CHAPTER+3+-+Globalization+and+Identity

**What is Globalization?**
====Is when the experience of everyday life is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include smarter and faster ways of communication and transportation technologies and services, mass migration and the movement of peoples, a level of economic activity that has outgrown national markets through industrial combinations and commercial groups that cross national borders, and international agreements that reduce the cost of doing business in foreign countries. Globalization offers huge potential profits to companies and nations but has been complicated by widely differing expectations, standards of living, cultures and values, and legal systems as well as unexpected global effects.====

**Major contributors to Globalization**

 * McDonalds (World Wide Corp.)
 * Burger King (Started as an American Corp. now a Brazilian Billionaire owns a significant share)
 * Microsoft
 * Pepsi (for some countries its cheaper to buy a pepsi then a bottle of water)
 * Samsung
 * Any Cigarette company

**Identity-** a person's conception and expression of their individuality or group affiliations.
====Both of these factors now play a major role in the class room, because globalization has now made multiple different cultures come under one roof to learn. Because now there is the challenge of incorporating all forms of life style with out pushing the buttons of another.====

Andrew Barker