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”
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.