The Geography of Global Processes

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This paper discusses globalization's affects on global divisions between the rich and the poor. In particular, the paper looks at this state of affairs and links it to broader class discussions about spatial interaction, scale, human/nature relationships and "space, place, and landscape." It analyzes the consequences of asymmetric exchanges of investment and people in different parts of the world. The paper focuses its discussion on the situation in Thailand. It contains an annotated bibliography at the end of the paper.

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"The importance of this discussion is really two-fold. On one hand, demographic trends suggest that the Caucasian or "Western" percentage of the world's population will continue to decline relative to its non-white brethren over the next century; as a result, it is imperative that we understand the factors which are creating problems for that ever-growing proportion of the global population that is non-white. Clearly, if it can be proved that globalization benefits affluent (and demographically stagnant) western nations over demographically explosive Asian or South American nations, then the growing cost of this unjust arrangement will eventually cause debilitating political and social upheavals. In a related vein, there is evidence now available that Europe's share of the global market has declined relative to the share of the market enjoyed by China and by India. If this European decline continues, these latter nations may find themselves in the same position that poorer, developing countries found themselves in throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty-first centuries; needless to say, if Europe wishes to be treated humanely by the new "masters of the house", it should endeavor to "smooth out" whatever rough edges of globalization are creating misery and poverty elsewhere."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Buch-Hansen, Mogens. (2003). The territorialization of rural Thailand: between localism, nationalism, and globalism. Journal of Economic & Social Geography, 94(3): 322-334.
• Education in Thailand. (n.d.). Globalization of education in Thailand. Retrieved September 26, 2006, from <http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.bright/globalization_of_education_in_thailand>
• Leightner, Jonathan E. (1999). Globalization and Thailand's Financial Crisis. Journal of Economic Issues, 33(2): 367-73.
• Seong-Won, Park. (1999). Globalization and its consequences. Bangkok 1999. Retrieved September 27, 2006, from <http://warc.ch/pc/bangkok/07.html>

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