DBQ On Globalization

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Patrick Houlihan World History Mr. Sirois 28 May 2024 DBQ 7 Globalization has significantly impacted our daily lives, from providing us with goods we use every day such as clothes and technology. It has also allowed the world to grow significantly due to modern medicine and world relations. If we look at these effects at a base level, we might think that globalization was strictly positive and was the greatest thing to ever happen for humanity, yet there were some significant downsides.In Document 5 of our DBQ packet, we see an illustration of a machine labeled; “The free trade and globalization machine” This machine shows the downsides such as the destruction of natural resources, global cheap labor, and pollution. With these downsides, I …show more content…
The world population, however, starts quite close to the bottom, at 46 years, and by 2019 has increased to just over 70 years. The only problem with this graph is that we see the richer areas of the world with the highest life expectancies because they all tend to profit from cheap labor in less developed areas like Asia and Africa. This becomes more apparent in Document 7 which states that, “Your clothes are the evidence that globalization created jobs in the global south [...] Read the tags on your shoes, shirt, and pants. Were they made in China, Honduras, Bangladesh, or some other distant part of the globe? [...] How many hours do you think they would need to work to be able to purchase a pair? What kind of conditions do you think they work in?” After reading this passage, you might wonder which companies might do some of these things, and the biggest example of it happens to be Nike, yes Nike, the biggest shoe company in the world. Nike has been a part of some major scandals in the past, including how they claim to be a “social justice” company while in 1997, they subjected workers in Vietnam to 65-hour work weeks while only paying them

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