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Fairtrade is about better prices, decent working conditions, local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the developing world. By requiring companies to pay sustainable prices (which must never fall lower than the market price), Fairtrade addresses the injustices of conventional trade, which discriminates against the poorest, weakest producers. It enables them to improve their position and have more control over their lives. Lately, concerns about the impact of trade and investment on human rights and labor standards in developing nations have become an important striking topic about globalization in Europe and the United States. In particular, labor unions, human rights groups, and other NGOs warned about "sweatshops" in developing countries that produce items for export and are characterized by low wages, long working hours, unsafe and unsanitary conditions, child labor, and prohibitions against organization among workers. Many people fear that globalization also are responsible for the spread of sweatshop production in developing countries, because they compete to establish new export sectors and attract investment from footloose multinational firms. The most popular fair trade organizations are World Fair Trade Organization, The Fairtrade Foundation and International Co-operative Alliance.

https://wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/fair-trade-and-globalization

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How did technology of transport and communication change our opportunities to travel across the world and communicate with other people. Start with your own experiences: Did you ever travel to a faraway countries or do you participate in online communities or social networks? How did that change your life? Compare your experiences to those of your parents or grandparents. What is different? What is still the same? Post your article here!

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Technology of transport and communication changed our opportunities to travel across the world and communicate with other people. For example with phones you can log in different social networks which are in trends. In the past for seeing friends or family members from other countries or states you had to drive or fly to them. You also could send a letter with pictures so they can see you, but they were never the present. Today, you can call them with face time or send them an active video. We have many opportunities in communicating with others without being near or with them. This is a very positive thing because old people sometimes are scared of flying or they does not have the force of walking so they can just stay at home and talk to the people they want to talk. Yes we had been traveling to faraway countries by the train, airplane or by car. Many streets from one country are connected with other streets from other countries.  It has changed our life massive since we use social network platforms like Instagram. We are like dependent from internet friends or different trend videos. Many older people say that the youth of today are too often busy with their electronic devices. We have many unnecessary problems and want to clarify them all immediately with our phone. Our grandparents often cannotdeal with modern electrical devices, the sometimes do not even want to use them because they find them unnecessary and too much to deal with. I often video chat with my family in china and it is very practically. Everything has changed I cannot find any parallels with us and the people which was born 1950. In the past everybody talked much with each other they played board games at family meetings today the people do not talk very much with each other they write each other messages. They also do not like to play board games anymore they play video or computer games.

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Do a web Research on one of the following Topics:
1) Global cities (like New York, London, Tokyo)
2) Fair trade (e.g. choclate, fruits, clothes)
3) Transnational companies (like Starbucks, McDonald's)

Write an article for your padlet on your Topic. Explain what it has to do with globalization.

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Did your family or yourself migrate to Germany from another country? What were your experiences? What country/countries or cultures do you identify with? What does that have to do with globalization? Post your experiences here!

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Chose one of the products you use in your everyday life. Where is it produced? Who produces it? How much does it cost to make it, how much did you pay for it? Where does it go after you throw it away? What are the largest and most powerful companies in the world? Research these and other questions and post your article here.

Picture source: geographical.co.uk

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Has the world become a more peaceful or more violent place? What are the greatest conflicts today? What organizations are there to ‚govern the world‘? Find out about organizations like the UN, the NATO or the WTO, and about NGOs like the Red Cross or Medicins Sans Frontiers.

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Climate change and plastic waste are only some of the global environmental problems mankind has to fight. Find out about these problems and possible solutions. Post your articles here.

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Post and discuss opinions on globalization here!

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Globalization is often criticized. Find out about the arguments of critics. Also find out what people say in favor of globalization. You can also post your own opinion on globalization here and comment on other students' statements.

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On the picture you can see hands of somebody who wears a suit which rub the earth with a cheese grinder. The rest of the earth which is completely chopped is falling in a glass bowl. Under the bowl you can see a caption where ‘GLOBALIZATION’ is written. The hands symbolize people who take place in globalization such as everybody. So we are destroying the earth with our globalization. That means that while traveling around the world and distribute exhaust gases for bringing our goods in other countries with airplanes, ships or vehicles we polute the world.

Picture source: https://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/26499

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Countries become more industrialized and increased the production of their goods in order to overcome to demand. These industries in turn emitted various green house gases, which acted as a major contributor in the climate change. It is been assumed that this change in climate is due to human activities, hence alerted everyone and made it a global issue. The even composition of the atmosphere is altering due to the emission of tones of GHG (green house gases) through various activities like production, transportation, agriculture and consumer practices. Our atmosphere is gradually warming due to the accumulation of these gases. The impact of this climatic change can cause increase in drought conditions, floods are taking place frequently, also rising sea-levels and extreme temperatures are experienced. For solving the problem container ships should be filled completely and  be more sustainable while consuming less fuel. There are some ships which really work like this.

Source: https://www.ukessays.com/essays/environmental-sciences/is-globalization-a-cause-for-climate-change-environmental-sciences-essay.php

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The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration. Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately

source: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/globalization.html

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This Cartoon shows a negative Point of view against globalization. You can see somebody stepping on shops which sell environmental friendly products from the region. This cartoon shows us that globalization destroys our environment while producing very much products in big amounts with cheap labour costs from all over the world  and selling them very cheap. So people don‘t buy anymore products coming from farmers Producer in the nearby region. That‘s why Farmers make big losts and have Go close their business. That’s very Bad dir our environment, because at first the fuel of the Transport polluts the air and those products like apples offenbare sprayest with antipesticides for keeping them looking well, which is bad for human‘s health. For harvest eg vegetables mass producers put medicins on their vegetables for letting them grow faster. They infiltrate in the groundwater and pollute it. We also drink water, which Comedy from the groundwater.

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My Grandparents came from Macedonia to Germany around 1960. It was really new for them and hard because they had to learn the German language for getting a good job and integrating.  I identify myself with the Macedonian culture, because a part of my family lives there, I speak the language and am familiar with the norms and customs of the country. This has to do a lot with globalization, because I think I wouldn’t be familiar with the culture of Germany if my grandparents hadn’t migrate here. I also wouldn’t know that language and couldn’t communicate or bind connections with people in Germany. My education also wouldn’t be the same and I could be less educated in things like IT or technic.

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I use my shoes every day. It’s produced by the brand Nike in China. The production of those costed around 20 cent and I bought them for 100 Euros. When I’ll throw it away they’ll land in a garbage and then they’ll go to a garbage dump where they’ll be burned off. The most powerful companies are China National Petroleum Corporation with $262.6 billion revenue in 2017 and Toyota Motor with $254.7 billion Revenue also in 2017 (https://financesonline.com/top-10-richest-companies-in-the-world-in-2018-by-revenue/). We saw that companies which trade with electric devices and cars are the most powerful and earn the most money with their products/ business.

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Nuclear deterrence has produced

the menace of limited wars, proxy wars and civil wars. Big powers have now shifted their

rivalry to small powers in form of proxies and we can see a world full of conflicts from Syria to Yemen and From Congo to East Timor. That’s why we think that the world is not getting more  peaceful  and reality is in front  of us in form of Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Congo, Rwanda, Palestine, Kashmir, Syria and direct or indirect involvement of whole world in these conflicts. We researched that the greatest conflicts directly threatens the U.S. homeland, is likely to trigger U.S. military involvement, or threatens the supply of critical U.S. strategic resources.

War in Afghanistan

Civil War in Syria

Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea

Tensions in the East China Sea

North Korea Crisis

Political Instability in Iraq

We also found out that these are the most important ‚intergovernmental organizations‘: Nuclear power organizations, European Atomic Energy Community, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Centre for Synchrotron-Light for Experimental Science Applications in the Middle East, Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, Nuclear Energy Agency and United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. UN, NATO and WTO are international peacekeeping organizations. The main goals of the UN are international peace, international security, economic development, social progress, respect for human rights and the achievement of world peace. Currently, 28 members are represented in NATO and its activities include international crisis management, the making of key decisions on international security and cooperation with other international organizations. The WTO deals with the global rules of trade and secures, for example, the uncomplicated, predictable and free trade in the world. NTOs like the Red Cross work worldwide with humanitarian aid and advances rights that protect war victims, for example.