December 13th 2010 marked the second time Tun Mahathir attended UNITEN and gave a speech for the Tun Mahathir Lecture Series. On the red-letter day, his title of speech was "Globalizing Malaysians in 2020". This post is created solely to inform you guys about the gist of his speech.
Globalization describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation, and trade [source: wikipedia].
Based from Oxford English Dictionary, ‘globalization’ refers to holistic view of human experience in education. History shows that in 1492, Christopher Columbus, a man that many claimed as the first explorer to reach America from Europe, crossing the Atlantic Ocean seeking wealth from the trade routes and colonies. His act was considered the initial start of globalization.
Preceding that, the world start to globalize and the main focus was given particularly at Europe as at the moment, Europe was facing the time of imperialism and economic competition. By obtaining more land, one kingdom is said to be more powerful and have influence or domination not only in territorial aspect but also in economy and military. To give more insight, we should recalled our history book specifically saying that the reasons why Europeans wants to conquer Asia was to gain power, wealth, control of spices and to spread their religious belief.
Globalization in Malaysia starts as early as 15th century which is the prime time of the Malacca Sultanate. As traders from various countries come and go, many cultures have been intertwined and that is where the first globalization has come into Malaysia. The mixture of cultures has not stopped, yet they are expanding as far as they can. However not all cultures are deemed good. Therefore before accepting the cultures, we need to think what can it influenced us. Is it in a good way or is it in a bad way.
The world, particularly high developed countries have their own interpretation of globalization. As Tun had claimed, their idea or interpretation of globalization could just be to “enriched the rich”. Their idea of globalization when sowed to the less rich countries might become beneficial for them and thus that is where “the rich” (high developed countries) becomes richer. Therefore to ensure that we fully utilize the course of globalization in our country, we must have a good understanding of what globalization is. We cannot blindly accept their ideas completely; we have to assess and then make our own interpretation according to our preferences.
If we think that by not accepting globalization we can be as good as others, what we thought are totally wrong. We cannot be so independent and isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. Every development and upgrades available to the world should not be wasted; we have to incorporate it to ensure that our country development is not lagging behind.
But there are also bad impacts if full globalization is trained on us because as there are many positives outcome of globalization, there are also the negatives, for an instance, the disintegration of morality value. Often globalization creates more impacts on young people because young people like atypical things. Sometimes these atypical things are what causing young people to exhibit immoral attitude.
In conclusion, we cannot fully reject the course of globalization in our country; as whether we like it or not, we are part of the world. We have our own roles to play and we should not be trapped with “games” that are played by some irresponsible people. There are some things that are useful and beneficial for us and there are also negative things that could destroy us. In this case, those positives things are the things that we should accept. By understanding the true meaning of globalization can we achieved the objectives of Malaysia 2020.
Globalization describes the process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation, and trade [source: wikipedia].
Based from Oxford English Dictionary, ‘globalization’ refers to holistic view of human experience in education. History shows that in 1492, Christopher Columbus, a man that many claimed as the first explorer to reach America from Europe, crossing the Atlantic Ocean seeking wealth from the trade routes and colonies. His act was considered the initial start of globalization.
Preceding that, the world start to globalize and the main focus was given particularly at Europe as at the moment, Europe was facing the time of imperialism and economic competition. By obtaining more land, one kingdom is said to be more powerful and have influence or domination not only in territorial aspect but also in economy and military. To give more insight, we should recalled our history book specifically saying that the reasons why Europeans wants to conquer Asia was to gain power, wealth, control of spices and to spread their religious belief.
Globalization in Malaysia starts as early as 15th century which is the prime time of the Malacca Sultanate. As traders from various countries come and go, many cultures have been intertwined and that is where the first globalization has come into Malaysia. The mixture of cultures has not stopped, yet they are expanding as far as they can. However not all cultures are deemed good. Therefore before accepting the cultures, we need to think what can it influenced us. Is it in a good way or is it in a bad way.
The world, particularly high developed countries have their own interpretation of globalization. As Tun had claimed, their idea or interpretation of globalization could just be to “enriched the rich”. Their idea of globalization when sowed to the less rich countries might become beneficial for them and thus that is where “the rich” (high developed countries) becomes richer. Therefore to ensure that we fully utilize the course of globalization in our country, we must have a good understanding of what globalization is. We cannot blindly accept their ideas completely; we have to assess and then make our own interpretation according to our preferences.
If we think that by not accepting globalization we can be as good as others, what we thought are totally wrong. We cannot be so independent and isolate ourselves from the rest of the world. Every development and upgrades available to the world should not be wasted; we have to incorporate it to ensure that our country development is not lagging behind.
But there are also bad impacts if full globalization is trained on us because as there are many positives outcome of globalization, there are also the negatives, for an instance, the disintegration of morality value. Often globalization creates more impacts on young people because young people like atypical things. Sometimes these atypical things are what causing young people to exhibit immoral attitude.
In conclusion, we cannot fully reject the course of globalization in our country; as whether we like it or not, we are part of the world. We have our own roles to play and we should not be trapped with “games” that are played by some irresponsible people. There are some things that are useful and beneficial for us and there are also negative things that could destroy us. In this case, those positives things are the things that we should accept. By understanding the true meaning of globalization can we achieved the objectives of Malaysia 2020.
"Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization."
Lawrence Summers
Lawrence Summers
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