The answer to the question "Should the average citizen resist globalization?" depends entirely upon the morals and values common among all individuals and cultures worldwide, because in a worldwide context, there is no such thing as an "average citizen", otherwise. While western citizens in Europe and the United States are raised with a completely different culture than citizens of the Middle East or Africa, values such as fairness, stability, generosity, integrity, non-violence, and individual freedom are shared by all people at their core, even if putting those values into actual practice seems to be another matter entirely. The move towards globalization presents a set of problems that a lot of people are set against because they seem to violate or cast aside some of these common values in the pursuit of opportunity, advantage and wealth.
Opponents to globalization often accuse multinational corporations of social injustices such as sexism. For example, in the case of Anglo-American Platinum, the world's leading producer of platinum group metals, the mining charter for their Khomanani mine in South Africa specifies that 13 percent of their employees should be made up of women and provisions be made for their safety working underground with a predominantly male workforce. Yet, according to South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers, they have made almost no attempt to accomodate and integrate women into their mining operations, nor address the issues of their safety against sexual assault while working alone in isolated mine areas.("Murder exposes rampant," 2014)
Globalization has been associated with the destruction of cultural and racial identities, as well. Finance and big business have swept through many fragile areas, displacing large numbers of people and eradicating their traditions and way of life in the name of progress. Development projects such as dams and large mining projects have forced the removal of large numbers of indigenous tribal people from ancestral land in both Africa and India. In India, “ The Koel-Karo dam project was commissioned despite the fact that it would have destroyed 200 tribal villages and submerged 45,000 hectares of arable land. The Subernarekha Project has been the site of police atrocities and the high level of illegal transactions of funds within the project has been common knowledge.” (Mohapatra, 2012) Opponents also point out that globalization may have set the stage for several of the world’s recent financial crises. They claim that free market policies, together with outsourced labor and access to foreign financial markets made the global economy more susceptible to crisis by first driving down wages worldwide, and then encouraging massive increases in consumer lending. Investment banks and hedge funds, major sources of capital and credit, were then allowed to move from a regulated national environment and were able to operate within the almost completely unregulated international environment, in which speculators operated with no oversight and no limit as to the risks of their investments. (Creamer, 2009)
The ability to take large and dangerous financial risks with no oversight made financial markets more vulnerable and insecure to other investors. According to Reint Gropp, professor of finance at Goethe University, “Hedge funds are opaque and highly leveraged. If highly leveraged hedge funds are forced to liquidate assets at fire-sale prices, these asset classes may sustain heavy losses,” Mr. Gropp says. “This can lead to further defaults or threaten systemically important institutions not only directly as counterparties or creditors, but also indirectly through asset price adjustments.” (Nicolaci, 2014)
Another point of contention against globalization comes in the agricultural sector. Many poor developing countries produce agricultural crops such as coffee and wheat that are exported for income. Many wealthier countries like the US, Japan, and the European Union also produce these same exports, except that they provide large subsidies to their farmers to help offset the costs of growing their crops. As wealthier nations with other sources of income, they can afford to provide these subsidies to their farmers. As a result, the subsidized crops help to push down the average world market price of these products, and the poor countries have no choice except to sell their crops at much lower prices. This results in the severe diminishment of profit on exportable agricultural products for developing nations that may only be able to rely on agriculture as a source of outside income.
These developing nations have far less disposable income to spend on agricultural technology and research, as well. Spending more money on agricultural endeavors such as these enable poor countries to increase the production of agricultural products by decreasing the cost entailed, resulting in greater profits for them and better competition with other countries for their products. If they are not able to spend money on research and technology, they will be unable to lower the cost of domestic production, become unable to compete in the world marketplace, and be forced into near-subsistence farming and agriculture only. “Cost-reducing technological change is the product of applied research, which increasingly depends on constantly advancing basic research. Low-income countries that are not rapidly expanding and improving their agricultural research capacity will not experience cost reductions and hence as others reduce costs, and prices decline, incomes of the non-innovators will decline. Nowhere is this more dramatic than in Africa, which has suffered from increasingly efficient production of first oil palm, then cocoa, and now coffee from Asian countries that have been spending on research. Benefiting from research is now far more complex than a few decades ago.” ("Globalization and the,")
Lastly, globalization has been accused of being responsible for far-reaching and dramatic, negative effects on the environment. Instead of eating locally-grown food and using local goods, people are now buying these products from other areas of the world. Processed foods and manufactured goods are being produced in countries where lenient local laws allow corporations to basically ignore any environmental restrictions. Environmental activists have pointed out that the increase in the availability of consumable goods has resulted in increased transportation and consumption of raw materials and food, increased fuel consumption, increased air and water pollution, noise pollution, and environmental intrusion. Chemicals and toxic waste have been dumped in the water and onto the ground, contaminating local groundwater supplies and damaging local plants and animals by interfering in their genetic makeup. Large tracts of land in South America are being deforested to make way for more buildings and land for animal grazing. ("Globalization and its,")
Should the average citizen resist globalization? Yes, they should, at least until corporations and banks become more responsible about the impact of their actions on the rest of the world and become better global citizens, with values in line with individuals. Globalization is presented by many of its supporters are being an inexorable force that will happen eventually no matter what. With advances in technology making the world a smaller place every day, that may seem hard to dispute. Globalization done responsibly might be a much greater force for good than it is now, and not something to fear, but the corporations and banks powering it need to change and grow. The average citizen alone has no power in affecting change on these organizations, but power lies in large numbers of people making the proper and responsible choices together and sticking to their values in order to bring notice to and affect the change that they desire.

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