Globalization: A New Form of Colonization – Part Two

Globalization: A New Form of Colonization – Part Two 

Continued from the previous part …

It is a leading edge of economic globalization in the sense that increasing foreign ownership of products may give those companies direct influence over livelihoods and production of the local inhabitants. The implications of foreign ownership of production
may include both positive and negative elements, depending on the perspective of the observer. Foreign investment has often been an important avenue for the transfer of skills and technology. At the same time, foreign investment puts workers under foreign
control, and leads to foreign appropriation of profits.

In my opinion, the biggest negative of globalization is that it is badly hurting the different cultures around the world. Like in our own culture, the youth of Pakistan is looking towards the west in every aspect of life no matter if it’s about clothing,
food mannerisms or music. In short we can say that the whole world is moving towards having a same sort of a culture which is actually western based. Now the question arises that how America or the west is able to impose their culture so strongly on the rest
of the world? Without doubt they are able to control the world because of their strong media which is influencing the rest of the world. Hence, we can say that we are living in an era of cultural imperialism.

Unfortunately most of us also see the current world picture from the eyes of the American government. They are able to portray whatever they want to just because of the un-even flow of information, which can also be called ‘vertical flow of information’.
We all know what is going on in America or what is the point of view of an ordinary American citizen regarding a major issue; however they just get to know what the media wants them to know. Unfortunately, the masses in the US do not understand the ground
realities of the countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran or Pakistan for that matter. This is the reason why the establishment of the US is able to manipulate the policies as per its interest.  

I have some American friends and I strongly feel that the American people are very good by nature but they are not aware of the actual facts, which are actually not communicated to them for some reason. Before they met me, some of my American friends thought
that Pakistan is a country where people live in caves and they just produce terrorists, which is quite ironic. I think it would not have been possible for America to impose the war on terror to the rest of the world if there was an even flow of communication
and information.

The matter of fact is that all the news and information is coming from the US to the third world countries but the information from the smaller countries does not properly travel to the US.

To be continued …

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