Globalization: Why We Care About Faraway Events
By Carla Mooney and Samuel Carbaugh
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Carla Mooney
Carla Mooney has written more than 70 books for children and young adults. She is an award-winning author of several books for Nomad Press, including The Chemistry of Food, The Physics of Fun, The Human Body and The Human Genome: Mapping the Blueprint of Human Life, and Globalization: Why We Care about Faraway Events. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Globalization - Carla Mooney
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Timeline
Introduction
The World Cup on a Global Stage
Chapter 1
What Is Globalization?
Chapter 2
Money in a Global World
Chapter 3
The Global Rules of Trade
Chapter 4
Global Politics
Chapter 5
In the Name of the Law
Chapter 6
Crossing the Cultural Divide
Chapter 7
The Future of Globalization
Index
TIMELINE
The World Cup on a Global Stage
How does the FIFA World Cup represent globalization?
The coming together of many different nationalities from all around the world at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is indicative of the daily merging of our global experiences, from eating bananas grown in Guatemala to riding bikes made in China.
In July 2014, people from all around the globe gathered in Brazil for one of the world’s most popular sporting events—the men’s football World Cup. Organized by the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the World Cup is held every four years. It has been hosted by countries on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
For the 2014 event, 32 of the world’s best national teams competed to win the Golden Globe Trophy. These teams included five from Africa, four from Asia, 13 from Europe, four from North and Central America, and six from South America.
Not only were the teams themselves from around the world, so were the fans. More than a million international tourists traveled to Brazil from countries as far away as Germany, Australia, Japan, and Israel. They dressed in team colors and waved the flags of their nations as they cheered for their favorite teams.
An even larger global audience watched the sporting action on television and on digital streaming devices. The 2014 World Cup was shown in every country and territory in the world to an audience of more than 3.2 billion people. Multinational corporations such as Adidas, Coca-Cola, Visa, Emirates, McDonald’s, Sony, and Hyundai Motor Group poured money into the event for sponsorships. Their brands and logos were seen daily by the billions of viewers.
The official slogan of the 2014 FIFA World Cup was Juntos num so ritmo, or All in one rhythm.
It truly was a global event.
A PRODUCT OF GLOBAL COOPERATION
Adidas, a German corporation, supplied the soccer balls used in the World Cup. More than a million Brazilian fans voted in a social media contest, naming the ball Brazuca.
The ball itself was a product of global cooperation. Low-wage workers in Pakistan made the balls used in game play, while Chinese workers manufactured replica balls. The manufacturing process used chemical compounds from several countries and plastics made from petroleum from the Middle East and Norway.
More than 600 international soccer players from all positions tested prototypes of the Brazuca balls to make sure they worked properly. They conducted tests in 10 countries on three continents, in different climates and altitudes.
Primary Sources
Primary sources come from people who were eyewitnesses to events. They might write about the event, take pictures, post short messages to social media or blogs, or record the event for radio or video. The photographs in this book are primary sources, taken at the time of the event. Paintings of events are usually not primary sources, since they were often painted long after the event took place. What other primary sources can you find? Why are primary sources important? Do you learn differently from primary sources than from secondary sources, which come from people who did not directly experience the event?
Vocab Lab
There is a lot of new vocabulary in this book. Turn to the glossary in the back when you come to a word you don’t understand. Practice your new vocabulary in the VOCAB LAB activities in each chapter.
credit: Danilo Borges
Once the balls were ready, South-Korean-built container ships carried the Brazucas to fans around the globe.
Even the World Cup’s entertainment was a product of global cooperation. At the opening ceremony, American entertainer Jennifer