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=Dividends Emerge in Pressing Apple Over Working Conditions in China = 3.7.12

**Summary**:  There are busts happening, and that iPhone 4 that you just bought, might have been something made by a child in China, working in sweatshops for a mere $10 a day. There are a bunch of protests going on about it, meanwhile Apple is just trying to keep everything on the down low. Apple is an American business that has went through globalization and is affecting China. The article talked about how this situation relates to the Nike scandal, and they’re bringing more light and attention to the matter now. They just want people to feel okay about where their iPhones are coming from. They aren’t really doing much, but in 2005, they made a code of conduct that their suppliers need to fulfill. That doesn’t necessarily mean that most countries follow this. This is an example of globalization’s negative impact on other countries.  The term “globalization” was first coined in the 1930’s when it was used in a publication. The word didn’t start getting popular until the 1960’s. Essentially, globalization is making our Earth go flat. Not in a literal sense, but you figure: there used to be a lot of individual cultures and a lot of different points of views when it came to things. Not everything used to be at the click of a button. Now that information can be spread as fast as it happens, it almost completely destroys the point of folk tales and urban legends. The stories of how the earth came to be, passed down from many generations, is now replaced with the Internet (“Globalization”).  Most countries think of the word “Globalization” means “Americanization” because we usually have the “best” when it comes to technology and customs. American things are going to Asia and becoming rather popular, but with Asia, America doesn’t really much pick up their culture. The world is pretty much becoming one big America (Forbes). Globalization started happening in the 1970’s and the 1980’s because technology, communications, and the desire to trade in America has been at an increase (Topic). There are a lot of disbelievers in the concept because of all of the culture that is being destroyed because of it; yet there are a lot of people who firmly believe in it because of it has increased trade and chances for economic advancement. It was mostly after the recession that happened in 2007, that people became more likely to support globalization; and that might have happened because Americans think that to get out of the predicament that we’re in, we have to have increased trade and communications with any country we want to get to their resources (“Globalization”). The article __Dividends Emerge in Pressing Apple Over Working Conditions in China__ is relevant to the theme of globalization because America was the first one to come up with the Apple company. Because of communications with China, we were able to move the company abroad for more attention and a gain of consumers. Apple is one of the leading reasons why the Earth is “becoming more flat” considering that it’s a major communications company that supplies a lot of information to anyone with access. With something like an Apple iPad, if you were some culture that hadn’t been westernized, you could easily just use a website like Google, and find out that your tradition is wrong, and there’s actually a world outside of what you see. Apple is essentially the symbol for globalization nowadays, and they really don’t leave anything to the imagination when it comes to the accessable information, essentially making communications better as well as destroying culture.  1. Why do you believe that the Apple company has become more successful/controversial than any of the other electronic companies, such as Microsoft?  2. Do you think that the world could essentially just be “one big America” one day with all of the knowledge that mainly anyone could have access to?  3. Could China maybe become the new country to be modeled after? Meaning, could China be more developed in communications than us in the future?
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Porter, Eduardo. "Dividends Emerge in Pressing Apple Over Working Conditions in China." CNN. 6 Mar. 2012. Web. 12 Mar. 2012. <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/business/dividends-emerge-in-pressing-apple-over-working-conditions-in-china.html?_r=1&sq=globalization&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=2&adxnnlx=1331219878-Bjn1OXJd4Ek+u4p0hnvr8Q>.

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