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Expanding Our Field of Vision

by Carolyn McCarronMay 02, 2003

Beneficial or not: Globalization is in full force and changing our profession, just like it is changing everything else around the world. As creative professionals, how much do we know about it? Do we understand how it is affecting our careers in communications and our roles in business?

To read article, go to Communication Arts' Web site.

  1. link to this comment by Robert L. Peters Wed Mar 24, 2004

    Globalization versus Globalism

    Excellent article, Carolyn. I'd like to comment with regard to a distinction that is being made in many parts of the world between Globalization and Globalism. There's a significant difference between these terms and the meanings they conjur up.

    For example, the Arabic translation of the word ‘globalization’ is revealing, as it literally means ‘world inclusivity.’ This definition goes beyond the somewhat more narrow view of globalization as the mere flow of goods, services, capital, technology, information, ideas and labour – without regard for social grievances, increased gaps between ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots,’ and unequal distribution of wealth, health and knowledge. Designers have an important role to play in the pursuit of a more inclusive globalism whose purpose lies in expanding opportunities for all, promoting cooperation and increasing liberty – with benefits to those at the margins as well as those at the centre. Pivotal in globalism is a respect for diversity and placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations.

    We know that globalization is a very pervasive force in the world today (though it tends to flow primarily from the so-called 'developed' world to the 'developing' world). I hope that consideration is given to the more holistic concept of globalism as well, and perhaps understanding the difference between them is a place to start?

    I look forward to reading your next installment.

  2. link to this comment by Tapart News Advocate Thu Mar 17, 2005

    We come together as individual nations for good reason. A nation brings together people who share a common culture and society based on agreed principles. The economy has to be in balance with all of this. For example the entitlements in the USA depend on what happens in the workday. If we have just Wal-Marts where workers are deeply dependent on public help, we have a real problem.
    When extra money flows into the economy it usually goes to the retail level first and then fans out to the places where the products are made. If the money spent goes to China, a void is created in handling the needs of common good in the USA.
    We should think global but act local. We need to nourish local value added economies where money flows up and down from raw product to retail in a given geopolitical setting. There is an economic ecology that has to be maintained for all in these geopolitical settings or else societies will degrade to the lowest common denominator down to wage slave labor.
    The Marshall Plan helped restore economies after World War 2 but it was based on restoring local value added economies one by one and it in itself was based on the awesome power of our own US industrial base. Now that base is gone and there is a void. A working poor class has been created in the USA and a destitute workers class in nations where the factories moved to. And the factories are not staying in one place but move again to more and more competitive labor markets where even child labor is used. Now the USA finds itself in a new kind of economic colonialism needing to protect interests througout the world. The so called new world order that the elder President Bush proclaimed is in a terrible disorder. Terrorism has followed with each nation trying to protect their own economic balances. For more information see Tapart Real World News and Art that Talks global issues at http://tapartnews.filetap.com http://tapsnewstory.filetap.com http://arklineart.fotopages.com

  3. link to this comment by Tapart News Editor Sat Sep 17, 2005

    Note the new domain address for Tapart News and Art that Talks global, trade and human dignity related to the workday in terms of social justice.
    Or you can search on Google, Yahoo, MSN or Donkeydo.com for hundreds of more references under Tapart News.
    Tapart News is dedicated to restoring local value added economies in the world. Franklin Roosevelt said economic diseases are highly communicable. Globalization is creating an epidemic of economic diseases.

  4. link to this comment by Tapsearch Com Editor Thu Sep 07, 2006

    For a good review of The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman, see http://tapsearch.com/flatworld / and http://tapsearch.com/flipflatworld by Ray Tapajna, Editor and Artist of Tapart News and Art that Talks.
    Thomas Friedman ignores the main fact of Globalization and Free Trade. Workers have no voice in the process.
    See the "unnetted" at http://www.experiencedesigner.com/archives.000636.html

  5. link to this comment by sumit Mon May 18, 2009

    It would have helped if you showed some previous numbers before the crisis so we could see how opinions have changed.
    I am surprised by the results on financial integrations as I would tie this in to FINANCIAL REGULATION that most nations are espousing. Maybe the contradiction can be explained by your experts.
    thanks to you for sharing this information with us.
    Most I think missed why integration and the resulting negative effects occurred. It was greed-driven and will continue to be so unless regulation and personal values change it. I think transparency can also help out as well as education of investors.
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