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Kmart allows some of us to have access to affordable products.

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Kmart allows some of us to have access to affordable products.

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I previously posted about my guilt for having an iPhone 7 and how I am aware that there are people overseas who work under poor conditions which enable me to have this luxury. Even thought I am aware of my unethical shopping decisions and the downfalls that affect people locally - jobs being sent overseas for cheap labour and how it also exploits peoples human rights for cheap labour- I do believe there are some benefits that come out of this terrible cycle. In a local sense, we are now able to have access to cheap and affordable products that can be purchased all in one store at our convenience in stores such as Kmart. There are many people from low income families and individuals who are able to buy things that will contribute to them having a better life. Being able to buy white goods such as a kettle or toaster for just $15 rather than $70 would put some kind of financial strain off the families or individuals. People are now able to buy stationary and uniforms for their children, toys for Christmas or birthdays, electronics for the home, homewares and clothing for everyone is also now more affordable than ever. People now have a choice, and for some people, this may be their .only choice and for others who can afford to, can decide to make more ethical decisions on what kind of products they would like to buy. I see this as a positive in a local sense but also understand that there are people on the other side of the world who are bearing the consequences of cheap labour for cheap products The answer to creating fairness for everyone seems to be complicated.

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I agree with Ines and her view on globalisation as there are negative and positive factors from the concept. Events like the Paris attack did bring many countries and people together and was an awakening for a lot of us. Without technology informing us of what is happening in the world. Through globalisation we can all come together and help each other out and support each other. It would be strange to not know about these events happening in other countries and technology has definitely had a positive impact in many ways. I am also excited to learn more about globalisation and what it has to offer whether that is positive or negative.

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Response to 'connected' by Isabella Nethery

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Response to 'connected' by Isabella Nethery

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I agree with this perspective of globalisation. Globalisation has also allowed me to stay in contact with family who is overseas or friends whilst they travel or vice versa. My aunty and uncle adopted two gorgeous african boys and without globalisation I would not have had the experience of welcoming these boys into my life. I have got to travel to other countries and learn about different cultures which has tested my views on the world and made me reassess my priorities and appreciate everything i have much more in life.

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Globalisation for me is a difficult topic to understand and wrap my head around. However the first thing that popped into my mind was social media and technology. Accessing social media through technological devices enables us to be up to date in world events and provides us a portal to access an astounding amount of information. For example, I firstly thought of the Paris attack, the Orlando shooting and the ongoing war in Syria. After these horrific events occurred social media erupted. Everywhere I looked I saw #prayforparis or #prayforsyria. Even Facebook created profile picture covers to raise awareness for the events. People around the world were almost united in a moment of grieving and advocacy. This I believe, was a positive movement because of globalisation. However, I do acknowledge that there are negative aspects of it as well i.e. biased reports, false accusations & increasing stereotypes. I still personally haven’t decided whether I believe globalisation is a good or bad thing, right now though I’m focusing on acknowledging the positive and negative aspects of it and furthering my knowledge on the subject.

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Globalisation through social media has made us aware of social issues.

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Globalisation through social media has made us aware of social issues.

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Due to the rise in social media we now have more access and exposure to social issues that arise both domestically and globally. The article below outlines how social media gives voice to those who might be considered diverse which in turn makes us aware of their social issues.
http://www.adweek.com/digital/oscarssowhite-how-social-media-raises-awareness-for-diversity-and-social-issues/

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Response to "Culture" Post by Alex (Scott Guy)

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Response to "Culture" Post by Alex (Scott Guy)

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I tend to agree with Alex Berlin’s post on culture. In particular, as social workers, we need to have a nuanced awareness of how insidiously western discourses permeate community development and how these (discourses) unwittingly are re-inscribed in clinical practice with (for example) Indigenous peoples. Post-colonial theory, in particular, has exposed just how difficult it is to deconstruct our social location since this is already very much instantiated in western social work theory and clinical practice. For example, western empowerment and anti-oppressive practice is somewhat of an oxymoron since it essentialises, generalises and problematises oppressed Indigenous peoples; thus further disabling them and paradoxically reinforcing White (colonial) hegemony. In a specifically Australian context, passive notions of social welfare entitlement seem to be inimical and antithetical to concepts of Indigenous self-governance and self-determination. The advantage here of post-colonial theory is the need, as workers, to focus on developing bottom-up, participatory and process-oriented empowerment and community development strategies that utilise existing indigenous strengths; rather than “imposing” paternalistic top-down “solutions” that paradoxically undermine service-user capacities – as illustrated in the Northern Territory (income management) Intervention in 2007.
Scott Guy

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Response to 'Globalisation creating a drive for greed within the wealthy'

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Response to 'Globalisation creating a drive for greed within the wealthy'

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I agree with your point that as consumers we turn a “blind eye towards where our products come from” as long as it makes our products affordable. However, in relation to globalisation creating a drive for greed, instead I believe globalisation has not driven greed but magnified this greed as globalisation has allowed for large corporations to be able to have access and influence across the world. This includes the factories they have around the world in which there are unethical working conditions. This demonstrates Giddens perspective that globalisation leads to a “compression of time and space”. Additionally, I would like to add to your point that not only does this greed and wealth impact individuals but also the environment. These corporations have the ability to influence both law in relation to labour and the environment. For example, in more recent years these large corporations have colonised rainforest areas as producing goods is cheaper in less industrialised countries.  Rainforests are destroyed by timber companies for logging, oil companies for new oil deposits and to mine minerals and metals.

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Response to "Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor" Post.

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Response to "Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor" Post.

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I tend to agree with the post in relation to the “Growing Gap Between Rich and Poor”. Globalisation has intensified, not reduced, inequalities insofar as multinational corporations can now “transcend” national laws and boundaries and “exploit” labour from the Global South and operate in nations with low tax regimes and little environmental regulations.  The recent Trans-Pacific Partnership with Asia exposed perfectly the deficiencies of international trade with provisions protecting Australian labour only being introduced as an incidental afterthought following concerted advocacy by the ACTU. Moreover, the recent federal Senate Committee hearings on corporate tax minimisation/avoidance by multinationals is exposing how little tax technological and pharmaceutical companies are indeed paying –despite the benefits of utilising Australian infrastructure. One response to this seemingly intractable problem is, as both Anthony Giddens and David Held have consistently advocated, is to develop transnational governance structures thereby militating against companies avoiding social and legal obligations by “moving offshore”. Another response may be, as social workers, is to engage in concerted consciousness-raising campaigns whereby negative publicity is brought against (for example) environmentally irresponsible companies – such as the environmental damage caused by Adani coal mining or Rio Tinto’s poor environmental record in Papua New Guinea. Adverse publicity may “tarnish” global corporate “brands” thereby promoting environmental accountability and ensuring the world’s poorest and most marginalised groups are not disproportionately affected by unethical and illegal corporate practices.

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There are many negative impacts from globalisation that bring out strong opinions and reactions in people but statistics have shown us that there are also many benefits we can see from globalisation.  I have attached a Ted talk video that helps to explain globalisation and the impacts from global trade on the disadvantaged or poor people of different parts of the world. The video explains how places like Vietnam and Indonesia have benefited in certain ways from the expansion of global trade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIldvz0jygE

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Globalization and the poor -- a look at the evidence | Krisztina Kis-Katos | TEDxStuttgart

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Personally, globalisation has allowed me to travel and experience other cultures, however this travel can have a profound effect on the destination and their culture. Through technology international boundaries have become blurred allowing cultures to become disposed to new influences, permitting globalisation. Whilst this can be empowering as it connects the world, sanctions economic development and makes information more readily accessible it can also be disempowering. This disempowerment occurs through misrepresentation and stereotyping, providing an avenue for further colonisation and a sense of individualism being lost.  This concerns me as whilst I want to experience other cultures I am interested in finding a way to do so that won’t disempower them. Hence, questions are raised to whether it is possible to have the positive impacts of globalisation without the negative? And, if not what can be done to alleviate some of this disempowerment related to globalisation?

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In many respects, globalisation connects and unites people and communities from across the globe, yet at the same time a hungry global economy puts nations in competition with each other. To me the world seems obsessed with consumerism, to the point where many cannot imagine life without trips to the shops to buy the latest gadget. I worry that our focus on what we want, makes it too easy for many of us (myself included) to forget what every living person on earth needs as a basic human right. I feel that even though the global economy opens pathways for different nations to trade and work together, the market is competitive in nature which fuels greed and makes some people put their own selfish wants ahead of the needs of the vulnerable depending on help to survive.

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Globalisation for me has allowed me to keep connected with my family overseas. Although it's only one impact created from globalisation it is a major one for me as having family over in Mauritius, a small island, it would've been extremely difficult for me to keep these family connections back when the interconnectedness of global systems weren't as prevalent within society. The ability to access communication with people from all corners of the Earth in regards to their health and financial systems has played a major role in allowing me to look after my family and although there can be negative effects caused from globalisation, there are also positive outcomes as well.

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Globalisation is a highly contested concept. Arguably, it conflates neo-liberal prescriptions about the desirability of deregulation, trade liberalisation, and privatisation with the actual reality of global developments which may alternately be interpreted as an intensification of colonial and post-colonial processes. Are these neo-liberal discursive prescriptions (for example, by Anthony Giddens) in fact informing and constituting our perceived "reality" of globalisation? Moreover, the embrace of globalising processes (through, for example, deregulating labour markets), is an explicitly deliberate political choice on the part of national governments - and not an acknowledgment of, and abrogation to, "irresistible" global forces. For example, nations which have retained their national political and economic sovereignty and resisted global integration - such as the Scandinavian countries - have still managed to achieve far superior outcomes in terms of equality, fairness and full employment than those that have explicitly embraced neo- liberal agendas -i i.e US and Australia.

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Globalisation has created a drive for greed within the wealthy and they want to increase their wealth. To ensure this many business owners source from unethical working conditions to ensure their cost of production is at an all time low. As consumers we often turn a blind eye towards where our products come from so long it is beneficial to us (as in its cheap). Particularly in Australia, whilst we are angered when we see working rights violated, when it is hidden from our eyes in other countries it seems to disappear from the forefront of our minds.

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I have a pink iPhone 7 and I am a little ashamed... Why? Because I feel strongly about fairness and social justice but it doesn't stop me from being an unethical consumer. #moderndayslavery

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Globalisation and greediness Isabella Nethery

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Globalisation and greediness Isabella Nethery

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Globalisation has encouraged a desire for cheap and accessible goods from all over the world yet we do not often think about where they come from and how they were produced. There is an app that I recently discovered called shop ethical which informs shoppers about how fair and morally correct businesses are. When I was confronted with the name of unethical shops which use child labour and underpay their staff I felt guilty and selfish. So many of us will pick a cheap item of clothing over an expensive one for our own sake however we often do not think about why the item is so cheap.. like how can a brand new t-shirt be $3. When I shop I like to have trust in businesses however due to globalisation it is hard to know how fair and ethical the businesses are in other countries.