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Cultural Globalisation and TNCs Example (3)

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  • Netlfix recently launched in Burkina Faso
  • Which has a distinct tribal culture
  • May be eroded by the spread of Western ideals
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ICT Growth & Economic Globalisation (4)

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  • ICT allows managers of distant offices/plants to keep in touch much easier
  • E.g. through Skype
  • Helped TNCs expand into new territories
  • Both to sell and make their products
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Spatial Division of Labour (3)

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  • TNCs moving low skilled work abroad
  • To places where labour costs are low
  • While skilled management jobs are retained at the TNCs HQ
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ICT Growth & Cultural Globalisation (4)

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  • Cultural traits, such as language and music
  • Are adopted, imitated and hybridised faster than ever
  • Thanks to social media, cultural traits go viral
  • E.g. Gangnam Style, 2012
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Globalisation (3)

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  • The umbrella term
  • Used to describe the variety of ways
  • In which places and people are increasingly interconnected
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Remittances (2)

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  • Money that migrants send home to their families
  • Via formal or informal finances
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4 Important Elements of ICT Growth (4)

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  • Telephone / Telegraph
  • Broadband and Fibre Optics
  • GIS and GPS
  • The internet / Social networks
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As the world becomes more globalised, __________________ (2)

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  • the connections between places
  • are lengthening (further away) and deepening (more aspects of life)
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Intermodal Containers (3)

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  • Large-capacity storage units
  • Which can be transported long distances
  • Using multiple types of transport, such as shipping and rail
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Cultural Globalisation and TNCs (5)

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  • TNCs such as Netflix and Disney
  • Spread Western Culture across the world
  • Through their films/TV shows
  • Some argue they are responsible
  • For a growing trend towards cultural homogeneity on a global scale
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Budget Airlines & Globalisation (6)

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  • The improvements in jet aircraft technology
  • And the subsequent rise in budget airlines
  • have brought distant places
  • Within easy reach for high-income nations
  • And increasingly for emerging economies
  • E.g. AirAsia
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4 Important Innovations in Transport (4)

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  • Steam Power
  • Railways
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Container Shipping
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ICT Growth & Social Globalisation (4)

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  • ICT supports migration as migrants can maintain a strong link with home
  • More than 1 billion people use WhatsApp regularly
  • In the past, international connections were costly:
  • 3 minute call from London to Boston was $86 in today’s money
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Budget Airlines & Globalisation Example (2)

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  • E.g. EasyJet began flying to Estonia in 2004
  • Became ‘Switched On’ to the flow of tourists
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4 Important Innovations in Transport (4)

  • Steam Power
  • Railways
  • Jet Aircraft
  • Container Shipping
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  • Goods can be transported across the planet using intermodal containers
  • Allowing TNCs to establish a spatial division of labour
  • And sell goods to new markets
  • E.g. Chinese Vessel Cosco which can carry 13,000 containers
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ICT Growth & Political Globalisation (4)

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  • Social networks are used to raise awareness about political issues
  • And fight for change on a global scale
  • E.g. UK Government e-petitions
  • 1.8m people signed to stop Trump entering the UK
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Example of Spatial Division of Labour (2)

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  • Nike has 73 plants in Thailand
  • While HQ is in Oregon, US
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4 Types of Globalisation (4)

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  • Economic
  • Social
  • Political
  • Cultural
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Shrinking World Effect (4)

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  • Distant places starting to feel closer
  • And taking less time to reach
  • Thanks to heightened connectivity
  • And unrestricted global flows of commodities and ideas