Globalisation in Australia
However, many will agree with me that globalisation has come to affect nearly every aspect of daily life, and has a profound effect on the development of the policies which shape our future lives.Globalisation -- perhaps the buzz-word of the nineties -- has come to mean many things to people, and our perspective of what it means is largely influenced by how we are affected. Some view globalisation as removed from human values - a bloodless enterprise, made up of computer blips, stock market figures and sales graphs. One person I asked joked globalisation meant 1950’s lighting. My local Loys soft drink deliverer tells of his fears that Schweppes will be swallowed up by Coca Cola and no more discounts will be available to home deliverers like himself. He sees that globalisation -- once a buzzword used only by politicians and economists -- could intimately affect his life and his ability to bring up his children. People see globalisation like a giant pacman: eating up their familiar brands they took pride in. They went through the angst of losing the corner store thirty years or so ago, now they see they are losing everything that was home grown and familiar in which they had a stake. They feel disenfranchised, angry
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Approximate Word count = 857
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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