Globalization

The term of globalization have been changing in time, and nowadays, involves aspects like cultural, social, political and technological. Considering that the concept of is well known for most of the people because of the use and effects on internet. Internet is a good example of the globalization phenomena, the worldwide web is part of a big mass of people interacting and communicating to each other in real time, and that’s what being global is about.

Now, the definition could be a little harder when comes to the other kind of terms, like politics or cultural matters but they all come to a single concept, sharing knowledge and everyone be part of a big community, living as a whole, in every single aspect of our life’s, like sports, health, economy, culture, music, etc. The share of knowledge will give a hope by letting new tech and also new medicines for people with needs in the developing countries.

In my opinion, Globalization come here to stay and will be a type of ideology in the years to come, with the idea of bringing down all types of walls that separate human beings from each other, globalization is the future and won’t stop, even though it has their lows and highs, the problem of poverty have been an issue of globalization and also a matter in the developing countries that have been struggling against it or trying to be part of a globalize world.

Globalization is the way in which we, as human beings, would care about each other, this sounds more like a utopia, but at least we have the idea and the concept of going in the right way. In the years to come there will be an improvement not only in the main issues or the pros matter but also in the problems and diseases that the whole world has, like the search for cures of cancer and AIDS and the improvement in poverty too.

Current ethnic conflicts

Ethnic Conflicts have been in the world since and even before Jesus, as an example we can remember how Moses and Jew people were rejected from Egypt as written in the bible, and how Jews had suffer through history just because of their religious believes, or also how Muslims are or were rejected since the terrorist act of 911, this can make us wonder, why of this human behavior, well this type of behavior is very common among people, is a territorial instinct or sense of property that in which people felt threaten when don’t know somebody or have a difference aspect or a different believes.

Ethnic conflicts are most of the time with difference in race, political or religious believes, but there´s also a type of discrimination against minorities under a society, in this case for example Latin American, is very common to find countries with indigenous populations trying to make their rights and thoughts stand still under a society in which white people domain.

Political differences among countries can also end in an ethnic conflict, but this case is very particular, issues like control of a territory or problems with the country borders, like the recent problems with Costa Rica and Nicaragua, both trying to control an area of land in the north border, this can cause a ejective behavior against nicas, just because of political matter, we have the advantage of being a pacifist country that won’t let this issue go any further, but if this same case were developed in an conflict area it might end in a war.

Violence between races or ethnics had been part of us since so long; is sad, but this is how some countries or territories had been created, as everything grows and develops we can expect new kinds of violence against ethnic groups; globalization, migration of people to other countries, land control, and power help to increase this type of discrimination, and as happened in the past, if we don’t try to stop this, we would see again genocides, violence, and even more terrorist acts.

Globalization of infectious diseases

Infectious disease is a problem that doesn’t respect ethnic, social position or geographic location; it can either affect developed and undeveloped countries. For undeveloped countries the problem could have a major impact because of lack of institutions and procedures to help people infected by an epidemic. In the other hand, developed countries can support more easily the advance of an epidemic by affording new drugs and procedures to eliminate an infection.

Nowadays, modern transportation, immigration, and unrestricted borders allow people, animals, and other different species that carry diseases, and easily moved from one country to another and spread it pretty fast. Keeping in mind that one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide are epidemics. Trying to stop this technological and individual advantages, reduced the increasing number of infections worldwide , but still the need of better and more strong actions to eliminate completely the pandemics around the world.

Safer food , water, better housing, better nutrition, and better sanitary conditions, all that together, and also the use of vaccines are some of the main factors of stopping increasing infections around the world. They´re still countries that can’t afford this kind of treatment, so they depend on international organization to help deal with the problem, so is also important to maintain and support international cooperation.

Cooperation should be the key to provide better response for a pandemic, the fact that governments around the world have the responsibility of providing better health services and better social structure to stop infectious diseases, this shouldn’t be it, governments need to do more, also for developed countries that experiment with vaccines and other types of cures, they all have to set their experiments for free, to provide the whole world better treatment and better cure.

Migration

As the global economy grows, wealth and money lay just in several countries. Meanwhile the third worlds, which are composed by undeveloped countries, still under a state of poverty and lack of economic growth; the migration of people comes as a way of helping their families in poor countries, to have a relief in his economy and also the importance of giving their children a better education and life time.

In the other hand, developed countries see immigration practices as problems, because of many aspects, one of them is the used of social services by immigrants that doesn't pay taxes like a regular citizen, this can affect the economy and social funds on a country ; another aspect is taking on the borders, bunch of people trespassing without controls, no one knows who is entering, or what kind of person is getting into the country, this could be a really hard problem, criminals or antisocial persons trying to get in, causing insecurity and violence under a society.

Here in Costa Rica, immigration comes in some part as a way of helping the economy, but also immigration could be a problem too, immigrants mainly from Nicaragua come to make menial jobs that nobody want to do, those works are: construction workers, coffee pickers; they also take care of our children and help families as baby keepers or housemaid, those jobs help our economy and social stability.

In conclusion, immigration can have either advantages or disadvantages, in some cases migration is temporarily, and when they return, people can bring with them new skills and attitudes that later on can be helpful to their families and their social stability, and in the other hand, also it become a problem to carry and an issue for social issues and social parameters.