Understanding Globalization

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Understanding Globalization
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What are the Links between Colonization and Globalization?
Introduction
There is a similarity in globalization and colonization in one way or the other. However,
the most significant is that both have weak and strong forces dictating how their presence meets
to have resources disproportionately shared. On the same note, there are several kinds of
colonization one of which involves a large group of individuals leaving an overcrowded
geographical location to settle in a far less crowded place (Andreotti & Pashby, 2013, pg. 424).
These Europeans then became New England’s thirteen colonies. However, globalization and
colonization are different as well. For instance, unlike colonization, globalization has insistently
defied the odds of time by defining the present global society and that of the future. It is
symbolized by the availability of a governing body in the form of ‘the United Nations.'
Otherwise, whatever the similarities or differences, globalization is neo-colonialism. Therefore,
this paper will discuss the three evidences portraying the fact that no difference exists between
colonialism in the early days where political supremacy and direct military was enforced on the
weak against the current neocolonialism in which capitalism, multinational corporations, and
cultural forces imposes economic colonialism on countries that are economically inferior (Sabah,
2016).
Discussion
As mentioned in the introduction section, this critical discussion will outline three main
pieces of evidence that support the fact that globalization is, in fact, neo-colonialism in all
contexts. First and foremost, the world as it currently is has witnessed several decolonization and
colonization consequences all of which are associated with enormous social, economic, and

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political outcome both positively and negatively. Colonialism in itself encouraged the growth of
globalization. However, the world vaguely understands the critical aspects of what globalization
is. It is essential to understand the context in which "globalization" as we know, is used. For
instance, by closely examining the context with which decolonization and globalization are used,
it is clear that there is a close association between the two. In whatever way they are employed,
however, the political, economical, or social contexts of “globalization” have the same
framework when soliciting the meaning. However, the political meaning relies on compliance or
concurrences between people to create a universal sense (Antonio, 2010). In the three aspects of
globalization, political, economic, and social, only economic and social context solicit the same
meaning worldwide. Otherwise, the political context of globalization varies worldwide.
Critically speaking, with the political significance of globalization being flexible, a power source
gets created in which the exploitation of ambiguities for political and personal is done. In one
way or the other, language difference is one essential means of critically soliciting the position of
globalization about power structures and actions. It is then clear that globalization as firstly
contended, in whatever language and definition, is a game that involves political supremacy, a
commonality with neocolonialism (Apple, 2004).
As the second piece of evidence, many authors conform to the fact that ‘globalization’ is
a term that is most common with most world politicians in the current global society. It is also
impossible to dispute the famous definition that ‘globalization’ is the outright perception that the
world is evolving into one giant, single society in which the existing social space gets shared by
technological and economic forces (Antonio, 2010). Apart from that, the same definition
suggests that general developments in a given geographical area can in a way or the other;
influence the life outcomes of communities and individuals in another part of the world. On the