Myths about Globalization ??

• Globalization is destroying the environment. Protecting the environment is currently a global matters, that is regularly discussed at a global level through different summits. However, many environmental protectors blame the development of trade and the large companies' activities for the increase of carbon emissions and global warming for instance. Is the globalization really responsible for environmental current issues?
• Globalization is destroying jobs
• Globalization means that multinational corporations make profit at the expense of smaller companies and consumers. Globalization is concentrating most business under the control of a handful of large corporations...NOT true! In fact: "GM, Ford and Toyota control less of the world’s car market today than GM alone controlled in 1950" and "From 1988 to 1998, the top five high-tech companies’ shares of worldwide sales in…computer hardware, computer software and long-distance telephony…actually declined by almost 30 percent"
• Globalization destroys unique cultures and diversity through assimilation...yet another MYTH! It gives cultures that may otherwise be isolated a chance to be shared around the world and offers people in many countries new choices when it comes to food, music, and fashion.