This article is relevant because it shares the United States wants to develop infrastructure to increase productivity and profits. This brought to mind the Modernization theory. We are at stage 5 “High Mass Consumption” because we are at a high output, have higher income, and increased consumer expenditure.

This article shows how globalization has deepened the cultural and economic divisions of countries since some countries are able to take advantage of globalization while others aren’t. This reminded me of core, periphery, and semi-periphery countries in Worlds-systems theory. There’s an unequal exchange where the core takes from periphery, leading to those countries being underdevelopment.

This article describes the recent unpopularity of globalization due to loss of identity and status. This reminded me of the lecture when Dr. Sowers asked us if we feel like we belong to something larger than our own society. We agreed that we do because we are shopping at stores like Wal-Mart and buying American-made cars.

This article reminded me of the Globalization Project and Hayek’s ideas we discussed in class. Hayek believed in a free market and Obama is pushing for global corporations to run the world.