This document is a reading report summarizing an article about globalization and transnational communities. The report discusses how globalization has increased international trade and regulatory agreements between countries. While globalization has benefits like economic growth, the report notes it also has negative effects, as transnational companies in the Philippines prioritize their own profits over environmental protection and hiring local workers. The report concludes by questioning how the Philippine government can better regulate transnational companies' use of resources and promote hiring Filipino workers, while also protecting Filipino immigrants abroad.
This document is a reading report summarizing an article about globalization and transnational communities. The report discusses how globalization has increased international trade and regulatory agreements between countries. While globalization has benefits like economic growth, the report notes it also has negative effects, as transnational companies in the Philippines prioritize their own profits over environmental protection and hiring local workers. The report concludes by questioning how the Philippine government can better regulate transnational companies' use of resources and promote hiring Filipino workers, while also protecting Filipino immigrants abroad.
This document is a reading report summarizing an article about globalization and transnational communities. The report discusses how globalization has increased international trade and regulatory agreements between countries. While globalization has benefits like economic growth, the report notes it also has negative effects, as transnational companies in the Philippines prioritize their own profits over environmental protection and hiring local workers. The report concludes by questioning how the Philippine government can better regulate transnational companies' use of resources and promote hiring Filipino workers, while also protecting Filipino immigrants abroad.
This document is a reading report summarizing an article about globalization and transnational communities. The report discusses how globalization has increased international trade and regulatory agreements between countries. While globalization has benefits like economic growth, the report notes it also has negative effects, as transnational companies in the Philippines prioritize their own profits over environmental protection and hiring local workers. The report concludes by questioning how the Philippine government can better regulate transnational companies' use of resources and promote hiring Filipino workers, while also protecting Filipino immigrants abroad.
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Assignment 3: Metacognitive Reading Report
Garcia, Eriane Miguel M. September 7, 2019
2018101516 GED105-A19 Title: Globalization from Below: The Rise of Transnational Communities Today we are living in global community with no physical boundaries. People across the world are connected by the internet, communications, by the comfort of travel, people, money, information, ideas, and goods are costly moving between countries. This notion causes cultural and economic changes in the countries involved. As modernization blast up, technological advancement were made and create further possibilities of international trade and exchange. In accordance to what I learned in the article is that, the increase of had both created and been supported by international regulatory group mention in the last article subjected economic integration, transnational agreements involving free trade agreements. I believe that there is any single country that is independent. Every country is dependent to some point on the international trade for their own prosperity and economic building. Reading the article, made me constantly seeing the Philippines in which I believe it is one of the country in Asia who strongly opened arms and embraces globalization, thinking that it is the solution to its many problems. In accordance to what I learned from the article, the concept of transnationality has a good and bad effect in the economic built of the country. Let’s open our eyes and look at the reality in which investors who are investing in the country would not invest if we would not lower the tariff on the product they will manufacture and allocate. But on the other hand, the only benefit that the country would be getting from these transnational companies is the work force. In which people who are incapable of acquiring blue collar jobs may enter in the industrial manufacturing business and still can earn income for a lifetime expense in which bring good effect in the country itself. Weighing the good and bad effect of this concept, I may say that the benefit is one sided to the transnational companies in which it is like a manner of take it or leave it. Moreover, I also found out that there is a regulatory law that controls the number of transnational communities that which prohibits employers from knowingly hiring, recruiting, or referring for a fee any alien who is unauthorized to work. The public policy behind this law reflects the concern that the problem of illegal immigration and employment requires greater control and stronger enforcement mechanisms by the federal government. As a result of this law, all employers are required to verify both the identity and employment eligibility of all regular, temporary employees, temporary agency personnel, and student to be employees hired. Lastly, I significantly learned that, the things that is done by this transnational companies including the products their manufacture, the value of the name it carries can greatly affect the culture and the practice of the citizen in their everyday life. Given the current state of the Philippines, these transnational companies have overcome and over used the natural resources of this country. In which it cause destruction of diversity, beauty and balance of our resources. Like for example, the late issue in which Mrs Gina Lopez battled for the suspension of mining activity by these transnational mining companies who is unethically digging for natural resources, leaving the land area unclear, devastated, and most specially unsafe for the fellow residence to sleep tight at night during rainy weather, thinking that a big rock might fall on top of their roofs and causing liabilities. Another thing, the newly renovated Boracay beach in which it is the star attraction of the Philippines was found out that in the far distance of the main shore of Boracay, there is this main pipe connected to a factory. This pipe is constantly releasing dark liquid and smells funny. This discovery is giving the business owners and the people of Boracay islands a constant worry. Because as they said, the closing of Boracay has greatly affected not just their livelihood but also their life as well. Normally, we always think that, with more industrial business the brighter the shine of our country would be come. As I was enlighten by the article, if I were given a chance to impose a regulatory law in the Philippines, I would basically focus on limiting the factories per region in which it will not cause big harm in the environment. We cannot deny in the present situation of the Philippines, we need this transnational companies, but how could the government of the Philippines atleast regulate the accessibility of the protected natural resources of the country from over consuming? Second is, in the past weeks, there is this news report in which it was topic there that, there are companies who get foreign workers like chines instead of Filipinos. The question is, how will the workers will the government advertise Filipino workers not just only in the country but the whole world as well? And lastly, how could we protect our immigrant outside the boundary of the country? Because as we know Filipinos are scattered all over the globe and I’m curious on how could the government response to their distress.