On the Fence of Globilization

It might seem like I am taking the easy way out by staying on the fence about globalization, but I really can’t decide if I think it is purely good or bad.  Overall, I don’t think it is possible to say that globalization has entirely positive or negative effects alone.  I think that there are benefits of globalization that are absolutely vital to the world economically, politically, and culturally.  Without globalization, countries wouldn’t be so well-rounded and diverse, and world trade wouldn’t even exist.  Countries are dependent on each other for resources and goods that aren’t available in some places.  This trade helps boost individual country’s economies as well as the global community’s.  Before reading the articles, I thought the good aspects of globalization outweighed the bad.  However, the author of the no side of the argument included a myriad of examples proving that there are indeed “dark sides” to globalization.  It provides proof of the dangers of unipolarity and globalization working together in the world.  The arguments it used against globalization were really convincing in that it shows how good, beneficial global relations bring along negative interactions more often than not.  Despite the multiple important benefits of globalization, because of this negative view that I read, it is hard for me to see past these bad outcomes and focus solely on the good.