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IB Geography
Global
Interactions
Chapter 1: Global
Participation
1 Globalisation
1.1 The growing interdependence of countries
worldwide through the increasing volume
and variety of cross border transactions in
goods and services and of international
capital flows, and through the more rapid
and widespread diffusion of technology.
1.2 Dimensions of Globalisation
1.2.1 Economic
1.2.1.1 TNCs Increase the
economic
interdependence and
emergence of different
NICs
1.2.1.2 Many people
feel excluded
from the
benefits of
Globalisation
especially LICs
and poorer
communities
1.2.2 Urban
1.2.2.1 Hierarchy of
Global cities that
act as command
centres of the
global economy
1.2.2.1.1 Competition is intensifiying
1.2.3 Social/Cultural
1.2.3.1 Western culture has
diffused throughout
the world mainly
through TV
1.2.3.2 Not a one way process
though as the influence
on Islam has increased
significantly throughout
the world
1.2.4 Linguistic
1.2.4.1 English is the
"global Villages"
working language
1.2.5 Political
1.2.5.1 EU is the most advanced model
1.2.5.2 World government
1.2.6 Demographic
1.2.6.1 The
amount of
people
moving
across
borders is
increasing.
1.2.6.2 Communities
are becoming
multicultural
in nature
1.2.7 Environmental
1.2.7.1 Globalisation
has casued so
much pollution
that countries
believe only an
international
effort will cure
them
2 Difference between
Internationalism and
Globalisation