Warm Up – January 4 Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up: 1. What is globalization? 2. What innovations in technology have led to increased globalization? 3. What is a company doing in a foreign direct investment? 4. What is a transnational corporation?

The Anti-Globalization Movement Civics and economics The Anti-Globalization Movement

Growth, Instability, and Inequality Economic globalization increased the gap between the Global North and the Global South Clear division in the human community = the rich industrialized countries (mostly in Europe and North America) versus everyone else

Growth, Instability, and Inequality This widening gap has been evident in great differences in: Incomes Medical care Availability of clean drinking water Educational and employment opportunities Access to the Internet

“Anti - Globalization” Movement Agree that economic globalization has: Lowered labor standards Devastated the environment Prevented poor countries from protecting themselves against financial speculators Ignored local cultures Disregarded human rights Enhanced global inequality Favored only the interests of large corporations and rich countries – created a rich Global North and a poor Global South Antiglobalization Activists

TOD – January 4 Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up: 1. What countries in the world are in the Global North? What countries in the world are in the Global South? Which side benefits the most from Globalization? 2. What are three areas that the gap between the Global North and South is most evident? 3. The Anti-Globalization movement views globalization as a movement that only favors which countries?