Les 8 - Globalization

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Planning

• Google forms assignment
• Globalisation
• Causes of globalisation
• Time for homework

Key words §4.4

Globalization (globalisatie): Process through which regions of the world are connected more and more

Multinational Corporation (MNC) (Multinationale organisatie (MNO)): Large company that has factories and offices in multiple countries

Raw materials (grondstoffen): Unprocessed goods

Semi-finished products (halffabrikaten): Processed resources (between the resource and the product)

Final/finished products (eindproducten): products that are ready and can be sold

Learning goals

• You understand what globalisation is
• You understand the things that have caused globalization to occur

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Make the assignment

Globalization

Globalization (globalisatie): Process through which regions of the world are connected more and more

What thing has made globalization go really fast in the last few years?

Causes of globalization

• More Multinational corporations (MNC's)
• More open borders
• Phones and the internet

Multinational corporation (MNC)

Multinational Corporation (MNC) (Multinationale organisatie (MNO)): Large company that has factories and offices in multiple countries

Open borders

• Quicker travel in the EU
• After the Brexit going to the UK takes 45 minutes extra
• So before the open borders in the EU going to Pula, Croatia would take 3 hours and 45 minutes extra

Phones and the internet

Previously messages took a long time

5 - 10 weeks

Phones and the internet

Nowadays mail is a lot faster

4 - 8 dagen

Phones and the internet

But phones and the internet go the fastest

Almost instant

Many people say: "The world has become smaller in the last 100 years". What does this have to do with globalization?

The world has become smaller

• Communication is almost instant
• Travel has become quicker
• The world has become more interconnected

Homework