Globalisation - 3.1 Flashcards

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What is globalisation?

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A process of global integration of economies, politics, products, ideas and other aspects of culture

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How are global connections lengthening?

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There are new links between places that are greater distances apart

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How are global connections faster?

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Faster speed of connections with people. You are able to to talk to one another in real time or travelling quickly between continents using jet air craft

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How are global connections deepening?

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More peoples lives can connect with far away places eg. purchasing commodities/cheaper travel. It’s not just the rich who ‘live globally’

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Is globalisation good?

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  • Free markets have spread so there’s no taxes/tariffs on selling goods
  • New e and i services are available like facebook and iTunes so culture can spread easily and migrants still have an element of home
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Is globalisation bad?

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  • 1 million people a year left Europe after 1990 so a ‘brain drain’ happens as the educated workforce is leaving and they could migrate to an over-populated place
  • TNCs are more powerful than national governments meaning there a lack of money circulation so hard to develop areas that need the money down get it
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Examples of global flow - economic

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Trade of bananas from the Caribbean to the UK occurs due to containerisation and transport development

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Examples of global flow - social

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Maintenance of social relationships through the use of technology helps support migration. In 2003 Skype provided a cheap and powerful link with family

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Examples of global flow - Cultural

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Music, language adopted, imitated and hybridised faster than before. In 2012, the South Korean PSY had over 1.8 billion views for Gangnam Style

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Examples of global flow - Political

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Social networks are used to raise awareness on political issue and fight for global change eg BLM movement

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Examples of global flow - environmental

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Since globalisation sea/air pollution has increased with addition in air travel and movement of waste

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Important innovations in transport and trade - steam power

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Britain was a leading power in 1800s with steam technology. They moved good and armies along trade routes into Africa and Asia

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Important innovations in transport and trade - railways

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In the 1800s rail networks expanded globally. In 1904 the 9000km Trans-Siberian railway connected Moscow with China and Japan. And today the HS2 railway is being built

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Important innovations in transport and trade - phone and telegraph

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First telegraph cables across the Atlantic were put in in the 1800s replacing a week long boat journey. Africa is skipping this and ‘leap frogging’ to mobile phone lines

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Important innovations in transport and trade - jet aircraft

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The arrival of the intercontinental Boeing 747 made travel faster and more common

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What is the time-space compression?

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As the world becomes more connected, our perception of time, distance and potential barriers to the immigration of people, goods, money and information has changed

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What is the shrinking world theory?

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As travel times are reduced due to new inventions, places approach each other in the space-time and they start to feel closer together

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What is containerisation?

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It’s a system of standardised transport. Eg. ‘The Globe’ is a container ship that’s 72 miles long (the distance from Birmingham to Manchester), can contain 19,100 containers and is 75m tall

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EasyJet CS

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When a place is added to the easy jet network, it becomes more popular, this can be seen in Tallin, Estonia in 2004 when they started flying there for £40 each. The city became an affordable destination for uK citizens like for stag and hen parties.
Benefits: easier to travel and go on holiday
Costs: Flight attendants are not fairly paid, the plane isn’t always clean and there is limited seating space
EasyJet 2009 - around 300 routes within the EU and several that extended beyond Egypt, Morocco, Turkey and Israel
EasyJet 2014 - 200 aeroplanes (Airbus and Boeing) carrying 65 million with revenues of £4 billion

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Global networks - distribution of computers and internet users

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Computers and internet users are concentrated in the UK, USA and Australia. <10% of the African population is connected to the internet whereas >80% of the USA’s population is connected to the internet

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Global networks - access to electricity and light

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Switched on nations: USA, UK, France, Spain and Italy

Switched off nations: Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Madagascar

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Global networks - access to twitter

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Linked to development - internet access and social interaction.
Switched on: UK and USA
Switched off: Russia, Iceland