Globalization – Blessing or a curse??

I was going through the definition of word ‘globalization’ in encyclopedia, the tool that’s the lifeline for my net life. The term ‘Globalization’ started in somewhere around 1960s when different countries started thinking in terms of integrated network, where they can do trade, make investment, use labor by surpassing the boundaries and moving ahead in terms of internationalizing the nations.
Globalization started in economic arena but later on expanded to social and cultural areas also. So we can say we are trying to reach a place where we have global rules to do trade, global language, global culture and society…….but wait a minute, is the picture is as rosy as it appears from outside. Is globalization really a boom or a curse?
Today its very easy for a country, which is rich in some resource and poor in another, to do trade with the other, which has the opposite balance. A company from one nation can go ahead and do investments in the other one with far less barriers as compared to pre-globalization era. We hear so much of production happening in China/Indonesia/India/Philippines for US brands. People are getting employment because of this globalised market. Per capita of these nations have improved, less number of people fall under poverty line now, literacy rate has improved. But wait, is this kind of structure helping a nation or just an individual or a brand name in that matter. Is the brand or the person growing on the expense of under-developed nations. In today’s world we have so many poor and under developed nations like Guinea, Somalia which are rich in resources but are counted in world’s one of the most poor countries. When we go into thought process of globalised world, don’t we see that the rich nations taking due advantage of these countries in terms of resources, labor. In recent few decades we have heard much about term ‘outsourcing’.
Post globalization we have seen varied exchange of various culture. We can have Japanese food in any part of the world. Every kid loves burger, thanx to McDonalds which has brought burger on global platform. When I am walking down a street in interior of Lyon I see a india handicraft store. This all happened because of globalization. Cultural globalization has brought human beings closer, in which a person in one part of the world understand the roots and culture of the another person in other part. But is our society ready for this kind of change. When I see the history of human being, all the wars that has been fought since thousands of years and as a matter of fact are still continuing, it is quiet obvious that all these previous and present wars are fought for the sustain the individuality of an individual, a tribe, a religion or a nation. Our past and our present shows that mixing of two cultures is not as easy as it looks and people have fought and will fight for years to keep it intact. Under these circumstances globalization would not only be difficult to implement but also worth giving a thought that if ‘globalization with limits’ is better answer for world’s problem then ‘globalizations with no limits’. And if we want to put limits then what would be them? We can put limit on economics, trade, investment but can we put limit to cultural exchange which is bound to happen in wake of previous exchange. I just hope that globalization brings solution to the existing human problems and not become a new problem for the human existence.