A World Without Borders Chapter 40

A World Without BordersChapter 40

Before We Get Started:This is it! You have reached the end of the

text!The AP focus for this chapter is global

business, migrations, and culture.These are big issues in the world today and

they are included in the AP Exam.

A Global EconomySince the collapse of the communism in 1990,

a new economic order has been organizing around expansion of trade, global investing, privatization of state economies and deregulation of businesses.

Modern technology in the form of computers, the internet, satellites, fiber optics and semiconductors have eliminated national borders and made global business possible.

The Global EconomicEconomic Globalization

Free Trade Means that trade occurs without any constraints on it by

border or state-imposed limits. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the World

Trade Organization made free trade possibleGlobal Corporations

Global Corporations replaced multinational corporations where business sites operated under the laws of each country.

Means that a corporation has a small headquarters staff making decision with multiple sites around producing its products

The Global EconomyEconomic Growth in Asia

Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all experienced economic growth following WWII as their lack of natural resources was supplemented by their abundant labor forces.

China eventually joined as well.

The Global EconomyTrading Blocs

Groups of nations have joined together to gain more advantages in the marketplaceThe European Union, North American Free

Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

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European Union Membership

Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Global CommunicationsWhile the fall of the Berlin Wall represents a

specific example of the disappearance of borders, the process started happening long before that with the erasure of cultural borders brought on by television and consumer products like Coca-Cola.

The local traditions of the early twentieth century have been augmented and sometimes replaced by global culture.

Global Barbie (Example)Versions of Barbie appear in different versions all

around the world.

Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Global CommunicationsConsumption and Cultural Interaction

As industrialization mass-produced products in the nineteenth century, consumption increased.

In the latter part of the twentieth century, consumption became cross cultural and went beyond necessities as products became an expression of personality and inclusion in the world cultural scene.

Example People all around the world eat at McDonalds Coca-Cola is an international product

Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Global CommunicationsThe Age of Access

From the nineteenth century’s communications inventions of the telegraph and telephone, the twentieth century had an explosion of communications technology Radio Television Fax Machines Networked Computers Satellite Dishes All changed the way in which the world communicated, but

the cost of the new communication meant that the impoverished regions of the world fell even further behind.

Global ProblemsNations are struggling by themselves or in

partnerships with not-so-new issues such as coerced labor, poverty, epidemic diseases, terrorism, and human rights.

Population Pressures and Environmental DegradationEnormous population increases since the nineteenth

century due to improvements in sanitation, food crops, and disease control are now a large global problem. Puts tremendous pressure on the world’s resources

Global warming and other environmental issues Population control

Example – China has a one-child policy.

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World Population by Region, 1900-2050 (Projected)

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World Population, 1900-2050 (Projected)

Global ProblemsEconomic inequities and Labor Servitude

Developing areas of the globe have appalling rates of poverty where malnutrition and starvation are common.

Labor servitude similar to slavery is a feature of many poor regions Child labor is particularly abusive in south and

southeast AsiaHuman Trafficking

Modern Slavery in which people are bought and sold across international borders and within national borders as well.

Global ProblemsGlobal Diseases

Since the advent of inoculations and antibiotics, it had appeared that the world was on the road to eradication of the diseases that had plagued human society forever.

AIDS Caused by the HIV First observed in 1981 Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa

Tens of Millions of deaths Orphans and social disorder Lack of medicine

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Adults and children estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS as of December 2003

Global ProblemsGlobal Terrorism

Terrorism has been used throughout world history, but in the modern world of swift and easy travel and communications, it has become an international scourge.

Improved weaponry and mass media give terrorists the ability to make a bigger statement with more effect.

During the last decades of the twentieth century, terrorist groups launched global terror campaigns.

International response has been neither coordinated nor effective

Examples of Terrorism 9/11 – al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden

Lead to conflicts and Afghanistan and Iraq Iraq – Contention that Saddam Hussein harbored terrorists and had

amassed nuclear and chemical weapons.

Global ProblemsCoping with Global Problems: International

OrganizationsNongovernmental organizations – Have been

developed to address significant issues that cross borders. Geneva Conventions – Protects the rights of

wounded and prisoners of war. Red Cross – Aid victims of disaster Greenpeace – Environmental group dedicated to

confronting and stopping whalers United Nations

Crossing BoundariesInternational forces have transformed the world’s populations

with greater equality for women and mass migrations of workers. In essence, the boundaries between men and women have been crossed as have traditional national borders.

Women’s Traditions and Feminist ChallengesAfter WWII, the momentum for women’s equality gained speed as

women got increased access to jobs, suffrage, and equal rights.Occurred much faster in industrialized nations than developing

nations but changes have been instituted in most nations.Still significant challenges

Girl infanticide in China Dowry Deaths in India Honor Slayings in some Islamic Societies

Crossing BoundariesMigration – Humans have always migrated, but

around the time of industrialization, demographers have distinguished between tow types of migration, internal migration and external or international migration.Internal Migration – Migrations within national bordersExternal Migration – Migrations across national

bordersPush factors – Lack of resources, overpopulation, and

prejudicePull factors – Abundant natural resources, job openings,

and freedom from oppression.

Crossing BoundariesCross-Cultural Travelers

International tourism Growing for the past century and a half. Tourism is the largest industry on earth employing

over 225 million people.