Summary Of Gleiser's View Of Globalization

What has globalization changed? Each year in the United States alone, drug abuse is linked to 52,000 deaths and costs nearly $110 billion in healthcare. To define globalization for a better understanding: “ it’s a process of interaction and integration among the people, cultures, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology.” However, Gleiser had a different approach to globalization. His argument in the article “Globalization: Two visions of the Future of Humanity” was about how certain cultures either “open up and absorb” or “entrench and fight back” the outside forces. If our approach to outside forces is detached, then it is contradictory to
How is drug abuse linked to globalization? Is a question that might be on ones mind when contemplating Gleiser’s argument of the either/or; it is the narkotrafficking in South American Countries that connects the two. Glieser’s either/or argument is limited and I believe that cultures aren’t just one or the other; they are controlled by where the power is held, like the Cartels in Columbia that are controlling the integration of their cultures via the narkotrafficking, using corruption and violence.
Some cultures don’t have a say in whether they are going to open up to the globalization, or fight back. They are forced to open up, and in this way certain aspects of globalization can occur, but it can never function efficiently, unless it is truly “opened up and
Even when top leaders of drug cartels are captured or killed, other rivals take their place. An example is, Escobar’s Medellin Cartel, who has a close to complete monopoly over the drug trafficking in Columbia, who moves huge quantities of drugs through the Caribbean to America. The Colombian Cartels’ success is said to have inspired Mexican drug-trafficker, Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, to turn the family-run smuggling syndicates within Mexico into a singular organization, which is an example of how one drug culture can integrate with another. And the recent arrest of Benjamin Arellano Felix has done little to stop the flow of drugs to the United States, which shows how detrimental and permanent the assimilation can