In five pages corporate globalization and its effects on African Americans are discussed in terms of various social and political implications. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography.
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we live on seem smaller as borders and boundaries are crossed. These realities have many implications for many different people, not the least of which is perhaps the African American.
In the following paper we examine the economic and social implications of globalization as it involves corporations. The paper then examines how these implications may affect that African Americans.
Economic and Social Implications Many believe that "Our world is getting meaner and as we reach the new millennium, ideas about collective ways of solving social problems have lost ground
to arguments that the rules of competition are inevitable in the face of globalization. The apparent inevitability of a meaner world is reinforced by the remarkable ideological convergence of
political and economic institutions around the world" (Cohen et al., 2000; womenstrat1.html). It seems that in times past there was an accepted norm of diversity. With globalization there is a
sense of uniformity that allows for little deviancy. "Globalization has become a metaphor for the conditioning framework which shapes and standardizes our choices. It entrenches corporate values
at the epicenter of our society, and it does this through the international and national structures which facilitate the mobility of capital and speculative finance. Globalization provides a view of
the world in which the interests of the powerful are defined as necessity, while the demands of the poor appear as greed which undermines economic success" (Cohen et al., 2000;
womenstrat1.html). Despite the fact that the world is made smaller through international corporate involvement, "The main point to understand from this is that the international economy has been designed
with these giant players in mind and the new rules for action accommodate their best interests" (Cohen et al., 2000; womenstrat1.html). As for the corporations themselves, it is believed that