1. Warm Up – January 4
Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. What is globalization?
2. What innovations in technology have led to increased globalization?
3. What is a company doing in a foreign direct investment?
4. What is a transnational corporation?

2. The Anti-Globalization Movement
Civics and economics
The Anti-Globalization Movement

3. Growth, Instability, and Inequality
Economic globalization increased the gap between the Global North and the Global South
Clear division in the human community = the rich industrialized countries (mostly in Europe and North America) versus everyone else

4. Growth, Instability, and Inequality
This widening gap has been evident in great differences in:
Incomes
Medical care
Availability of clean drinking water
Educational and employment opportunities
Access to the Internet

5. “Anti - Globalization” Movement
Agree that economic globalization has:
Lowered labor standards
Devastated the environment
Prevented poor countries from protecting themselves against financial speculators
Ignored local cultures
Disregarded human rights
Enhanced global inequality
Favored only the interests of large corporations and rich countries – created a rich Global North and a poor Global South
Antiglobalization Activists

6. TOD – January 4
Answer the following questions on the same post it as the warm up:
1. What countries in the world are in the Global North? What countries in the world are in the Global South? Which side benefits the most from Globalization?
2. What are three areas that the gap between the Global North and South is most evident?
3. The Anti-Globalization movement views globalization as a movement that only favors which countries?