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I think globalization is inevitable, but it would be hard to say whether or not it is entirely good or bad. Perhaps a little of both.

Wow! this is an important issue with many sides. I have many different opinions, but I would love to read this book.

What exactly is globalization? Is it selling books to Zimbadwe on ebay? is it factories relocating to China? Is it the need to become more creative in creating wealth in our own back yards.

I assign many McGraw Hill books in my English classes already. This might be an important read and certainly I want to look at the issue from every angle.

Globalization is not necessarily a good or bad force but an entity that had been brewing for a long time. Now it is about to explode and invade us whether we like it or not, whether we are prepared, or whether we even are aware of it.

Many will need to read this book...I certainly would love to.

I think Globalization is a very bad thing. There is no self sustaining local economy whatsoever in our area any longer. It all started with local factories starting to make products to sell and ship to China, Mexico, etc. and it ended with those same factories eventually building plants in China, Mexico, etc. When they built those factories, they turned the tables and started making OUR products overseas to utilize the cheap labor (in turn closing down or extremely downsizing the factory here in the U.S.). It's pretty hard to condense what I'm trying to say in just a few sentences...hopefully, you get where I'm coming from. I would love to check this book out and give it a review.

Please include my name in the list of potential reviewers. I would like to see this presentation to clarify my views which are not solidly placed in either camp at the moment. Having been a teacher and social studies person, I am always interested in trying to see how each facet contributes or decimates the whole when it comes into its own "spotlight," so to speak.

A very important issue. I believe that it is inevitable we are going to lose our economic standing with the way things are going. Its effects will be far reaching. I would love to review the book!

This is a fascinating issue! I would love to read this book so I can become more informed.

To me Globialization is a force for good
Soince globalization is a wide-scale experiment with free-market capitalism--that is, trying to give the rough-and-tumble effects of supply and demand between countries more power than the impulse to regulate them.

What we don't appreciate as a society is the extent to which our standard of living depends on globalization!!!!!

Because of globalization, all of us in America in particular have more career options in more new industries than would have been conceivable even 30 years ago. Affordable prices for goods such as food and electronics, and more choices in these goods, are the result of increased trade.

Globalization also helps save the environment. U.S. environmental groups have teamed up with U.S. corporations such as Ford and Anheuser-Busch, Brazilian companies, and the Brazilian government to save what remains of the Atlantic rain forest in southern Bahia, Brazil. By creating an ecopark in the remaining forest, the group helped create tourism jobs for nearby townspeople who had previously logged the forest as their only source of income. It also worked with local farmers to cultivate shade crops such as cocoa and coffee.

Like anything else in life, the success or failure of globalization will depend on its implementation. One thing we can be certain of, however. Globalization is the future, and how we are able to control that future will depend on what measures we take to have it serve us rather than let it consume us.

No doubt globalization will be a more difficult pill for the West to swallow. We are used to being at the top of the economic food chain. The United States can no longer afford to be xenophobic or self-centered. With increasingly globalization, we are forced to confront our own good luck and overuse of the world's resources.

This book is sure to provoke debate, and I would love to add my voice (ie, review) to the discussion.

This sounds like a very interesting book. Thanks for allowing Gather readers a chance to review it!

I'd love to read and review this upcoming book, what an interesting, timely topic!

Globalization is here. I think I am still ambiguous about whether it will be good or not. There is a shift of power and wealth going on in the world. There will be more shifts and rifts in wealth and economy as globalization gains momentum.

Everyday Americans may not all be ready to accept the fact that the US will not maintain super power status, but they do see their wealth eroding and feel threatened.
American corporations and business community have long since recognized and embraced globalization.

In a sense it has and will continue to force us to share wealth and resources and globally address how we use our resources. The actions of newly emerging powerhouses like China and India and in the future some African nations will impact us.

I think it is up to us to hold our own and to remain a player in the new global economy. It's never fun to be knocked off your pedestal, but we can get up and dust ourselves off and stand up proudly right alongside those new powerhouses, because we are still a player.
We're just not the only game in town any more.

Sounds fascinating but I wouldn't have time to review it by then.

It is great that someone will get to read it, though. I might buy a personal copy :)

An important issue affecting all of us. I would love to review this book!

I think that globalization is a very big part of our reality in this day and age. The world is slowly being drawn into it. I think there are both good and bad points to it though. We are all so very different and to bring us to the same economic growth as well as prosperity is yet to be proved.

Globalization, I think is a good thing. The problem is when you live in a rich country, some of our wealth will go away... we'll have to live with less. I'm ok with it and I am trying to prepare my children by teaching them how to do things the old fashioned way. Especially preparing foods, no cans, more raw beans and veggies.

A percentage of their clothes are hand me downs, we could afford to buy them new, but I know the time is coming when they will have to do with less and I'm ok with it.

As a child I traveled to Brazil... most of my family is middle class there, but one uncle chose to keep his family in the boonies. Some of their neighbors had absolutely nothing, they'd invite me to eat with them and have to borrow an extra fork from a neighbor. They had what they needed on a regular basis and no more yet I would call them rich. I think the US and other countries need to realize that they may gain something more than monetary, like how to live off the land and faith.

So, back to the point, I think globalization is in our best interest. If there are poor disgruntled people aren't they more likely to become enemies? there's enough for lots of people to get some, not all, but some.

I don't think globalization is a force for good or for bad. I don't even think globalization is a single thing that can be viewed in those terms. Steingart's book sounds interesting (and more than a little disturbing, and I'd very much like to read and review it

great topic

Conceptually I think globalization was sold to us as a good idea: we would have access to more markets for trade, which would help our economy and give us access to cheaper goods. However, big picture, I think it has had a negative effect. We have out-sourced more and more of our jobs overseas and our trade defecit is increasing. Due to the out-sourced industries, other countries are now becoming industrialized and westernized and competing with us for energy and food, driving up those costs. We have outsourced our food production, displacing local food production in those countries and leading to food shortages for their own people because what is grown is exported to the US at high energy costs and where much of it will likely be tossed into the garbage. Everywhere I look I see negative impacts as a result of globalization.

It is inevitable but can be both good or bad.

Wow, I had not thought about this topic for a long time now. While being under so much stress with the Motgage problems, Social Security issues, electricity issues, job problems, etc. but I just stoped to think about it and I think globalization is the problem behind all of my personal issues. I could be wrong, but it seems as though certain companies and people are taking over our Country (possibly the World) and I did not even notice. I am not totally sure I understand "globalization" I would be very interested in reading your book and coming to my own understanding of it and how it will effect my family. Thanks.

globalization is neither good nor bad. It is a process that will create a new world economic balance based on technology. We can try and fight it, but it won't help, it is coming. The best situation is to try understand the impact on individuals and the nation and form a plan how to prosper in this brave new world.

Sounds like an interesting read.

In a perfect world globalization could be a good thing if "Free Trade" were allowed to work as intended. It would force competition between suppliers producing similar items. Cost and quality would be decided by the consumer, not corporations deciding what should be made available, sub-standard or not and at what price.

Unfortunately, the playing fields aren't level from country to country. Safety regulations, labor and content laws are all different, some are enforced while others are not. Plus, there are too many deep pocketed special interest groups able to manipulate the global market and economy.

After 25 years in the in automotive industry, I was able to witness first hand what forced globalization can do to an entire industry. In my personal opinion since the rules of the game aren't equal, globalization at this time is not good for the United States.

Globalization is a process of bringing about homogenization of our societies to the time described in the Bible – as Babel. This will result in the creation of a one World order resulting in the ultimate rebellion against God the creator of all things (in the form of abuse of all good things known to mankind). The process has accelerated in the past decades. Enormous transfer of people, wealth, knowledge, culture and religious systems will take place.

It is inevitable and foretold for the ones who care to know. As with any major changes there will be winners and losers. Survival will depend on humility, closeness to your family and Church (I simply mean the spiritual body of believers in Christ as our savior – no religion). Also, start downsizing your economic life style, consume less – simply put live within your means however meager it gets.

In my opinion, Globalization is a ''bad'' thing. The consequence has already brought ''down'' the economic health of America. It pits the American worker and environmental standards, against 3rd world countries that do ''not'' have these same standards. Competition between us and the rest of the world is harming the American dream.

Not only do these things present problems for the United States, but we have yet to feel the ''real'' consequence of globalization. We have started to feel its other disadvantages, like food shortages, and higher food and fuel prices, but the most devastating scenario is yet to come. Famine, disease, starvation and mass death from these plagues. It is only a mater of time that we start seeing thing like Ebola, Dengue Fever, Cholera, Hantavirus , and other such diseases in epidemic proportions in America, being brought here by unsuspecting products and people. Globalization doesn't only mean the good things will end up here. We will import the bad too.

It is a very important issue, and one we have had little time, as the American public to really study. Everything changes is true, but I do not feel this is a good thing. Too many jobs gone, and what do have to show for it? We have lost clout in many markets, and have contributed to the construction of others in many countries. Where are those benefits for us?

I would truly enjoy an informed opinion on this topic. And better still I would like to relate my feelings on this, as it will affect many, and generations to come. Ellen B

I personally have little to no faith that this world as we know it will do anything but become ever more polarized between the filthy rich few that are already in control and forcing the globalization under their terms, with the majority being effectively their slaves on the bottom.

Theirs is a dualistic process of winners/losers, the rich/poor, and them calling the shots. Already they have plans for the US, Canada, and Mexico (as a beginning) to unite as a single business entity to do battle with the EU ... all of that as part of the master plan of the old story of "Divide and Control" ... pitting the peoples against one another in a form of competition with some nationalism called patriotism imposed while the strings of all below are being pulled by the few at the top of the secret hierarchy that prosper due to the interchanges they have arranged.

That all being a part of the master plan laid out ages ago and followed patiently to this very day with lying, trickery and conspiracy beyond the imagination of most folks who have been brainwashed to deny any mention of it, and them encouraged to apologetically shame anyone that does, by supposed peer pressure.

A good read through the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion will show that hidden blueprint for such control. Take the mention of Jews (as the red herring used to justify calling it a forgery) out of the issue and leave in the Zionists, and you will have an accurate picture ...

The fate of this world as prophesied forever is at stake here, the control by an uncaring greedy evil that seeks to remain in charge with false promises ... relative poverty and social enslavement for most all ... OR ... gaining some spiritual insight to make your personal connection to a generic God that will direct you on the best path for an eternal future NOT relying on this world materialistic trend mentioned ...

Naturally you would NOT select me for a review because I tell the truth as I have come to see it, besides, I am always too busy here on Gather telling others what I know anyway, to have the time to read it ... if it is being published by a major publisher such as McGraw Hill, then they have probably already been bought out by those "controllers" any way, along with our entire main stream media, all which is tightly controlled to perpetuate the farce at our expense ... the
"game" is highly "rigged" and I reject the whole farcical scenario ...

Good Luck Heather.

I see Rose is going to be reviewing this. She is one of my favorite people on Gather. I am eager to see her review :)

oh wish I had seen this earlier. I think the unions have sucked the life out of Canada and the US. I know they were necessary for a long time , but they have gone over board, and so have our companies (over board as in gone to other countries )