Globlization

With the development of globalization, our planet is getting smaller and smaller. The high technology makes the steps of globalization move even quicker and quicker. Globalization has been impacting our lives in so many different levels. For example,a few decades ago, it usually took more than one month to get to Vancouver, Canada from Hong Kong by vessels, now it takes only 13 hours by flight. The economic connections among different countries or regions which rely on each other are getting stronger than ever before. The recent fall in Chinese stock market that caused the worldwide stock makets to drop in a huge volume explained how globalization influences the different economic systems. Ten years ago, I could hardly hear European or American people speak Chinese, now, many of them have started to learn and speak Chinese. Some Chinese, such as "drink tea", have become their own oral words. "Drink tea" orginally comes from the Cantonese language "Yiung Ca", which means "take morning tea" or breakfirst. In the meantime, many Chinese people, including myself, are so much involved with English. English is widely used in my routine life. Globalization brings us so many benifits, yet we should also observe that it brings some negative effects as well. The rich are getting richer because of their hunge capital which enables them to control the resources, and the poor are getting poorer since they are unable to compete with those strong competitors.