Elements of Globalization
In the last few years, the world has witnessed development advancement in various business and industrial sectors. These industrial sectors include the communication industries, the communication sector, and the food processing and production industries among others. So, the question that one who has never come across the term globalization may ask is “what really is globalization?” Explained in simple terms, globalization is the growing process, developing, and having an expansion in businesses and services and technologies around the entire globe. The process has basically has a goal of increasing the connections, connectivity, and interdependence of the world's businesses.
In this phase, various elements of globalization will be discussed. These elements include trade agreements, the migration patterns and their effects, the transparency and accessibility to information, and the technological spread among other elements. A focus on these elements based on the Bible will also be viewed.
Some arrangements have been made with an intention of reducing the trade barriers imposed on goods leaving and entering various countries. These arrangements are what have been termed as trade agreements. In setting up of trade agreements, countries come together and make decisions that are good for the trading activities that exist among them. Biblically, the Bible strongly supports agreements, trade agreements being one of them. To begin with, the Bible is trying to set it straight that there is so much that can be done when all nations agree on something. In the book of 1 Corinthians 1:10-11, it is written: “I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers.” Here, the Bible condemns human division, but praises unity.
However, these trade agreements should be agreed upon in a way that benefits each and every country that takes part in the specific trade. God condemns inequality and oppression. Prophet Jeremiah, in the book of Jeremiah speaks of oppression. He warns nations and people against oppressing each other. “Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you. For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy. Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?” (Jeremiah 5:25-29). God here warns against looking down on each other, He warns of dire consequences for those who look down on their neighbors. However, this has not been the case when it comes to the case of globalization. The main theme being observed in the proposal of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which is a trade agreement that could exist between between the EU and the USA.