Fernando Coronil's "Towards a Critique of Globalcentrism: Speculations on Capitalism's Nature," focuses on globalization from an economic and geographic aspect. Accroding to Coronil, we as a society a need to reestablish and reexamine groups of people. Globalization is basically the idea that boundaries between peoples and nations once existed but now they are being disregarded. This could mean a potential move in the right direction for international relations. Even though the world is divided by issues of race, economics, gender, politics or religion but with the advances in technologies and possible resources could bridge the gaps.However, I may view the Western World's integration in other countries as crude but necessary since women are being oppresed, kids are being manipulated to kill and dictators continue to rule without opposition. On the other hand, I maybe describing the sentiments of the dark side of globalization that Coronil talks about. He says "While the elites are increasingly integrated, their impoverished majorities are increasingly excluded from the domestic economy." I suppose its our nation's history that created boundaries but while those were dismantled, new ones begin like the elite are getting richer, the middle working class is becoming as poor as the impoverished, racism and prejudice are still prevalent. Kinda reminds me of the South Park spoof of America's History.
Simon Gikandi's “Globalization and the Claims of Postcoloniality,” elaborates on how the opportunities brought on by technology will continue to progress and nations across the world will hopefully adapt to industrialization. Gikandi’s discussion on how the English brought writers from colonized countries impressed me because it demonstrates the English's thirst for knowledge as well as culture because if we as a nation were to seclude our knowledge then it would pose a serious problem in international communication. It like what Gikandi says about "the majority of the postcolonial subjects who experience globalization and cannot speak because their language is alien to the postcolonial liberal sympathizers or émigré elite."
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I try to be optimistic and think that developing nations will catch up with the West due to globalization. But I think that in order to do that they are careless with the way they are industrializing. Developing nations create more greenhouse gases then we do, because we have already caused the inital pollution and have been able to progress technologically. But I think that progress is done in baby steps and that it is hard for nations to develop from where they are now into efficiently run economies and governments. Globalization and postcoloniality are linked in a lot of ways, and they are very complicated. It is easy to try to make broad statements about either, but there are a lot of ambiguities that ultimately cannot be ignored.
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