What are the similarities between Globalization and McDonaldization?
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Well, globalization might as well BE called McDonaldization because McDonald's led the way in corporate globalization and the rest of the corporate world followed.
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GLOBALIZATION\n\nThe politicians are being bribed to destroy America, we call these bribes campaign contributions. Monied interests who want to unify the Western Hemisphere into a single trade bloc from Canada to Chile have been supporting politicians who will make laws and policy decisions to bring about this goal. For years the ground work has quietly been laid, NAFTA, lax border enforcement, foreign aid to developing nations to impoversh those nations and make them subject to foreign money manipulation.\n\nWith the flood of illegals in the US the main opposition to this trade bloc, the US middle class, is being eliminated. Soon the middle class will vanish and there will be no group with the political will to resist the New World order being constructed against our interests.\n\nSo by allowing this massive influx of people into our nation it will destroy the middle class and stop the opposition for these trade blocs and ultimatly a New World Order.
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There has been an increase in globalization in the United States as well as in rest of the world. This has resulted in many good things as well a lot of economic dislocation and unemployment.  It is not completely evil as you seem to assume. Read Thomas Friedman's "The Lexus and the Olive Tree".\n\ncc
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globalization and international trade and coca cola always comes right before mcdonalds
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"Global localization" can refer to a broad-reaching or world-wide (global) strategy for the customization of materials to suit specific languages and locales (localization).\n\nIt can also refer to a local backlash in response to a perceived globalization "agenda" in a marketing campaign. That is to say, an increased focus on local traits/products in an effort to counteract the forces of globalization.
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Here are a few resources to get you started:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization\nhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/\nhttp://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/index.htm\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,,823274,00.html\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,,823097,00.html\nhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,,823296,00.html\nhttp://globalisationguide.org/
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Globalization effect or impact on supermarket is the same as the effect and impact on supply chain. As the world economy boundary disolve, a supermarket [i.e. Walmart] can have a corporate product planner and finance, but its sourcing, procurement and purchasing may be located elsewhere where manufacturing and supply is located.\n\nBy having local procurement, the supermarket can provide a daily updates on its requirement and future requirements [forecast] to the vendors and supplier, at the same time adjust its weekly purchase order to fit the need.\n\nOn the supplier side, with the crosss continent/cross time zone operation, can provide an efficient supply chain on the goods that supermarket require, based on lowest possible shipping cost and maximum volume.\n\nWhan this process is complete and the cargo arrive US dock or destination, the marekt where the goods is suppose to go will result in a continous supply, at a stable cost and possibly reduce in cost due to volume, at a weekly basis.\n\nOther materials you can read is about how container cargo enjoy the growth due to globalization. Newsweek article "The Box Is King", source http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12112804/site/newsweek/\n\nThe governance of global value chains\nhttp://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/(xkipbo45fluy23fk2tputp45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,4,9;journal,6,37;linkingpublicationresults,1:101485,1\n\nHope this helps\nantunxxx\nSupply Chain Director
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Globalization is neo-imperialism. This means the whole world should do what USA tells them to do. Anybody says anything against the western invasion, will be called "Anti-western" and be destroyed by American globalizers. On the other hand it is the god given right of the west to be anti-east. To make sure this plan of globalization works, son-of-a-bush is making sure that nobody else can have nuclear bombs. Only America has used nuclear bomb in the past and only they can have it.
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Supersize Me.  It's a lot about McDonald's but it really shows how obesity affects your quality of living.
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SIMPLY?\n\nGlobalization\n\nThe tendency of investment funds and businesses to move beyond domestic and national markets to other markets around the globe, thereby increasing the interconnectedness of different markets.
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This kind of question should be answer by someone in India. Globalization can be good to India, because a lot of entreprises can open factories there or not,  move that factories to another place. Globalization doesnt mean free buying without taxes in all world, that only happen in countries in EU. Now Africa countries to export their produts have great problems because taxes are high, that's one of the reason of poverty in Africa. Globalization helps or can make very bad situation in different country, its the democratization of all. Internet, for example is the globaliztion of information!!! A entreprise can leave one country bcs pay too much to their employees and open a factory on India because is cheaper, and that will be good to your country. Globalization is opening everything, there are people says is capitalism in his worse way. About food procesing industry u have to see in local in India.
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A globalized company is one that can operate worldwide.  A multinational company is one that has locations in more than one country.
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Like McDonalds hamburgers.          Billions
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All the Nations that wanted our technology and our wealth will want globalisation.  The only people in the US that actually gain from globalisation are the rich folks that have corporations in another country.\n\nEverything we need is here.\nEverything that the world need in here.\n\nWill you share your house with any stranger just because your rich neighbor said it is o.k.?\n\n\nBut once the US is at the bottom of the food chain even the US rich folks will be kick out of India or China like dogs.  When that happen our rich folks will parade us with US flags on all the Wal-Mart trucks again.
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Globalization is the predecessor to the one world government and the onset of martial law, that taken into consideration one could say the it could very well be the beginning of the decline in liberty.
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http://www.mcdonalds.com/usa/work.html
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Honestly if you are a developing country, you are probalby leery at best of Globalizaton. It offers very little protection for your local industry and very often leads all the way to a loss of gov. sovergnity. One of the features of the globalization system is that debt ridden industrialzing countries recieve short term aid packages from the IMF/World Bank. The problem is the way the packages work, countries are required to adjust the structure of their economy to recieve aid. These used to be called structural adjustment programs (SAP's) but the name has been changed as a result of many riots resulting from sap actions. Part of the problem is everything is privatized very quickly but there is little done to ensure any kind of safety net for the locals or the local businesses. What results is transnational companys swoop in, take what they can essentially, and leave with their investments which cripple a country. Likewise, countries are often told what to produce, but the influx of a certain good hurts prices, and at a competitve disadvantage to developed countries this can be a killer.\n\nTo answer the last questions.... it is not a secure financial system as many NIC (newly industrializing countries) are more debt ridden and have higher unemployment than before. Likewise, legally a country has less say over its gov. because of the debt they have incurred of high interest short term loans. \n\nAnother problem is the transnationals dont get taxed very much by the gov. (as a rule of the saps) so the privitization process can occur very rapidly at a high cost to the country. Also property rights are secure for the new investors and their companies because of sap rule, but not for the country.\n\nAs i think it shows, for developing countries, neoliberal economics (globalization) is not a very user friendly system. The spoils all go the global elite while the countries being used to create that wealth often end up in worse shape than before.