Giddens has a number of good points on his opinion of globalization, there are however some flaws.
While Giddens makes reference to the skeptics and radicals, his portrayal of each group has some accuracy. There are sociologists that pin globalization as a purely economic influence. While a great influence is placed on the economic aspects, there is more to it than that.
As a political super power of the world, the United States has an impact on other countries. The trade that Giddens makes reference to that occurs through regions is not one hundred percent accurate. The United States trades with countries on every continent, minus Antarctica. The essay may give the reader the impression that globalization is somewhat controlled, this is completely false. Globalization is past the point of anyone controlling or regulating it.
Another fallacy to the view of the radicals and sceptics is the time at which globalization began. Sociologists say globalization is a relatively new trend in the world, developing almost two hundred years ago with the developments of electronic communications systems. Scientists who study the “Out of Africa” theory of migratory evolution believe, with near concrete proof that man evolved and originated in Africa. In correlation with migrating away from Africa, evolutionary trends traveled with these primitive humans as well as prehistoric cultures and behaviors.
On January 15, 2008 there was an article in the New York Times titled, “Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis.” This article lists leading scientific research that says when Columbus came to the New World and then traveled home; his crew transported an early strain of the syphilis virus back to Europe. This being the case, it is proof enough that globalization took place longer ago than sociologists lead us to believe.
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