Is Globalization a Good Thing?
There is a heated debate about the true effects of globalization and if it really is such a good thing. Good or bad, though, there isn't much argument as to whether or not it is happening. Let's look at the positives and negatives of globalization, and you can decide for yourself whether or not it is the best thing for our world.
4. Positive Aspects of Globalization
As more money is poured into developing countries, there is a greater chance for the people in those countries to economically succeed and increase their standard of living.
Global competition encourages creativity and innovation and keeps prices for commodities/services in check.
Developing countries are able to reap the benefits of current technology without undergoing many of the growing pains associated with the development of these technologies.
Governments are able to better work together towards common goals now that there is an advantage in cooperation, an improved ability to interact and coordinate, and a global awareness of issues.
There is a greater access to foreign culture in the form of movies, music, food, clothing, and more. In short, the world has more choices.
Negative Aspects of Globalization
Outsourcing, while it provides jobs to a population in one country, takes away those jobs from another country, leaving many without opportunities.
Although different cultures from around the world are able to interact, they begin to meld, and the contours and individuality of each begin to fade.
There may be a greater chance of disease spreading worldwide, as well asinvasive species that could prove devastating in non-native ecosystems.
There is little international regulation, an unfortunate fact that could have dire consequences for the safety of people and the environment.
Large Western-driven organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank make it easy for a developing country to obtain a loan. However, a Western focus is often applied to a non-Western situation, resulting in failed progress.
Economy
Economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents. Understood in its broadest sense, 'The economy is defined as a social domain that emphasizes the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the production, use, and management of resources'. Economic agents can be individuals, businesses, organizations, or governments. Economic transactions occur when two parties agree to the value or price of the transacted good or service, commonly expressed in a certain currency. However, monetary transactions only account for a small part of the economic domain.
Economic activity is spurred by production which uses natural resources, labor, and capital. It has changed over time due totechnology (automation, accelerator of process, reduction of cost functions), innovation (new products, services, processes, new markets, expanding markets, diversification of markets, niche markets, increases revenue functions) such as, that which produces intellectual property and changes in industrial relations (for example, child labor being replaced in some parts of the world withuniversal access to education).
A given economy is the result of a set of processes that involves its culture, values, education, technological evolution, history, social organization, political structure and legal systems, as well as its geography, natural resource endowment, and ecology, as main factors. These factors give context, content, and set the conditions and parameters in which an economy functions. In other words, the economic domain is a social domain of human practices and transactions. It does not stand alone. A market-based economy is where goods and services are produced and exchanged according to demand and supply between participants (economic agents) by barter or a medium of exchange with a credit or debit value accepted within the network, such as a unit of currency.
A command-based economy is where political agents directly control what is produced and how it is sold and distributed.
A green economy is low-carbon, resource efficient, and socially inclusive. In a green economy, growth in income and employment are driven by public and private investments that reduce carbon emissions and pollution, enhance energy and resource efficiency, and prevent the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services.
6. Customs of the people of the Uzbekistan
Customs and traditions of the Uzbek people have been forming for centuries. They are very distinctive, impressive and different, dating back to different epochs and religions. Initial formation of Uzbek culture dates back to the 6th-7th centuries BC, by that time nomadic tribes shifted to a settled way of life in the valleys of Amu Darya, Syr Darya and Zarafshan and founded first states. Former nomads founded settlements and cities, bringing with them customs and traditions based on ancient cults of their ancestors. Territory of modern Uzbekistan, Transoxiana, being parts of ancient states – Khorezm, Sogdiana, Bactria - became the basis for formation of culture, which subsequently became the basis of Uzbek culture.
Over centuries, traditions and customs of Uzbek people remained almost unchanged despite the desire of many invaders to impose alien culture on. The Arabs had the greatest influence on Uzbek customs and traditions, through the expansion of Islam throughout Central Asia. Islam traditions were closely intertwined with pre-Islamic beliefs and traditions, local culture, and firmly settled in the mode and minds of the Uzbek people.
Centuries-old customs and traditions of the Uzbek people are carefully maintained and passed on from generation to generation. Like many Asian nations, most festive Uzbek customs are related with major family celebrations: wedding and birth. These events include many rites and rituals, involving parents, children, brothers, sisters, immediate and remote relatives even neighbors and guests, each one has its own role. Uzbek traditions are based on hospitality, respect for elders, collectivism, manifested especially vividly in makhallasI (Uzbek residential quarters) – repository of age-old national basis.
There is list that shows some uzbek customs and tradions:
Beshik-tui
Khatna-kilish
Engagement
Wedding
Kurash
Morning plov
Hospitality
Traditional clothes
Makhalla
Kupkari
Darboz perfomance
My scientific work
Let me tell some words about my scientific work. I chose my theme about two years ago and now my research area has expanded. I’m researching influence of electronic mass media on human psychic and effects of enormous information influence. I think it is an important problem of modern psychology.The human’s social environment is constantly changing and now one of its defining factors is the impact of the information. The information in various forms surround people. The information pressure especially increased with the spread of electronic mass media,which include, first of all, television and the Internet. What happens to a person in an electronic environment?
What are the changes in the psychic?
is there a deviation from the normal line of personal development?
These are just some of the questions we’re trying to answer.
I must say that this theme is very close to a perspective new area of research such as information ecology.If we talk about the science of the future, I think this trend will receive particular attention.Besides the question of the existence of rights in the information environment, the science looks at ways to limit the influence of information, development ecological relations between human and environment.
Some of my previous articles dealt with this area of psychology ("Factors of development of information addiction","The development of social maturity and information addiction in the young age"). Now I'm going to explore the evironmental factors of electronic information environment and how to develop resistance to the aggressive impact of the information.
The person should have a choice of the information he receives from the outside world. But the man has the S-S relationship with the environment.
It means that he isn’t only recipient, but also an active creator.
A person creates an environmental object, this object turns affects back to him.
Earlier works of art and architecture wereconsidered as such objects, now we can speak about the whole man-madeenvironment, in particular virtual reality.
My work is devoted to studying such factors.
The object of my research is relationship between man and information environment, subject consist changes in human behavior under the influence of quasiecological factors. I think this is the perspective subject area.
The results of my work may be interesting not only for academic scientists, but also for practice specialists: managers, social scientists, IT-professionals.
Customs of the English people
Britain is full of culture and traditions which have been around for hundreds of years. British customs and traditions are famous all over the world. When people think of Britain they often think of people drinking tea, eating fish and chips and wearing bowler hats, but there is more to Britain than just those things. English architecture begins with the architecture of the Anglo-Saxons. At least fifty surviving English churches are of Anglo-Saxon origin, although in some cases the Anglo-Saxon part is small and much-altered. All except one timber church are built of stone or brick, and in some cases show evidence of reused Roman work. The architectural character of Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical buildings ranges from Coptic-influenced architecture in the early period, through Early Christian basilica influenced architecture, to (in the later Anglo-Saxon period) an architecture characterized by pilaster-strips, blank arcading, baluster shafts and triangular-headed openings. Almost no secular work remains above ground.
Following the Norman Conquest Romanesque architecture (known here as Norman architecture) superseded Anglo-Saxon architecture; later there was a period of transition into English Gothic architecture (of which there are three periods, Early English, Decorated, and Perpendicular). In early modern times there was an influence from Renaissance architecture until by the 18th century Gothic forms of architecture had been abandoned and various classical styles were adopted. During the Victorian period Neo-Gothic architecture was preferred for many types of buildings but this did not continue into the 20th century.
Other buildings such as cathedrals and parish churches are associated with a sense of traditional Englishness, as is often the palatial 'stately home'. Many people are interested in the English country house and the rural lifestyle, evidenced by the number of visitors to properties managed by English Heritage and the National Trust.
Landscape gardening as developed by Capability Brown set an international trend for the English garden. Gardening, and visiting gardens, are regarded as typically English pursuits.
English seaside piers Seaside pleasure pier in Brighton. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century
Following the building of the world's first seaside pier in July 1814 in Ryde, Isle of Wight off the south coast of England, the pier became fashionable at seaside resorts in England and Wales during the Victorian era, peaking in the 1860s with 69 being built.Providing a walkway out to sea, the seaside pier is regarded among the finest Victorian architecture, and is an iconic symbol of the British seaside holiday. By 1914, more than 100 piers were located around the UK coast. Today there are approximately 55 seaside piers in the UK.
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