Globalization + Thinking Geographically: From Local to Global

Notes on Globalization 

• At the global scale, encompassing the entire world, geographers tend to see broad patterns. 
• At a local scale, such as an urban neighborhood, geographers tend to see unique features.
• "Think global, act local" means that the environment was being harmed by processes such as global warming that were global in scale. 
• Contemporary geographers offer a different version of the phrase: "Think and act both global and local"
• all scales from local to global are important in geography - the appropriate scale depends on the specific subject
• It can explain human action at all scales, from local to global
• At the national and international scales, geography is concerned with such questions as where the population is growing rapidly, where the followers of different religions live, and where corporations place factories
• Globalization
• a force or process that involves the entire world and results in making something worldwide in scope.
• the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
• a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology
• Means that the scale of the world is shrinking
• not in size but in the ability of a person, object, or idea to interact with a person, object, or idea in another place. 
• People are plugged into a global economy and culture, producing a world that is more uniform, integrated, and interdependent
• The world contains only a handful of individuals who lead such isolated and sheltered lives that they have never watched a television set, used a telephone, or been in a motor vehicle.
•  Even extremely isolated and sheltered people are at least aware of the existence of these important means of connection

Thinking Geographically: From Global to Local

• My Macbook Air
• company: apple
•  Country that Designed them: USA
• Location of Manufacturing: Suzhou China
• My Iphone 7
• Company: Apple
• Designed in: USA
• manufacturing: China
• TV
• company: Samsung 
• Designed in: China
• Manufactured: South Korea
• Ugg Boots
• company: Deckers Brands
• Designed in: USA (Goleta, CA)
• Manufactured in: China for the past 2 years but used to be in Australia and New Zealand