Week Six: Globalization
The lesson: The pro’s and con’s of globalization
We started with a lesson on the definition of Globalization:
Globalization describes a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade. The term is sometimes used to refer specifically to economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology. However, globalization is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural, political, and biological factors. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation.
We then talked about some of the changes that have happened in Canada, the US and Mexico due to NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) and discussed what some of the pro’s and con’s are of Globalization are. This brought us to our task. Handout here.
The Task: Debating the Pro’s and Con’s of globalization.
Debating on the side of globalization: Xiao Mei
Debating against globalization: Joyce Hu
Both Xiao Mei and Joyce had 1 hour to prepare 3 arguments each. The debate was structured like this.
1 – Xiao Mei makes argument
2 – Joyce has a turn to rebuttal
3 – Xiao Mei gets 30 seconds to defend her position
After Xiao Mei’s first argument is done, then Joyce gives her first, and the process repeats until all 6 arguments are discussed.
Judging Panel:
Linda Shan: Lawyer, & 2010 Jiahua Business Contest Finalist
Eric Cheng: Jiahua Financial Director
Eric Velouria: Jiahua General Manager
The arguments were made as laid-out here in the chart here.
Both Xiao Mei and Joyce did an excellent job of arguing their points. For the first 2 arguments, increasing unemployment and increasing competitiveness, I found Xia Mei to be the clear winner. She argued her point clearly, and gave an excellent rebuttal to Joyce's unemployment argument. More competition always means more benefits for end users, and globalization clearly increased world employment. Joyce's argument here would work if she mentioned "1st world only" but for every job lost in the West, 2 are gained in the East. At this point Joyce knew she was down, and won the next two arguments. However, Xiao Mei did do a good job in rebutting argument 3 - she mentioned how many global organizations have come into place to try to regulate or monitor habitat destruction (although she did not give any specific names of organizations)
The argument about increased education was clearly won by Xiao Mei, and the argument for risk of greater chances of global financial depression were clearly won by Joyce. At this point, Eric, Linda and I then asked Joyce and Xiao Mei to leave the room, so we can discuss who we shall choose as the winner.
Eric Cheng voted in favor of Xiao Mei. Globalization is inevitable, and he said that Xiao Mei did a good job of "defending the obvious". She was well prepared and confident in her speech.
Linda voted in favor of Joyce. She said that she fought more aggressively, spoke more clearly and defended herself quite well.
I, Eric V, chose Xiao Mei. I felt both did very well, but that Joyce at times got a bit lost on her direction, where as Xiao Mei never was. Even though I believe they both won 3 arguments each, Xiao Mei's wins were less disputable.
Joyce, you did a wonderful job, and we congratulate you on your hard work!!
The finals will be Linda Shan vs. Xiao Mei
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We started with a lesson on the definition of Globalization:
Globalization describes a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of communication, transportation, and trade. The term is sometimes used to refer specifically to economic globalization: the integration of national economies into the international economy through trade, foreign direct investment, capital flows, migration, and the spread of technology. However, globalization is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural, political, and biological factors. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation.
We then talked about some of the changes that have happened in Canada, the US and Mexico due to NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) and discussed what some of the pro’s and con’s are of Globalization are. This brought us to our task. Handout here.
The Task: Debating the Pro’s and Con’s of globalization.
Debating on the side of globalization: Xiao Mei
Debating against globalization: Joyce Hu
Both Xiao Mei and Joyce had 1 hour to prepare 3 arguments each. The debate was structured like this.
1 – Xiao Mei makes argument
2 – Joyce has a turn to rebuttal
3 – Xiao Mei gets 30 seconds to defend her position
After Xiao Mei’s first argument is done, then Joyce gives her first, and the process repeats until all 6 arguments are discussed.
Judging Panel:
Linda Shan: Lawyer, & 2010 Jiahua Business Contest Finalist
Eric Cheng: Jiahua Financial Director
Eric Velouria: Jiahua General Manager
The arguments were made as laid-out here in the chart here.
Both Xiao Mei and Joyce did an excellent job of arguing their points. For the first 2 arguments, increasing unemployment and increasing competitiveness, I found Xia Mei to be the clear winner. She argued her point clearly, and gave an excellent rebuttal to Joyce's unemployment argument. More competition always means more benefits for end users, and globalization clearly increased world employment. Joyce's argument here would work if she mentioned "1st world only" but for every job lost in the West, 2 are gained in the East. At this point Joyce knew she was down, and won the next two arguments. However, Xiao Mei did do a good job in rebutting argument 3 - she mentioned how many global organizations have come into place to try to regulate or monitor habitat destruction (although she did not give any specific names of organizations)
The argument about increased education was clearly won by Xiao Mei, and the argument for risk of greater chances of global financial depression were clearly won by Joyce. At this point, Eric, Linda and I then asked Joyce and Xiao Mei to leave the room, so we can discuss who we shall choose as the winner.
Eric Cheng voted in favor of Xiao Mei. Globalization is inevitable, and he said that Xiao Mei did a good job of "defending the obvious". She was well prepared and confident in her speech.
Linda voted in favor of Joyce. She said that she fought more aggressively, spoke more clearly and defended herself quite well.
I, Eric V, chose Xiao Mei. I felt both did very well, but that Joyce at times got a bit lost on her direction, where as Xiao Mei never was. Even though I believe they both won 3 arguments each, Xiao Mei's wins were less disputable.
Joyce, you did a wonderful job, and we congratulate you on your hard work!!
The finals will be Linda Shan vs. Xiao Mei
Click here to go back to the Business Contest
Comment
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Comment by linda shan on October 10, 2010 at 10:34pm -
I am very glad that MJ won this debate even I voted for Joyce here. I had some problem in catching what they were talking, so I could focus on their argument points and speaking tone:(
As each only had 3 points to establish their opinion, I thought the conservative way was to use the information Eric shared at the begging, but as I talked with MJ during their preparation time, I said that the best way was to think more than economy, because in this field I do not think that it will establish a very good position for it. We found there were more negative opinions against it. But, economy is only part of globalization, culture, technology and cooperation are also developing fastly with globalization.
Whether am I for or agaist globalization? I would say that I am for globalizaion. I think globalization is not the real reason for the cons we talk. In fact, when Joyce and MJ was debating, there was a voice in my brain keeping saying that it is not just because of globalization, mechanizaiton and modernization also cause that.
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