Blog Entry 3

1. For my third blog entry, I decided to talk about abortions. During class, we talked about how there is a practice in certain countries such as India where people will go through an abortion if they find out if a child is a female. 

2. During my time in India, I remember hearing about the protests that were against this on the news from time to time and speaking about it in class made me think about it and I decided to do some research. "It is estimated that in India a female fetus is aborted every minute, resulting in skewed sex ratios like 1,000 men for every 618 women in India’s Daman and Diu region" according to the article listed below. 

One of the reasons why female fetuses are aborted are due to similar reasons that we learned about earlier, being that the male is the one who will take care of the family as the female will be married and eventually leave the house. It as deemed as a poor investment. It is the same as education and is a norm that needs to be broken. 

3. If i had unlimited funding, i would set up some sort of way to educate those who do not have the opportunity to go to school. I feel like education is a big factor as to why this happens and will decrease if women are provided with the same opportunities as men. There is no way to tell what someone can achieve, and depriving them of their right to live and become something in life is wrong.

Sources: https://www.newsrecord.co/answering-for-indias-missing-girls-sex-selective-abortion-in-india/

Blog Entry 2

1. During my group's seminar discussion on economic globalization, I feel as if the majority if not all the negative effects of globalization have roots that link back to money driven motives. The wealthiest individuals in the world are only getting richer where as the poor and poverty stricken families are barely making enough money to survive. As a business major, I can understand the business side of globalization, but after watching the video about the clothes factory in Bangladesh, it makes you reevaluate what is going on in the world and what I can do to make a difference. I chose to talk about the negative consequences of economic globalization as it is deeply sickening the way people are getting treated just so the rich get richer.

2. I will agree that economic globalization has its benefits, it provides job opportunities in developing countries, free trade and knowledge and expertise  to developing countries. The list is a lot longer I'm sure but there are also consequences. The main one that bothers me is due to other countries laws and regulations aren't as strictly enforced as they are in the U.S. Companies have been getting away with children as well as women who are working in oppressive conditions as we saw in the video about the Bangladesh factory. People are getting treated like they aren't human just so corporations can make a profit.
During a visit to India a few years back, I was completely oblivious to globalization and its negative consequences, I saw children working who were younger than me, weren't wearing shoes and doing work adults should be doing. I didn't make much of it but when I look back at those memories, these children have never had an opportunity to do something with their lives, they work from a young age and have no education just so they can feed themselves.

3. If I had all the money in the world and wanted to make a change in this regard, I would set up a non-profit organization to help get these people out of those horrible work conditions and give them an opportunity to learn and educate themselves so they can have a career and hopefully a good life. Another thing that needs to happen on a global scale is the strict enforcement against child labor as well as non-humane work conditions.

Blog Entry 1

1. After our seminar on culture globalization, I feel as if this is one of the biggest issues our people are feeling today. One's culture, traditions and customs define their way of life, their heritage and history. In today's world, these aspects of an individuals life are starting to diminish. Globalization as we know it today is affecting individuals in the world creating a more and more homogeneous world.

2. Although, our world becoming increasingly alike, losing touch with our background is a serious negative side-effect of globalization. I do believe that being a homogeneous world may lead to world peace, but not at the cost of losing our cultural aspects. I say this from a personal perspective as I am a first generation born in the U.S. from an immigrant family. I have had difficulty speaking my mother tongue as well as having to balance out the western way of life opposed to that by which my parents have been raised and passed on to me.
During a recent visit to my parents birthplace, I noticed that English had become more common compared to when I went when I was a kid. Not only English, but the way we dress, music, films, etc. are all adapting to the western way as it is viewed as being "superior". If this trend keeps on going, who knows maybe in a few decades the entire world will be speaking English and only a few people will know their mother tongue as well as their cultural background.
Although globalization can be good, it can also have negative effects on the world.

3. I would like to know why the Western way of life is viewed as being superior and why more and more countries are trying to adapt to this way of life rather than taking pride in their own customs. I feel like this is more common among youngsters.