The Process to Equality

Leo Lu

This passage is inspired by Week 2 lectures. The medium of lesson will be a 10-min video.

It is worth to discuss several aspects of Globalization in the beginning. According to Alison

Mountz (2009), globalization can be divided into masculine and feminine sides. Masculine side

of globalization mainly is about economy, war, territory and so on. Feminine sides of

globalization are the interactions of emotion and believes like culture, religions, feelings, and so

on. Hyperglobalists, who privilege economic causes, can be treat as who thinks masculine aspect

is more crucial than feminine aspect: they propose that ‘borderless’ economy integrates the

whole world (Held et al. 1999). Historically speaking, economics do play an important role in

globalization, and globalization is started by economic driven. No matter the Columbus’ sailing

or wars between several European countries in 17th century, they are aimed to get more money,

and all these are masculine side. Therefore, masculine side of globalization may had occupied a

dominant position over the feminine side. Since the masculine side first leads globalization, a

country can quickly profit from others through wars or colonies. However, for the colonized, for

the slavery, for the immigrants, does this fair? They lost their family, lost their freedom, and

what is the most crucial is that they lost their home, an ideological home, which is more like an

emotion, a feeling, and a culture. With the leading role of the masculine side of globalization, the

famine side has been suppressed. People are looking for a balance, and I believe balance of

inequality is the core of globalization, just like what transformationalists propose that economy,
politics, and culture are equally important in shaping globalization. One example of feminine

side is the role of religions. Religions can break the limitation of territory and unify people with

shared ideas, and with the uprising force of religions on shaping the world, feminine aspects

become more equilibrium with masculine side. Instead of war for economics, there are lots of

wars are fighting for religions, especially the wars in the middle east.

News: “Senior Israeli lawmaker warns of "religious war" over Jerusalem moves”

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/senior-israeli-lawmaker-warns-religious-war-over-

jerusalem-moves-2022-05-23/

“JERUSALEM, May 23 (Reuters) - A senior Israeli lawmaker said on Monday the country

risked "religious war" after a court ruled in favor of Jews who had tried to pray at Jerusalem's Al-

Aqsa Mosque compound and as nationalists planned a march near the flashpoint site.”

Additionally, globalization is a process of equality between cruelty and peace. Looking back the

history again, we can discover that globalization is somehow cruel: wars, colonialism,

imperialism, refugees, and words like these are cruel. Since the nasty side has already led to

globalization, the peace side is what we look for right now. Although the world has been more

peaceful and less wars after WWII, the world now is that peaceful like we assumed. In May

2021, there was Israel–Palestine crisis, which caused 237 death and 6278 injured. We thought

the world was peace is not because we were born in a peaceful era, but more we were born in a

peaceful nation. Education and traveling tend to become more influential to the progress of

globalization. Globalization is a balance between cruelty and peace.

What’s more, globalization right now is not what globalization should be. Because in the word

globalization, global is the essence. However, we are globalized today for ourselves.

Globalization is a process of balancing it, a process to make globalization is genuinely for the

globe. Statically, today, the share of people living in extreme poverty is less than 10%, which

demonstrates that globalization is exerting its function (Ortiz-Ospina 2017).

Globalization, for me, should be a tool for balancing everything, and the fact is that it does offset

some of them. All of the wars, the protest, the cooperation seems like what human do to diminish

inequality. However, all of these are globalization; all humans are globalization—this does not

mean I weaken the achievement of human being, what human do is speed up this equality.
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Mountz, Alison. “Globalization.” Key Concepts in Political Geography, edited by Gallagher,

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