Migration

UNIVERSIDAD LATINOAMERICANA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGIA
School of Education
Professor Carlos Tánchez Newspaper Contribution: Globalization II Quarter, 2010
Student: Laura Elizondo Clachar.


Group: English IV
Task: Write a cause and effect essay on the causes and effects of globalization.
Globalization is a process where all the countries of the world adopt the same traditions, culture, food, language, religion, technology and others. For example, football makes the whole world get together every four years, to enjoy the World Cup. Globalization has some causes and effects; Some of them are migration, international bussiness and economy. Everything can seems very positive but globalization also has some negative effects such as: lack of identity, pollution and capitalism.
First of all, the principal cause is migration. People migrate to other countries, trying to change their lifestyle for a better one. To look for better jobs, better salaries, houses and more. People migrate to other countries different than their homecountry to persue their education, to learn other languages with native speakers of the language that they want to learn. Also international bussiness help the globalization process, because they look for new customers and a new market. Since the society is always waiting for new technologies, international companies often move to other countries. Economy is another cause of globalization; commerce is always trying to expand their power, usually coming from developed countries such as: China and The United States of America. This developed countries sell millions of products to other countries, improving their economy.
However, globalization has some negative effects too. The lack of identity is one of them, for example, in Costa Rica people love to eat pizza which is not Costarican, they love Macdonal’s and hamburguers that came from North America. Sushi, the new trend, came from Japan, but when we talk about eating “gallo pinto” which is a typical costarican dish people get bored; instead of feeling identify with the national things. Pollution is the worst effect of gobalization; the big metropolis, many cars, people buying things that they don’t need, people. The big companies compete about who sells the most, about being the best, but they are the worst destroying the environment. People usually don’t know how to use natural resources in a resonable way. Capitalism, exchanging products with other countries, adopting their tradittions instead of using what our country produces, and our own traditions.
Globalization is a process that has several causes, and effects such as: migration, international bussiness and economy; which is good because we get to know other countries, culture, languages and more. Globalization also has negative effects such as: lack of identity, pollution and capitalism. For example, in Costa Rica, people adopt traditions, food, and culture coming from developed countries losing the costarican identity. Globalization made the world better in some way, because people became friendlier to share with people from other countries, decreasing the racism, but also needs to be controled to avoid the negative effects.