Awareness about the cultures of

others
by travelling around the world
by being in touch with people across

the world through the internet

Exchange of information and

collaboration
Internet enables free
exchange of
information and helps
to work together across
borders and cultures so
business can grow.

By sharing of
knowledge,
skills and
expertise.

Improve in standard of living

Because increase in
economic activity such as
trade and investment.
Governments able to
improve education,
healthcare, housing and
transportation and as a
result improves in the quality
of life for many citizens.

More job opportunities

Workers are able to move across

borders to search for job opportunities

and higher standard of living.

 For example, more than 150 million

people around the world live outside

their country of birth to find jobs that
they may not have in their own
country.

Global security
Globalisation helps governments and

army and police forces in countries

around the world cooperate closely to
fight international crimes such as piracy
and terrorism and makes the world a
safer place to live in.

Health security
Globalisation helps health agencies

around the world to work closely with

each other whenever disease epidemics
like SARS or H1N1.

 Exchange of information enables

countries across the world to prevent

and manage the outbreak of such
illness that could lead to many deaths.

Environmental management and

eco-tourism
More people being aware of

environmental and sustainable issues

such as deforestation, climate change
and global warming.

 Environmental awareness and

international cooperation will work

together to solve these problems. For
example The Heart of Borneo Project.

Alternative energy
Sharing technology to search for and

make use of alternative sources of

energy. For example, in Southeast
Asia, the use of solar and wind power.

Loss of local culture and sense of

belongings
Because easy to get access to the latest

video, music, fashion and popular

culture.

 Chasing latest global trends which

can take over local culture and

traditions and can lead to loss of local
traditions, culture, beliefs and
languages if people do not keep them
alive.

Growing consumerism and materialism

People see it as more
and more important to
buy what is advertised
as status symbols.

 People measure themselves on how

many things they have and the latest

items they owned.

Growing gap between rich and poor

Widened the gap between developing

and developed countries.

 Some multinational corporations make use

the gap by setting up businesses in

developing countries where they can take
advantage of cheap, low-skilled workers.
They work long hours and get low salaries.

This businesses are called sweat shops.

Disease epidemics
Because people travelling around the

world makes difficult to manage health

problem such as AIDS or H1N1 or SARS
disease outbreak which spread very
quickly across vast distance because of
close and regular contact between people.

Deforestation
Because more areas need to
be developed for industries,
agriculture, housing and
transportation.
Rainforests are seen as a
cheap source of land.

 More natural disasters such as

landslides and floods.

Global warming and climate change

increase in economic activity cause

car fumes, factory smog in which

releasing large amount of
greenhouse gases such as carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere.
Industralised countries responsible

80% of carbon dioxide emissions in

the world and this is affecting the
environment.