"Innovation”

I found this video very interesting. It’s about, when we are children and get an idea we immediately try it out without hesitation, but as we grow older, we start being insecure about our ideas and don’t believe in ourselves. We have to think back like when we were kids. 

"Tolerance" 

This tuesday we had about tolerance in our "globalization course"

I especially liked 1 thing about the lessons, that would like to share. We played a little Spider Web game.

Us students from Denmark were suppose to write down the single most single most significant culture
chock (positive or negative) we expected when going abroad next year. The Foreign students had to
write down the single most significant  culture chock (positive or negative) they had experienced when coming to Denmark . When we had all written one thing, we stood  in a circle and held the papers up so everyone could read them. The teacher held a rope in his hand, and threw the rope to whoever he thought had a statement that had something to do with his statement but he held on to the end of the rope. The person with the rope had to throw the rope to a third person which he thought had a statement that had a connection to his and of course still had a hold of the end of the rope. We had to move closer and closer. We continued with this and eventually we had created a spider web.
It was a very good way of getting to know what went on in each other's heads. And it was funny to see how many of the same things the foreign students had to say. They were all clearly chocked of the danish student's lack of respect for aouthotities. They used examples like the danish students would just go out from the lesson and go to the toilet without asking the teacher. Also they mentioned the eating during classes, they were used to only eating in the cafeteria back home. It's so funny that we don't even think of it as a huge thing when going to the toilet without asking and then hearing students from other countries being so surprised about it. I really liked this exercise!

"Globalization is worker abuse"

http://suite101.com/article/panacea-or-worker-exploitation-a29571



The article in the above link is, "Globalization is worker abuse" discusses whether global economy is positive or negative. 

Corporations view it as an opportunity to lower costs while widening markets. And they make four basic arguments:

1) The developed nation’s corporations can produce cheaper good and services overseas. For instance in Pakistan, Indonesia and China the labor is significantly lower. 

2) The developing nations can provide sustainable employment for its citizens.

3) Globalization encourages productivity and product diversity.

4) Corporations are free to expand their markets while simultaneously providing growth for their host nation. 

Also according to the United nations conference on trade and development, the GDP (Gross domestic product) in developing nations has increased 52% over the the last 30 years. Also the western GDP increased. 

lastly the proponents argue that the 6 biggest developing nations' GDP has increased 8% annually over the last 5 years. 

On the other hand, Labor opposes globalizations and views it as exploitation of developing nations and reducing labor standards on a global scale. 

They also list some arguments:

1) Outsourcing reduces internal labor strength, ultimately reducing purchasing power of a nation’s citizenry.

2) Developing nations do not equally apply international labor standards to uniformly benefit its citizenry.

3) National requirements differ between nations.

4) Corporations are free to evade civil and national responsibilities to the detriment of all nations.

the opponents also argue that the demand supply gap in the labor market will reach 5.6 million jobs by 2010 and the industries that will face this shortfall include IT, healthcare, biotechnology and nanotechnology. 
This means that the laborers will switch to these new industries. 

Also brookings Institute study shows that from 1970 to 2000 middle class neighborhoods have shrunk from 58% to 41% in the country.

So do you agree that globalization is worker abuse?