Question C

Globalization is now happening in our life. This is a process of increasing the connectivity and

interdependence of the world’s view, market, business, product, idea and other aspect of culture.

In the other words, globalization means the world without border. However, there are also cons

in globalization more specifically in the context of morality when it becomes harmful towards

the world.

First and foremost, globalization may threaten the culture because of certain uncontrolled

habit. Culture can be defined as a characteristic, belief and knowledge of a particular group of

people defined by their social habit. First, we can see in traditions of Javanese culture where

during any ceremony like wedding ceremony, usually the Javanese will have “rewang” means

the people work together to prepare for the ceremony. However, since globalization occurred,

this “rewang” had been replaced by modern catering which people just pay for the service and

they just have to wait for the ceremony begin. Next, the language of people nowadays are no in

the proper manners. Because of globalization, especially the teenagers are affected by using the

harsh words in their daily conversation and not giving the respect to the elders. This consider

rude because in our culture younger should use proper words when talking to others which

shows the dignity of the family.

In addition, some terms that globalization may threaten the culture is in the terms of

consumerism. This can be clearly seen when gadget became one of the main important device in

our daily life. Previously, when smartphone is not an important device, people can spend their

quality time very well with the family and friends. However, the existence of smartphone, create

some distance because even in dining table, all family members likely to scrolling their

smartphone rather than talking to each other. Other than that, the western ideals also bring the

harmful impact towards the people over the world. For an instance, the culture of skinhead, black

metal, gothic and others brings the immoral behavior of the people who involve. This is because,

our culture teaches us to be polite and respect others while these cultures teach vice versa that

might harm our society which prioritized on ancient culture that has full respect and dignity.

The second harmful impact of globalization is environment. Environment is the

surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal or plant lives or operates. Since the

globalization has occurred, it increase the ecological footprint of human activities around the

world which leads to first; deforestation where the clearing of trees, transforming a forest into

cleared land. This permanent destruction happens due to the developing of an area such as

construction of new building, housing area and others. As globalizing, every area need to be

developed and achieved the standards therefore they forgot to appreciate the environment and

become immoral where they forget due to the deforestation, they also may damage the plant and

animal habitats.

Lastly, the harmful impact of globalization is power and social deferential. This is happen

where the rich become richer while the poor become poorer. Globalization lead to inequality

because all citizens do not get the equal service which they categorized by the social status. In

the health issue, usually those who are affordable are likely to be serving where they can get the

best treatment throughout the world however for poor people; they just have to wait for the

treatment in their place. Other than that, due to this, poverty also increases because they cannot

catch up with the modernization of the world and left behind where their salaries are fully

utilized to pay daily commitment. Therefore, globalization consider as immoral when there is no

ways to overcome it since globalization is borderless.