Globalization

ENCOUNTERING GLOBALIZATION = 40 points

This project allows you to examine your daily life and assess how it is being shaped by connections with the world beyond the United States and by processes of globalization. The project has several parts. Be sure to turn in ALL of the relevant material when you hand in your work in class on the due date! (Due date is September 22)

PART A. Data Gathering (5 points)

Take the next 7-10 days to collect information that documents your connections with regions outside of the United States. Be creative in rooting out evidence and attempt to include a variety of items from various world regions. Numbers are not as important as originality. Record your encounters in the spaces below:

Food (items you may eat, places you may eat, have on the shelf, or see at the local grocery store):

Item Country of Origin

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Clothing (check your labels: origins of clothing you may own, friends may own, or see at local clothing stores):

Item Country of Origin

Cars (cars you or your family own, your friends own, you see in local parking lots):

Item Country of Origin

Entertainment and Media (films you watch, television series/programs set or produced outside the US, novels you read, music you listen to)

Entertainment Feature Country of Origin or Connection

Web Sites (online places you might regularly “visit” that are outside of the US and/or have extensive “global content”—could be related to school, work, leisure activities)

Web Address Country of Origin/Global Emphasis

Sporting Goods and Other Stuff (found in your dorm room, apartment, or household):

Item Country of Origin

People/Social Media (foreign friends, students, Facebook friends abroad; people you encounter during the data collection):

PERSON Country of Origin

Miscellaneous (include any other links not classifiable above):

Item Country of Origin

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Introduction

This school year has helped me draw my perspectives approximately how the sector round me functions. Way to this newfound expertise, I now see how the smallest things make the sector turn. Globalization in a extensive feel is the manner or methods that boom the motion of human beings, subculture, generation, ideologies and records across the world. From the songs we pay attention at the radio to a number of the maximum famous films and novels accessible, fashion, technology, emigration from one America. To every other—all must do with globalization and the spread of affects at some point of the world.

With my research, I find my global connection very strange. The way I thought………………..

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