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Trends, Networks and Critical

Thinking in the 21st Century:
Quarter 1 – Module 5:
Interconnectivity
of Country
and the World
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 What I Need to Know

Hello, learners! Let us take a brief pause and think about our life as an
individual and how we lead it in accordance to a given social structure. We are a
being created with susceptibility to the pattern of this world. We are a part of the
whole dimension of human existence. Thus, each of us as a social being cannot live
by ourselves alone for we need to take a part with the intersubjective mode of
mankind within various forms of society. As we continue to exist, we gradually learn
to play significant roles in the communities we live in. These roles are undertaken
from home as a basic unit of the society, then to a bigger community, country and
the world.

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 What I Know

This part of the module will assess your knowledge of the topic that you are
about to learn. You are expected to answer the pre-test carefully. Remember to
observe proper sanitation before and after doing anything.

Test I. Multiple Choice.

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer from the choices given and write
your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. It is a process of increasing interdependence and interaction among people,
companies, and governments of different nations, driven by international
trade and made possible by innovations in information technology.
a. Community b. Globalization c. Institution d. Network
2. Which among the following makes interactions and interdependence among
people, companies and nations possible?
a. Economy c. Innovations in information technology
b. Government d. Technological connections
3. It paved the most expensive yet easiest avenue for economic and political pacts
and contracts.
a. Community b. Communication c. Network d. Organization
4. It is the ability to create, operate, and close an enterprise quickly and easily.
a. Business b. Exportation c. Importation d. Trade
5. A famous organization in Asia, anchored on upholding competitive
interconnectedness, playing an important role in global industrial
production chains in manufacturing and services trade.
a. ASEAN c. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
b. United Nations d. World Bank
6. It is an important factor in understanding the necessary linkage between the
rich and poor countries in relation to most of the necessary materials and
resources for industrialization.
a. Economic Globalization c. Socio-Cultural Globalization
b. Environmental Globalization d. Technological Advancement
7. The contemporary globalization process is of concern to the lives and
interests not only of humankind in general but also of particular individuals,
irrespective of their social or ethnic status.
a. Economic Globalization c. Technological Globalization
b. Environmental Globalization d. Socio-Cultural Globalization
8. Globalization may be seen as “the process of progressive growth of economic
activities which transcends any kind of geographical order.”
a. Economic Globalization c. Socio-Cultural Globalization
b. Environmental Globalization d. Technological Globalization
9. It is a vital force in the modern form of business globalization.
a. Economic Globalization c. Socio-Cultural Globalization
b. Technological Advancement d. Technological Globalization
10. illustrates an average of 10 freedoms that is considered
important to the development of personal and national prosperity.
a. Index Environmental Freedom c. Index Economic Freedom
b. Index Socio-cultural Freedom d. Index Technological Freedom

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Test II. True or False
Direction: Write T if the statement is correct and F if it is wrong.
1. Globalization allows interconnections among countries in the world.
2. Through globalization, people experience limited movement within and
across territories.
3. The increasing interconnection of countries may actually result to
increased labor migration and loss of local jobs.
4. Due to globalization, we are no longer called local citizens but global
citizens.
5. Although globalization can bring the global progress closer to people, it
might also cause marginalization of countries especially the developing
ones.

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 Lesson

1 Globalization: An Overview

Good day, learner! Our previous topic was able to bring out the best in you,
and that was awesome. I know that you are excited to know more but before going
any further, try to ponder on this, “What makes the world connected?”
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Define globalization; and
2. Compose an essay, expressing your thoughts on the importance and value
using a product of globalization in your daily life.

What’s In
This part of the module will assess your knowledge the previous topic that you
have learned. You are expected to answer the review assessment carefully.
Remember to observe proper sanitation before and after doing anything.

Review
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer from the choices given and
write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.
1. The amount of physical, mental, and social effort used to produce goods and
services in an economy.
a. Labor c. Employee
b. Entrepreneurship d. Investment
2. A type of labor that does not require training
a. Semi-skilled labor c. Contract labor
b. Unskilled labor d. Wage Employees
3. This specifies the work to be produced.
a. Contract c. Employee ID
b. Appointment d. Job description
4. Semi-skilled labor requires some education or .
a. Good personality c. Training
b. Talents d. Face value
5. Workers receive a set of weekly or bi-weekly wage as well as benefits.
a. Contract labor c. Semi-skilled labor
b. Wage Employees d. Unskilled labor

What’s New

Are you ready for the new lesson? You may have heard about the word
“globalization”. Considering the patterns of our daily undertakings today as citizens
of this world, we are actually considered as handmaids to the global network system
or otherwise called as globalization. In this topic we will learn the overview of

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globalization as we connect ourselves to the world. But before that, you have to
answer the activity below. Remember to observe proper sanitation before and after
doing anything.

Activity: A Case Study

Direction: Read the short passage about a brief history of the Coca-Cola Company.
Below is an activity which asks for definite facts about the text. Fill in the blanks
with correct concept and answer the questions that follows. Write your answer on
a separate sheet of paper.
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company was founded in the United States in 1886. The
company set up bottling plants in Canada in 1906. In 1928, it introduced the soft
drink Coca-Cola at the Olympic Games which were held in Amsterdam. In the
1940s, the company began to set up bottling plants in countries around the world.
Coca-Cola is popular because it has been advertised as a brand of soft drink
connected with fun, friends and good times. Its international image was
successfully promoted by a 1971 commercial, where a group of young people from
all over the world gathered on a hilltop in Italy to sing "I'd Like to Buy the World a
Coke." In 1978, the Coca-Cola Company was selected as the only non-Chinese
company allowed to sell packaged cold drinks in the People's Republic of China.
Today, the company produces nearly 400 brands in over 200 countries. More
than 70 percent of the company’s income comes from outside the United States.
Coca-Cola is an extraordinarily successful example of multi-nationalization (. Its
success raises the question of why and how it has been so successful. The multi-
nationalization of the Coca-Cola Company is also often used as an example to
illustrate the concept of economic globalization.
Fill in blanks.

1886 The company was founded in at .

1906 It set up bottling plants in .
1928 The soft drink Coca-Cola was introduced at the in
.
1978 The company was allowed to sell its cold drinks in .
Today It produces nearly brands of drinks in over countries.

Questions to think about:

1. What is globalization?
2. What are the driving forces behind globalization?
3. In what ways do these forces affect the world?

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 What is It

Hello, learners! Let us take a brief pause and think about our life as an
individual and how we lead it in accordance to a given social structure. We are a
being created with susceptibility to the pattern of this world. We are a part of the
whole dimension of human existence. Thus, each of us as a social being cannot live
by ourselves alone for we need to take a part with the intersubjective mode of
mankind within various forms of society. As we continue to exist, we gradually learn
to play significant roles in the communities we live in. These roles are undertaken
from home as a basic unit of the society, then to a bigger community, country and
the world.
The emergence of people groups, organizations, institutions or even
government is a derivative from human’s intrinsic ability to establish relationship
with others covering a broader scale of economic, social, political or cultural trends.
It is from this juncture that the idea of global citizenship is obtained, and any other
enterprise unified under this, merged into the proliferation of the modern information
technologies and enters into the progressive and virtually normative frontier of
globalization.
A. GLOBALIZATION: AN OVERVIEW
Globalization is an umbrella term for a complex series of economic, social,
technological, cultural and political changes across the globe. It is a process of
increasing interdependence and interaction among people, companies, and
governments of different nations, driven by international trade and made possible by
innovations in information technology.

As a theory, globalization seeks to explain the integration of economics and

societies around the world as they knit together by travel, language, values and
ideas, trade, labor and financial flows, communication, and technological
interconnectedness (Wood, 2008). The most powerful among these integrations
involves economy.

What’s More

Activity 1.1 “Who Made This?”

Direction: Look around your household. Using a separate sheet of paper, list down
on Column A a number of products that you can find in your around. This may
include kitchen products, appliances, clothing, beauty care essentials and gadgets.
Read the labels, then on Column B, write the name and place (or country) of
production and or manufacturer. Write your answer on a provided activity sheet.
A B
Product’s Name Place or Country of Production

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 What I Have Learned

Activity 1.2 “Complete My Thoughts”

Congratulations! The previous activities that we had, yielded very nice

results. You are able to define globalization and how it was established. Indeed you
have done a good job in answering Activity 1.1 “Who Made This” by giving the
correct answers.
Now that you have learned from the varied activities given in this module, let
us summarize the lesson by filling in the blanks with the concepts needed in order
to complete the thoughts required in each of the following items. Use the provided
activity sheet for this task.

1. is an umbrella term for a complex series of economic,

social, technological, cultural and political changes across the globe.
2. Globalization is a process of the increasing and
among people, companies, and governments of different
nations.
3. In worldwide interconnectedness, interdependence and interaction among
people, companies, and governments of different nations are primarily
driven by .
4. involves the most powerful influence over the integrative
components knit together to establish globalization.
5. Human, as a cannot live by himself alone for he needs to be
with others in a society.

What I Can Do

Good job, let us put into what you have learned. This is now the gauge of your
learning.

Activity 1.3: “The World at My Fingertips.” Direction: From the picture of a phone
below, name various icons or internet platforms you are personally using and on
the provided activity sheet, explain your reasons for using it through an essay. Use
the title suggested below in developing your composition. Please be guided by the
following questions below and by the rubric for rating which can be found in your
activity sheet.

1. In what activities of my daily life does it become

important or useful to me?
2. How will it help me in shaping my future?
“The World at My Fingertips”

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 Lesson

2 Key Players of Globalization

Good day, learner! Our previous topic was able to bring out the best in you,
and that was awesome. I know that you are excited to know more but before going
further, try to ponder on this, “What makes the world connected?”
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Identify the key players of globalization; and
2. Develop a diagram showing the connection of one country to an
organization.

What’s In

Good job! We are on the second part of our module. Again, don’t’ forget to
wash or sanitize your hands using an alcohol before and after doing things.
In the previous lesson, we talked about the overview of globalization. For
further knowledge, let us do the activity below.

Activity 2.1 “Reach-out; Multiply”

Direction: Complete the bubble map below with terms and information needed
in connection to the concept written in the middle. You may redraw the bubble map
in the provided activity sheet so you can freely write and organize your answer.

Functions of COMMUNICATION
in Globalization

What’s New

How far did you learn from our lesson? We learned that globalization is the
increasing economic, political, cultural, and social interconnections of countries in
the world. In this lesson, we will find out through the activity below about the key
players of globalization.

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Activity 2.2
Direction: Read the plot of the movie “Black Panther” and answer the guide
questions below. Write your answer on the provided activity sheet.

Black Panther
Thousands of years ago, five African tribes war over a meteorite containing the
metal vibranium. One warrior ingests a "heart-shaped herb" affected by the metal and gains
superhuman abilities, becoming the first "Black Panther". He unites all but the Jabari Tribe
to form the nation of Wakanda. Over centuries, the Wakandans use the vibranium to
develop advanced technology and isolate themselves from the world by posing as a Third
World country. In 1992, Wakanda's King T'Chaka visits his brother N'Jobu, who is working
undercover in Oakland, California. T'Chaka accuses N'Jobu of assisting black-market arms
dealer Ulysses Klaue with stealing vibranium from Wakanda. N'Jobu's partner reveals he is
Zuri, another undercover Wakandan, and confirms T'Chaka's suspicions.

In the present day, following T'Chaka's death, his son T'Challa returns to Wakanda to
assume the throne. He and Okoye, the leader of the Dora Milaje regiment, extract T'Challa's
ex-lover Nakia from an undercover assignment so she can attend his coronation ceremony
with his mother Ramonda and younger sister Shuri. At the ceremony, the Jabari Tribe's
leader M'Baku challenges T'Challa for the crown in ritual combat. T'Challa defeats M'Baku
and persuades him to yield rather than die.

When Klaue and his accomplice Erik Stevens steal a Wakandan artifact from a
London museum, T'Challa's friend and Okoye's lover W'Kabi urges him to bring Klaue back
alive. T'Challa, Okoye, and Nakia travel to Busan, South Korea, where Klaue plans to sell the
artifact to CIA agent Everett K. Ross. A firefight erupts and Klaue attempts to flee but is
caught by T'Challa, who reluctantly releases him to Ross' custody. Klaue tells Ross that
Wakanda's international image is a front for a technologically advanced civilization. Erik
attacks and extracts Klaue as Ross is gravely injured protecting Nakia. Rather than pursue
Klaue, T'Challa takes Ross to Wakanda, where their technology can save him.

Meanwhile, Killmonger kills Klaue and takes his body to Wakanda. He is brought
before the tribal elders, revealing his identity to be N'Jadaka and claim to the throne.
Killmonger challenges T'Challa to ritual combat, where he kills Zuri, defeats T'Challa, and
hurls him over a waterfall to his presumed death. Killmonger ingests the heart-shaped herb
and orders the rest incinerated, but Nakia extracts one first. Killmonger, supported by
W'Kabi and his army, prepares to distribute shipments of Wakandan weapons to operatives
around the world.

Nakia, Shuri, Ramonda, and Ross flee to the Jabari Tribe for aid. They find a
comatose T'Challa, rescued by the Jabari in repayment for sparing M'Baku's life. Healed by
Nakia's herb, T'Challa returns to fight Killmonger, who dons his own Black Panther suit.
W'Kabi and his army fight Shuri, Nakia, and the Dora Milaje, while Ross remotely pilots a jet
and shoots down planes carrying the vibranium weapons. M'Baku and the Jabari arrive to
reinforce T'Challa. Confronted by Okoye, W'Kabi and his army stand down. Fighting in
Wakanda's vibranium mine, T'Challa disrupts Killmonger's suit and stabs him. Killmonger
refuses to be healed, choosing to die a free man rather than be incarcerated.

T'Challa establishes an outreach center at the building where N'Jobu died, to be run
by Nakia and Shuri. In a mid-credits scene, T'Challa appears before the United Nations to
reveal Wakanda's true nature to the world. In a post-credits scene, Shuri helps Bucky
Barnes with his recuperation.

Guide Questions:
1. What is the story all about?
2. What happens when there is no unity among tribes or nations?
3. What would a leader do in order to save his nation?

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 4. How do people groups, organizations or countries around the world achieve
peace?
5. Write down the different ways in which people of different culture and
nations unite as one and be considered as a single citizen of the world.

What is It

B. KEY PLAYERS OF GLOBALIZATION

In as much as the different facets of globalization is concerned, economic and

political worldwide networks top among its kinds. Since that the influence of
Globalization runs already for a decade, countries around the world have been on
their top edge in terms of communication.
Communications between countries paved the most expensive yet easiest
avenue for economic and political pacts and contracts. This embody the movement
of trade chains up to unifying political functions of the different countries. Thus, it
diffused disagreements and establish lasting peace among nations in order to
ascertain the survival of humanity in scope of a worldwide multi-cultural society.
Recounting Kenneth Rapoza’s article in Forbes magazine, writer Zhiyin Mai
stresses that The United States of America and The People’s Republic of China are
the key players in the configuration of a solid globalization, economically and
politically.
Let us look at the illustration on how these two countries’ interconnection,
accentuate an impact to globalization in terms of economy.

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Countrie
Neighbori

Import/Export
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CHINA
U.S.
ng

Import/Export
Imp

The products and services of these countries are then exponentially

distributed to their neighboring countries and eventually to every household and
establishment around the world in the mode of importation and exportation.
Another identified key player in global economy are the APEC (Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation) composed of twenty-one member nations furthering free
trade in the different regions of the Asia Pacific; the EU (European Union) of
twenty- seven European states politically and economically unified, with missions
inclusive of peace treaties, unification of monetary and economic system,
promotion of an active trade, environmental, scientific and technological
developments; the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) with ten-
member countries namely Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar,
Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines which upholds competitive
interconnectedness in greater part of Asia and the world.

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 What’s More

Activity 2.3 Concept Web

Direction: What are the driving forces behind the process of globalization? Choose
your answer from the box and fill it in the blank inside the concept web to complete
the thought needed.
mass media international internet economic technological
socio-cultural political nations politicians distances

1. forces: planning by 4. forces: the integration of

2. to break down borders national economies into the
hampering trade so as to increase prosperity 5. economy through trade,
and interdependence among 3. foreign direct investment and capital flows

Globalization

6.forces: the development and growth of international transport and telecommunication shorten the 7._ in the world and pr
8. forces: the
worldwide export of western culture
through the 9.
such as film, radio, television
and the 10.

What I Have Learned

Activity 2.4 Don’t Judge. Know the Issue First!
Direction: Using the table below, list down the social key players and their
contrition in the society.
Key Player Contributions

What I Can Do
Activity 2.5 Part to a Whole
Direction: Construct a spider web diagram, and write the acronym ASEAN in the
middle. Then, fill in the outer parts with names of countries to show the
interconnectedness of the ten-member nations of the above-mentioned
organization. Be creative by drawing a Philippine flag besides the name of our
country. Complete this task on the provided activity sheet.

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 Lesson
Social Impact of
3 Globalization
Good day, learner! Our previous topic was able to bring out the best in you,
and that was awesome. I know that you are excited to know more but before going
further, try to ponder on this, “How does globalization affect the society?.”
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Explore the progress of the social impact of globalization; and
2. Develop analytical skills by completing information in the graphic
organizer.

What’s In

Good job, learner! We are on the third part of our module, again don’t’ forget
to wash your hands or sanitize and use alcohol before and after doing things.
In the previous lesson, we talked about the key players of globalization. For
further knowledge, let us do the activity below.

Review
Activity: Brainstorming
Direction: Recall any words/phrase that can be associated with the term
Globalization. Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

1. 2.
3. 4.
5.

What’s New
Are you ready for the new lesson? In this topic, we will learn how globalization affect
the society.

Direction: Below is an excerpt of the song “Blowin’ In The Wind” . Analyze

its meaning and answer the following questions on a separate sheet.

Blowin’ In The Wind

Bob Dylan
Yes, ‘n’ how many times must a man look up before he can see the sky?
Yes, ‘n’ how many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?
Yes, ‘n’ how many death will it take ‘til he knows that too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind

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 Answer:
1. What is the concept of the song?
2. How is cultural change associated in the song?
3. If you are to change the title of the song, what will it be? Explain.

What Is It

A.SOCIAL IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION

Globalization touches all of us. The pace and consequence of globalization

have implications for every individual, community and nation. It is changing the
lives of people in developed and developing countries, or people living in busy
cities in America, Hongkong or Buenos Aires and even the indigenous people living
in the remote areas of Africa, Latin America or Asia. (Winters 2000)
A.1. ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION

The globalization of economy through trade and new technologies provided the
people of our planet immense benefits and new exciting possibilities. From economic
point of view, globalization may be seen as “the process of progressive growth of
economic activities which transcends any kind of geographical order. The Index
Economic Freedom below will illustrate an average of 10 freedoms that is considered
important to the development of personal and national prosperity. Briefly the ten
indicators of economic freedom are:
Financial Sector:
the relative
Monetary: this indicator combines a measure of price stabilityenness
with anofassessment
ea cog of price controls.
opch
Investment:
Government: includes all government expenditures asuntry’s bankinofsyste
a percentage
d financial anm
GDP and
an assessment
of the free
Government control of financial sector (Banks, Central Bank,flowProperty
etc.). Rights: An of capital,assessment of law
the revenues generated by sa foreign capital.
tate-owned enterprises as
percentage of total government revenue.
Corruption: based on quantitative data that assess the perception of corruption in the

den of government from the revenue side. The variables included are mainly individual and corporate tax rates. including levels of
rnmental legal, jud
goveicial,
and administrative corruption.

Labor: is a composite measure of the

Business: the ability to create, operate, and close enterprise quickly and easily.
Economic ability of workers and businesses to ine.
teract without restriction by the stat
Freedom

A.2. TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT

Technology is the vital force in the modern form of business globalization.

Technology has revolutionized the global economy and has become critical
competitive strategy. It has globalized the world, which drive all the countries to
more ethical standards. Technology revolution is sweeping the globe and the
transition from manual to electronic delivery of services both in public and private

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sector leads to advancement of business community throughout the world.
Globalization has led to new markets and information technology is one of the
technologies fostered to the new market in this increasing competitive world.

A.3. ENVIRONMENTAL GLOBALIZATION

An important factor in understanding the necessary linkage between the rich

and poor countries in relation to global environment problems is the fact that most
of the necessary materials and resources for industrialization of the West as the
turn to 20th century came at the expense of other countries. After the World War II,
the United States and Japan were able to keep their forest well-managed and their
watersheds forested partly because they could rely on wood imported from Southeast
Asia and elsewhere (Goldoftas 2006, p. 210).
A.4. SOCIO-CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION

By the early 21st century, the process of globalization of social relations has
been practically completed in its due form. But with respect to the content, the hu-
mankind is still to become a global community. This assumes serious change in
people's outlook, cultural traditions and values. There is no alternative to the uni-
ted humankind and consequently, for the sake of preservation of the civilization on
the planet there should be established not only common principles and rules of
joint life, but also common responsibilities for every individual.

What’s More

Activity 3.1 Where Did My Money Go?

Direction: Make a budgetary plan given that you are a government employee now
and has an allowance of P2,500 per week and justify if you are
economically/financially dependent or independent by ticking appropriate boxes.
Write your answer in the provided sheets.

Expenditures Amount Remarks

Financially Financially
Dependent Independent
Ex. Food P1,000 √

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 What I Have Learned

Congratulations! Let us wrap up your learnings. Below is an activity that will

assess your understanding about the lesson- Social Impact of Globalization.

Activity 3.2 3-2-1 Assessment

Direction: Use words to fill in the boxes on what you have learned about
Technological Advancement.
Three Things I Learned
1. 2. 3.
Two Things I Want to Learn More About the Topic
1. 2.
One Question I Want to Ask
1.

What I Can Do

Well done, dear student! This is now the gauge of your learnings by answering
the activity below.

Activity 3.3. Improve Your Analytical Thinking Skills: Parts to a Whole

Direction: Identify specific human actions that caused and/or contributed to the
global problems regarding environmental challenges. Supplement your answers by
completing the open-ended statement below each box.
Causes Effects

Human Actions Global Effects

I noticed I noticed_
_ _________________________
_ ________________________________
. __
_. ________________________________

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 Lesson
Growth and Challenges of
4 Globalization
Good day, learner! Our previous topic was able to bring out the best in you,
and that was awesome. I know that you are excited to know more but before going
further, try to ponder on this, “What are the Growth and Challenges of
Globalization?”
After going through this module, you are expected to:
1. Identify the different growth and issues of globalization;
2. Show appreciation of the impact of globalization through creative illustration;
and
3. Develop awareness campaign about challenges of globalization using the
different social media platforms.

What’s In

You did well, learner! We are on the fourth part of our module. Again, don’t
forget to wash your hands or sanitize and use alcohol before and after doing things.
In the previous lesson, we talked about the social impacts of globalization.
To further our knowledge, let us do the activity below.
Explore Global Impacts
Direction: Read the seven (7) events in the table and decide which of the following
aspects of globalization each event illustrates: economic, informational, cultural or
political. The first one has been done for you as an example. Solicit agreement from
your parents or any members of your family in your discussion regarding your
decision.
Aspect of
Events
Globalization
Disneyland, the American themed park, has been set up in Hong Kong,
1 Economic
Japan and France.
The parts of a car come from all over the world: Germany, Japan, Korea etc.
2
and the car is assembled in the U.S.
Businesses are operated with many satellite locations or call centers in other
3 parts of the world to answer questions in another. For example, someone
in India answering a call from the U.S. about a product or service.
The creation of regional forums such as the European Union, Asia-Pacific
Economic Co-operation (APEC), and international organization such as the
4
World Trade Organization and the World Health Organization have set up
new rules and agreements for participating countries to follow.
The spread of language, products, and customs as people are closely
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connected.

Franchises for McDonald's hamburgers, Pizza Hut, Burger King, KFC and
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others carrying U.S. trade names are operating throughout the world.

Cable News Network (CNN), based in the United States, produces 24-hour
7
news broadcasts that can be seen by people around the world.

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 What’s New

Are you ready for the new lesson? In this topic, we will learn how globalization
affect the society.
Activity: “Storming Ideas!”
Direction: Create a concept web the shows the concrete impacts of globalization
based on its different aspects. You may redraw the cloud map on the provided answer
sheet.

What is It
A. GROWTH OF GLOBALIZATION
The birth of globalization brought the nations to the maximum heights of fast
change and development.
GROWTH OF GLOBALIZATION GLOBAL EXPANSION
GLOBALAspects
CORPORATIONS
of
Meaning
Globalization
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
Industrial
GLOBAL MOBILITY The rise and expansion of multinational and
globalization, trans- transnational enterprises.
nationalization
The emergence of worldwide financial markets and
Financial globalization better access to external financing for corporate,
national, and sub-national borrowers.
This refers to the spread of political sphere of
interests to the regions and countries outside the
Political Globalization neighborhood of political (state and non-state) actors
and the potential formation of a global citizen
movement.
Information The increase in information flows between
globalization geographically remote locations.
The growth of cross-cultural contact where people of
Cultural globalization the world get a better understanding and
appreciation of cultural diversity and plurality.
The universal, internationalist impulse that the
world is connected. It embodies cultural diffusion,
Globalism the desire to consume and enjoy foreign products
and ideas, adopt new technologies and practices,
and
participate in “world culture”.
Although globalization improve our lives in many ways especially the key
players, it does bring some challenges as countries start to develop and expand
across borders. Cultural differences create hurdles for countries entering to global
market and necessitate changes to their daily business, political and social
operations, whether it’s employing workers, managing the country or communicating
in different modes of communication and social media platforms to a new and
larger audience – there lie series of problems that confront people and the world as a
whole.

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B. Issues of Globalization
1. Social-Cultural Issues
a. Global Health Crises c. The growing worldwide inequality
b. Managing difference among d. Global changes in culture deeply
multicultural countries affect education policies,
practices, and institutions

2. Economic Issues
a. Competing Regions and Nations c. Increased Migration
b. Economic Exclusions d. Greater competitive pressure of
domestic firms to increase their
productivity

3. Political Issues
a. Rise of New Powers
b. Marginalization
c. Constraint on national/state policy making posed by external demand
from transnational institutions.
d. Growing internationalization of global conflict, crime, terrorism, and
environmental issues, and with an inadequate development of political
institutions to address them.

C. Challenges of Globalization
a. International Recruiting e. Loss of Cultural Identity
b. Managing Employee Migration f. Global Expansion Difficulties
c. Incurring Tariffs and Export Fees g. Immigration and Migration
d. Foreign Worker Exploitation Challenges and Local Job Loss

What’s More

Activity 4.1. You, Us, and the World!

Direction: Imagine the world having nothing, the world having you, and the world
having us. Inside each circle, draw your world and social views for each description
and explain them briefly on the blanks below.
1. The World 2. The World with You 3. The World with Us

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2.
3.

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 What I Have Learned

Congratulations! Let us wrap up your learnings. Below is an activity that will

assess your understanding about the lesson- Growth and Challenges of
Globalization.
Activity 4.2 “You Can Do It!”
Direction: Fill in the blank with the correct answer.
1. Globalization is the increasing of countries
in the world.
2. Globalism is the international impulse that the world is .
3. The growth of globalization is manifested through global corporations,
global mobility, global expansion and .
4. globalization is the increase in information flows
between geographically remote locations.
5. globalization is the growth of cross-cultural contact
among people of the world and appreciation cultural diversity.

What I Can Do

Activity 4.3 “Be the Solution!”

Direction: Given the social problems in the first column of the table, provide possible
solutions/actions that you can use to aid them.
Social Issues Possible Solutions

Climate Change
Loss of Cultural
Identity
Labor Migration

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Activity 4.4 “Map It Out!”

Direction: (You may need to do an internet research for this activity.) Below is the
map of our country Philippines labeled with different regions. On the left is the list
of these regions’ local products, festivities, and tourist destinations known
worldwide. Pick them out from the list and write them inside the box beside their
corresponding regions. Complete this task in the provided activity sheet.

Electronic Products

Guimaras Mangoes

Pineapple and
Bananas

Sinulog Festival
Panagbenga Festival
Nickel Ore

Coconut Oil

Tipas Coco Sugar

Boracay

El Nido

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 Assessment

Post-Test

Test I. Multiple Choice.

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer from the choices given and write
it on a separate sheet of paper.
1. It is a process of increasing interdependence and interaction among people,
companies, and governments of different nations, driven by international
trade and made possible by innovations in information technology.
a. Community b. Globalization c. Institution d. Network
2. Which among the following makes interactions and interdependence among
people, companies and nations possible?
a. Economy c. Innovations in information technology
b. Government d. Technological connections
3. It paved the most expensive yet easiest avenue for economic and political pacts
and contracts.
a. Community b. Communication c. Network d. Organization
4. It is the ability to create, operate, and close an enterprise quickly and
easily.
a. Business b. Exportation c. Importation d. Trade
5. A famous organization in Asia, anchored on upholding competitive
interconnectedness, playing an important role in global industrial
production chains in manufacturing and services trade.
a. ASEAN c. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
b. United Nations d. World Bank
6. It is an important factor in understanding the necessary linkage between the
rich and poor countries in relation to most of the necessary materials and
resources for industrialization.
a. Economic Globalization c. Socio-Cultural Globalization
b. Environmental Globalization d. Technological Advancement
7. The contemporary globalization process is of concern to the lives and
interests not only of humankind in general but also of particular individuals,
irrespective of their social or ethnic status.
a. Economic Globalization c. Technological Globalization
b. Environmental Globalization d. Socio-Cultural Globalization

8. Globalization may be seen as “the process of progressive growth of economic

activities which transcends any kind of geographical order.”
a. Economic Globalization c. Socio-Cultural Globalization
b. Environmental Globalization d. Technological Globalization
9. It is a vital force in the modern form of business globalization.
a. Economic Globalization c. Socio-Cultural Globalization
b. Technological Advancement d. Technological Globalization
10. illustrates an average of 10 freedoms that is considered
important to the development of personal and national prosperity.
a. Index Environmental Freedom c. Index Economic Freedom
b. Index Socio-cultural Freedom d. Index Technological Freedom

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Test II. True or False
Direction: Write T if the statement is correct and F if it is wrong.
1. Globalization allows interconnections among countries in the world.
2. Through globalization, people experience limited movement within and
across territories.
3. The increasing interconnection of countries may actually result to
increased labor migration and loss of local jobs.
4. Due to globalization, we are no longer called local citizens but global
citizens.
5. Although globalization can bring the global progress closer to people, it
might also cause marginalization of countries especially the developing
ones.

Additional Activities

“Write Down Your Thoughts”

Direction: Develop a reflection paper expressing your understanding about the given
scenarios below.
A. As a student, how do economic, technological, cultural or political globalization is
affecting your present lifestyle most? You must give examples from your daily
experiences to elaborate your points.

“Apply and Supply!”

Direction: The digital boom in the Philippines today owes much of its force to a
“perfect digital storm.” What does this mean? Discuss your answer in a separate
sheet of paper.

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