Diversity Concept Worksheet

Concept

Application of Concept in your personal and/or professional life

Reference to Concept in Reading

Globalization "describes the accelerating links between nations

and people in a world system connected economically, politically, and by

modern media and transportation," (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2003, p. 36).

As innovation in technology increase, so does globalization. I work for a Japanese company and we communicate through video conferencing. We can send files back and forth through the use of the Internet. I does not matter where any of our offices are located. "With globalization, long-distance contact is easier, faster, and cheaper than ever. Although people travel more than ever, migrants and other travelers maintain their ties with home (by phoning, emailing, faxing, visiting, and sending money). In a sense, such people live multilocally, in different places at once. More and more people live multilocal and transnational rather than territorially confined, state-based lives," (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2003, p. 36).

"With globalization, long-distance contact is easier, faster, and cheaper than ever. Although people travel more than ever, migrants and other travelers maintain their ties with home (by phoning, emailing, faxing, visiting, and sending money)," (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2003, p. 36).

Anti-globalization is the resistance to globalization.

"The antiglobalists agree that governments and international institutions

put the interests of big companies ahead of those of the public on

poverty reduction, the environment, human rights and jobs," (Kottak & Kozaitis, 2003, p. 35).

The large protests which were seen at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, the WTO meetings, and other summits typically, have been against varying types of globalization. The issues were marginalization and disparities between the haves and have-nots. The rich and the poor. "There is, of course, resistance to globalization,