liberalized capital market. (Waters, 37)

Political oppression also increased as the doubts increased. This led to firms having to reduce their number of workers, corporate restructuring, privatization, workers rights being exploited and also a vivid change in the production and supply of the labor movements in both the North and the South region. Moreover, global warming, the inevitable growth and also the constant reduction of resources led to most environmentalist protesting against it and also was seen to as a threat for their trade rules by the WTO. An example is that when four Asian nations questioned the sense of the U.S. Endangered Species Act in which they stated that they should not kill prawns to save the lives of the sea turtles. It was the rapid change of the nation-state and democratic situations that actually ultimately led to state development and also in certain ways even political rights. The level of corporate power that was constantly increasing along with the increase in social inequality has currently left nothing to venture in for. It is structural adjustment programs and also the fastly growing southern marginalisation and the inequality in the society and also some of the political parties in the developing world.

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To think that imperialism is the purposeful attempt of the Western nations to find their hold upon the mass media of the other nations would not be very far from the mark, but how true this is cannot be really judged. (McLuhan, 17) But there are certain obvious rewards that can be gained with this methodology; one of them being that new markets are created for the western products and also that there is more chance for laborers to find work. Also most of the western nations, half changed their perspective from labor to service and information too in the past few couple of years. (Clarkson, 21) Because of this it has become very important to see to the development of information and communication technology. This brings about the need to have economic expansion and also to have constant data and communication flow. On analyzing in this perspective we can see that it is not very difficult to actually these imperialistic ideas into capitalistic ones and also the laws that rule over them. The introduction of the Transnational Corporations (TNC's) was the first new technique introduced as to how to handle the new way of business and by this the business firms would no longer need to think that they couldn't venture beyond their geographic borders. They could venture into any part of the world and also such sort of diverse thoughts allows the concept of globalization to increase with the help of advertisement.

From the time when Western Imperialism was introduced, western globalization has also increased drastically and has also given major drastic results. This has led to the fact that the ideologies that were followed in the western nations like America and England are the ones that needed to be followed by others. Which actually went to state that if an individual wanted to export their product in the United States he would have firstly sell only those products that are in demand in the States and also to be allowed to sell their shall have to be in the good books of the Government of America. But if your product is something that is of great demand in the nation then government can be left behind and only the trade rules need to be followed, like for example oil. As noticed so far the best way to actually keep the government of the United States is happy is to permit them to export as much goods into your own country. This on analysis shall bring to top the fact that it not the western ideas or the products that are actually the cause behind all this, but the ideologies behind all this that go to state that all products need to dumped in to the eastern nations by the western ones. (McBride and Wiseman, 45)

This brings to question ourselves that when we actually asks the individuals in the eastern region if they prefer Taco Bell or MacDonald's, we are actually leaving them with no option but to chose either of them. In certain countries where it is primarily difficult to actually difficult to have any sort of freedom like Nigeria such an option given there would leave them with no option but choose something that was hinder their way of life. Frankly, thinking none of us basically have a carve for hamburgers or French fries but we are forced to consume these as it is made a part of our life by the manufacturer who makes it our vital consumption in our daily life. Most of the people in the East are saying no to the concept of having Westerners, come into their nation and change their land. They know that this change will bring about the degradation of a number of nations. A lot of governing bodies like the World Bank and the IMF even tried to control this development and mould it to fit the standards of the western civilization. When the Canadian Department of Communication conducted a study, they concluded that the information revolution would prevent the national sovereignty of a nation from being eroding and promoted the development of multi-national corporations. (Watson, 72)

It is fact that Globalization actually discomforts a lot of developing countries forcing them to be a part of a group of countries that need to sell goods cheaper than the rest of the others. They are most frequently forced to forget their internal demands in the nation and are forced to slave drive to the western nations. The biggest concern of these nations is when they feel that the other nation has imperialist attitudes. At present there are five different areas of control that suggest the idea of imperialism. They would be efforts to try and control and manipulate their communication and data flow system, and if properly examined globalization at least has an affect to conjure cultural imperialism. The major information that is conveyed between various nations usually is done through TNC's, synchronizing and sustaining control over the various branches of the organization and also the data that is being transmitted, like the raw materials supply, inventory, pricing, labor policies and tax matters. The above are of utmost importance to a nation and it is the TNC's that actually make all the decisions not concerned as to how they would be affecting the citizens in the nations but only bothered about their own priorities, and the worst fact being that the national authorities would know about this decisions. (Barlow and Clake, 66)

The process by which the satellites in the orbit are able to map out the terrain to help us to identify the hidden resources and also the potential physical trouble spots is called as Remote Sensing. Currently this is employed by all military and corporate interest firms to be able to sustain worldwide supremacy and dependence. The various resources like agriculture and the other oceanic occurrence discovered with the help of this technology has been of immense help to developing nations. It would help them to increase their development in a rapid speed and also take advantage of their data without having to waste it on dead end resources. The construction and the access of database are mostly manipulated by the corporate and military for their purpose. (Escobar, 195) Most of the existing databases are used for the purpose of sustaining and supporting the needs of the TNC's. In the database we have customer names, their payroll information, property ownership, credit ratings and also health information.

The above details are the most important information required for global expansion. It is important that we understand and also try and manipulate this information in regard to the market to try and focus on advertising. Most of the Direct Broadcast Satellites which are now very common in most homes just provide to us what they show as advertisement. They give us direct access with very little or even absolutely no interference from the national authority. Most of the images and programs are shown with the circumventing any kind of help from the control or supervision of any national interest. Even though the international community is in dire need of aforementioned permission to programming before broadcasting still the United States has said that this sort of permission given will only lead to more information to be able to freely flow among the individuals and hence may also violate the laws in regards to free speech. A lot of these western governments not only extend control over these slots in space for the satellites to orbit but also allow the TNC's primary, most often exclusive access to all the markets, which in turn allows them to develop their communication among the various branches globally of these concerned corporations. The countries that are not involved in this global transaction by the ways of the sky not only loose out on the fact that they are not in communication with the other countries but also do not have access to the data. It is this control that actually makes the market to be able to exports the products that are used commercially and also to show the western television programs and films as the good life. (Robertson, 8)