American Culture

American culture’s influence around the world. Everybody has different perception about this country and its culture. Always it depends of the baggage that the person has before to know this Nation. I have personal experience with the American culture. Although Argentina has very similar culture than The United State; now I can understand more to American culture. I feel very comfortable in this country, its culture and I feel that U.S.A new my home.
Many people have another view about American culture that it changes when they live in this country or have more contact with Americans. I was surprised by some aspects from this culture. In Argentina people think that Americans are a little cold because they don’t have a lot of physical contact. But in my opinion Americans show their affection in a different way. Also, some people think that Americans are arrogant and they don’t know about about anything else but their own country. This is really not true (as most generalizations); I’m living here and I have discovered that people from this country travel a lot to different places and they are interested about different cultures. In additional, Americans have a strong sense of cummunity, and many people go to poor countries and help poor people. I think that many times people have preconceptions about American culture, but when they get to know it first hand they end up liking it.

Is There a Solution to Eradicate World’s Poverty?

I think that nobody has a perfect answer to eradicate poverty, but I know how difficult it is to live in a developing country. The percentage of poor people in my home country is increasing every year, and most children don’t even have a minimum chance to get a decent education, food or shelter. I don’t have a magical solution for this problem. But if government officials of developing countries were to eliminate corruption and people would abide by the law, things would be much better. A more progressive tax system based on taxation of income instead of consumption would also be very effective at providing aid to those who need it most. Everybody should have the opportunity to get a good education and a decent job. If everything were to work perfectly poverty would disappear, but it is a little naïve to think that it will be gone in a short period of time. Although if some of the suggestions described above were implemented, all developing countries will be better off and people will have a better quality of live.

China's Economy

In my opinion, China will have soon the largest economy in the world. This country has developed very fast economically. Actually China is one of the Asian countries that have very strong economies that surpass Japan. Economists say if China can continue growth 5 %- 6% annually in this 2020; this country will have a growing celebrated accumulated for 50 years. It will be a might in the economic world’s economic history. In addition, China has an important industrial development that not only gives working to millions people in China, but also substance to many countries of the world. This kind of economy has helped this lot of poor Chinese people to get out of poverty. This nation has good technology that makes them more advances and a modern country. I think that China will be the next potential in the world.

Globalization

Actually everywhere we hear the word globalization. In fact, the word is globalized. I remember when my niece Lucia was six years old; was watching TV and heard the word globalization. She speaks Spanish, and globo means balloon in Spanish. She didn’t know that language the meaning of this word, so she asked me. Globalization means that the world is inside of a balloon. Really, Lucia was almost right about this. Globalization is an economic, technologic, social and cultural process that consists of communication and interdependence between different countries of the world. This process unifies economic markets, cultures and societies through a series of social, economic and political transformations that make a global character. Globalization is a dynamic process that it is generated in societies where people live in democratic capitalism or liberal democracy. A lot people agree with this process because Globalization has opened its door to the technology revolution and it makes everything more connected, but many people think that globalization economic only benefits rich countries. In my opinion time will know if globalization is beneficial or not to developing countries.