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Speaker 1: is all about globalizations impact on the UK. Before we
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Speaker 1: the UK asked me to take a listen, and I
Speaker 1: was so impressed with it. It was so well researched
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Speaker 1: It's one of those synoptic areas, synoptic topics. Globalization comes
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Speaker 2: Okay, so today I'll be jussing whether the globalization benefits
Speaker 2: all countries. When we talked about globalization and a level sociology,
Speaker 2: I feel like it's very focused on Vexa has in
Speaker 2: the UK and countries in the global North, but not
Speaker 2: so much countries in Global South, like India, China, the continents,
Speaker 2: of South America and Africa, and I feel like it's
Speaker 2: very important to know about the VECTA has in them
Speaker 2: two as many of the resources for trading technology we
Speaker 2: wouldn't have without the global sealth. In this podcast, I'll
Speaker 2: talk about globalization's impact on the UK and how it
Speaker 2: fits countries in the Global South. I relate these to
Speaker 2: the topics of education and families, as well as evaluating
Speaker 2: them with different sociologists perspectives. The definition of globalization is
Speaker 2: the world becoming increasingly interconnected via technology, travel and trade.
Speaker 2: Globalization obviously has its positives and negatives for most countries,
Speaker 2: but some parts of the world experienced the negative consequences
Speaker 2: far more. Most simply put countries in the global North
Speaker 2: the most globalizations, countries in the South South of the
Speaker 2: most from globalization. So first we'll talk about education. So
Speaker 2: technology is used to share ideas across nations, such as
Speaker 2: US charter schools influencing the creation of UK academies. Technology
Speaker 2: is also used to give opportunities for remote learning, such
Speaker 2: as being widely used in the COVID nineteen pandemic. According
Speaker 2: to MPR dot org, Cobalt is used for smartphones, computers, batteries,
Speaker 2: and electrical vehicles. However, this involves extremely dangerous labor for
Speaker 2: just a few dollars a day by exporting people and children.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, the DRC produced approximately seventy four
Speaker 2: percent of the world's cobalt. Also, Mitchelton Brown argues that
Speaker 2: industries like steel, iron mining and engineering have mood broad
Speaker 2: as labor is cheaper there. So this is another example
Speaker 2: of that and led to the decline in traditional mail
Speaker 2: jobs in the UK, especially for working classmen, and it
Speaker 2: has led to an identity crisis for young males in education.
Speaker 2: So this also shows how there's negative impacts in people
Speaker 2: in the UK as well as from countries in the
Speaker 2: Global South. Marxists would highlight that this is an example
Speaker 2: of workers becoming isolated from their work and exploiting the
Speaker 2: poor by making companies and CEOs richer. So the company's
Speaker 2: CEOs are from the most money by paying the work
Speaker 2: is the least amount of money. While technology may be
Speaker 2: useful for countries spuriers and communication, the same technology only
Speaker 2: exists through exploitation of people in the Global South. This
Speaker 2: highlights how countries both from go North and South can
Speaker 2: suffer from this. Okay, it's now into families, so there's
Speaker 2: been an increase of nannies from poor countries. An extract
Speaker 2: from the book Global Women, Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers
Speaker 2: in the New Economy by Barbara Ehenreich and Arlie Rossell
Speaker 2: Horosschild So I've pronounced that wrong states that women from
Speaker 2: poor developing countries are migrating to developed nations to work
Speaker 2: as maids and nannies to raise other people's children, but
Speaker 2: not able to raise their children back in their home countries.
Speaker 2: Probably pushes these women to leave their home countries. So
Speaker 2: this has led to flow a female labor when women
Speaker 2: from Global South countries migrated to do quote unquote women's
Speaker 2: work in the North. This is partially because there's been
Speaker 2: an increase of female breadwinners in the Global North. So
Speaker 2: both parents are busy at work and don't have time
Speaker 2: to look after their children, so they need a nanny
Speaker 2: to look after children. Also, countries like the US do
Speaker 2: not offer public childcare for working mothers, so this is
Speaker 2: another reason why nannies from a global seuth come to
Speaker 2: work for families in the Global North. But as upclass
Speaker 2: and UK families benefit from purchasing these nannies, the NAIs
Speaker 2: have to change their whole lives and across the globe
Speaker 2: and ban their children to do so. The difference Showness
Speaker 2: would argue that this highlights that women aren't heterogeneous and
Speaker 2: not every woman experiences the own difficulties. So if you're
Speaker 2: a woman from a global South and you're working class
Speaker 2: and you're a marginalized ethnicity in the UK, then you're
Speaker 2: going to be more oppressed and more compared to upper
Speaker 2: class white British families. Globalization has also led to an
Speaker 2: increase of trade, so therefore an increase of overconsumption, especially
Speaker 2: from the globe North. Marxist Zetsky likes how families at
Speaker 2: as an important market for the sale of consumer goods
Speaker 2: and capitalists can easily profit off them and see operusts
Speaker 2: of workers for more than they pay them. So I guess,
Speaker 2: like for example, miners in Congo, that's an example of that.
Speaker 2: Adverts like the Joneses highlight the pressure to consume the
Speaker 2: latest products and keep up with the latest trends, as
Speaker 2: well as this pestive power from children and pressure their
Speaker 2: parents into buying them products. So they're obviously influenced by
Speaker 2: the media to get more toys as they are believed
Speaker 2: that these toys will bring them happiness. However, the Global
Speaker 2: South suffer immensely from this, not only from working in sweatshops,
Speaker 2: but also the consequences of buying all these products. The
Speaker 2: Center for International Environmental Law says that eighty percent of
Speaker 2: toys end up in anfields, in surats or oceans, an
Speaker 2: account for almost six percent of blandfill, plastics business ways
Speaker 2: dot co UK highlights across the world each year there's
Speaker 2: ninety two million tons of textiles waste and this is
Speaker 2: responsible for ten percent of greenhouse gases. The cost of
Speaker 2: living crisis has also influenced families and people to buy
Speaker 2: clothes from fast fashion brands as they're cheaper and they
Speaker 2: can get more of them for a cheaper amount these brands.
Speaker 2: So these are brands like H and M, Sheene, Primark,
Speaker 2: and so on. However, countries from Global South, although not
Speaker 2: the ones that are over consuming, usually face the results
Speaker 2: of this overconsumption and this waste of textiles and products
Speaker 2: that is purchased from the Global South experienced the effects
Speaker 2: of climate change the most sample countries like Kenya. According
Speaker 2: to Greenpeace, second hand clothes are given to poorer countries
Speaker 2: like Kenya. The clothes that are imported are usually poor
Speaker 2: qual to and this also shows how countries are from
Speaker 2: Gal South have to deal with consequences of vast fashion.
Speaker 2: In twenty nineteen, Kenya imported one hundred and eighty five
Speaker 2: thousand tons of secondhand clothes and thirty to forty percent
Speaker 2: of it having no value than five hunds to a
Speaker 2: tenty four thousand tons was textiles waste, and about one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty to two hundred tons of this ways
Speaker 2: ended up being dumped, burned or sent to overflow dumb
Speaker 2: sites like Dundura. So this is also a feature of
Speaker 2: climate colonialism, which is the exploitation of resources empowered by
Speaker 2: Global North countries when dealing with climate change. So like
Speaker 2: Global North countries usually abuse their positions of power and
Speaker 2: wealth and dump their like products such as like overflowing
Speaker 2: like waste of textiles to global Talth countries and export
Speaker 2: their solutions abroad rather than trying to fix their ways
Speaker 2: of pollution. The semstrates how families in Global North now
Speaker 2: have access and more choice to buy products that keep
Speaker 2: them the latest trends and mature objects like toys to
Speaker 2: feel that to fill their interests of their children. However,
Speaker 2: the Global South suffer immensely from the consequences of this overconsumption,
Speaker 2: which leads to excess waste which is exported to Global
Speaker 2: South countries, creating more pollution and damage to those nations.
Speaker 2: Marsters will be critical of this as not only fast
Speaker 2: fashion companies are creating anither coal places of work, but
Speaker 2: they clearly don't care about the impact that has environment
Speaker 2: around them. They care most about the profits and getting
Speaker 2: the most money by sending these clothes for cheap and
Speaker 2: when no one wants them, landfall sites will give them
Speaker 2: to countries and Global South, which is also quite patronizing
Speaker 2: to the people in the Global South and makes it
Speaker 2: seem as they are like blow the Global North because
Speaker 2: they're getting the remains that they don't want. In conclusion,
Speaker 2: globalization has many benefits towards the UK, like more migration
Speaker 2: so better economy, as does more care as there's more terrors,
Speaker 2: more domestic jobs and more people working for the NHS,
Speaker 2: and there's also an increase in technology. But the very
Speaker 2: things that we benefit from come from places of abuse
Speaker 2: and exploitation in which Global Salth countries suffer from, so
Speaker 2: not all countries who benefit from globalization, and maybe we
Speaker 2: should think next time the things that we have, the
Speaker 2: mature things that we have in our homes where they're
Speaker 2: originally from one of their from places of ethical work backgrounds.
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