The importance of American role to deal with global inequality created through globalization

Title:  The importance of American role to deal with global inequality created

              through globalization

Topic: Globalization

Relation: Spradley, Conformity and Conflict, Chapter 15, pgs. 146-155

Source: My information comes from the article of Judy Miller.

“Globalization Widens Rich-Poor Gap, U.N. Report Says”

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/13/world/globalization-widens-rich-poor-gap-un-report-says.html

Description: This article talks about that globalization intensify the gap between poor and rich nations. America dominates all economically over the world. Dollars is very strong in terms of monetary mobilization. As the Internet and computer technology spread in the world, this world has been globalized and developed. However, as this article states, the problem is wealth distribution is poorly divided between poor and rich countries like “Wealth inequality.” From this article, even if poorest nation face difficulty such as the corruption, and mismanagement of resources, they do not handle well and this lets other rich nation to hesitate giving foreign aid to them.  Since industrialized countries have more accessibility to technology, the gap between rich and poor gets bigger and bigger as one of elements to accompany in globalization. This is why there is anti American or anti free trade, as well as anti globalization sort of ideas are out there in our current society.  In the end, this article concludes that America should be a very helpful country in order to pursue human rights as well as democracy. The international community has not figured how to deal with such global inequality, and this would be next step that America has to deal with.   

Commentary/Analysis:  According to the chapter 15 in Conformity and Conflict titled Global women in the New Economy, the author says “Thanks to the process we loosely call ‘globalization,‘ women are on the move as never before in history.” This article is about as the world gets globalized, people tend to migrate to the rich nations from the poor ones, especially women. But even those women go to other nations for money, the gap between poor and rich does not minimize. Therefore, I thought that this chapter in Conformity and Conflict could be related with the article that I found. In CC, rich nations didn’t take any action for those who migrate from poor nation. “Global inequalities in wages are particularly striking” (CC 152).  However, like the article I found said, if richer countries try to support and give aids to poor nations, the gap between them can be gradually minimized.