By: Andrea Jaramillo.

Globalization, a good view closer to reality.

Globalization is turning the world into an integrated economy of technological
connection. In order to be a process that have never happened before in human
history by creating wealth across international frontiers of open markets. This new
way of managing the economy through technological means has helped lift more
people out of poverty than ever before because globalization offers global solutions
in education, food, work, medicine, business, flow of goods and people, distance,
etc. However, not everything is beneficial; therefore, we will find positive and
negative aspects of globalization and my contrast about it.
In addition to positive aspects, to poorer countries globalization brings the
opportunity to sell their work at low costs for world markets. Consequently, it brings
the investment that creates jobs, and those pay less than in rich economies.
Moreover, to people in richer countries globalization brings lower cost goods from
abroad, which let them enjoy a higher standard of living. Also in developing
countries, it brings chances for productive investment in multinational. Besides
globalization has awakened in less developed countries, hunger for knowledge by
internet connection that it has given to places with difficult access. It has enabled
education or work remotely by platforms, which they just need a computer and
internet. It also has encouraged the creation of mobile applications that they
provide solutions to populations. In addition, it has enabled monitor health services
to the collection and visualization of information in real time. So globalization has
benefited economy, health, education, engineering, employment and all areas
involved.
Not as positive as you can imagine, there are some negative aspects. In rich
countries, those adversely affected by the global exchanges are the people who
fired by the cheaper alternatives from abroad. They need to find new jobs or to do
work that adds higher value because competition forces companies to become
more efficient and to use resources more efficiently. In opposite, to poor countries
we can find workers exploited by long hours of labor in exchange for a salary that
is not representative of the given effort. Another bad side would be uncertainty of

degree integration for small national markets if they were not prepared for world
markets. Furthermore, the integration of the world economy has brought an
interdependence among countries and we do not know how well or bad it is
because negotiations could manipulate to obtain benefits according to the
intentions of each country and this can lead to armed conflict. Alternatively, if one
country collapses, the collapse is likely to ripple through the system, pulling many
other countries with it.
According to my opinion, either way, we can not close to the evolution of the
economy; we should face change with an education that is updated and timely
response about globalization. If we are a country with less development, we need
to adapt and look as the jump is used to hop higher than developed countries. For
example, they want us as their workers, so we should seek business ideas to make
us indispensable and finish with bad salaries. Finally, I can say that globalization
for me has more positive than negative aspects. Only it is about learning to
negotiate the negative side of the coin and think beyond cute painting of
negotiations. Then, areas as economy, engineering, health, education and
employment will be just the beginning of the good impact of globalization.
Colombia could be the globalization, and we have everything except the conviction
to believe it, we could turn the interdependence in dependence on Colombia.
Millionaires arise from gaps on their way, so we can be a millionaire country, but we
are the citizens and we are who make it possible, we only need to read more and
chat less to take advantage smartly of globalization.