It was the anti-globalization movement that really put globalization on the map.
As a word it has existed since the 1960s, but the protests against this
allegedly new process, which its opponents condemn as a way of ordering people's
lives, brought globalization out of the financial and academic worlds and into
everyday current affairs. In the late 1980s and early 1990s,
the business model called the "globalize" financial market came to be seen as an
entity that could have more than just an economic impact on the parts of the
world it touched. Globalization came to be seen as more than simply a way of
doing business, or running financial markets--it became a process. From then on
the word took on a life of its own. So how does the globalize
market work? It is modern communications that make it possible; for the British
service sector to deal with its customers through a call centre in India, or for
a sportswear (运动服) manufacturer to design its products in Europe, make them in
southeast Asia and sell them in north America. But this is
where the anti-globalization side gets stuck in (关注). If these practices replace
domestic economic life with an economy that is heavily influenced or controlled
from overseas. Then the creation of a globalize economic model and the process
of globalization can also be seen as a surrender of power to the corporations,
or a means of keeping poorer nations in their place. Not
everyone agrees that globalization is necessarily evil, or that globalize
corporations are running the lives of individuals or are more powerful than
nations. Some say that the spread of globalization, free markets and free trade
into the developing world is the best way to beat poverty the only problem is
that free markets and free trade do not yet truly exist.
Globalization can be seen as a positive, negative or even marginal process. And
regardless of whether it works for good or ill, globalization's exact meaning
will continue to be the subject of debate among those who oppose, support or
simply observe it.
单选题
Globalization is a term used only in the financial and academic worlds.