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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Globalization Cartoon

This cartoon is talking about globalization. The main visual elements is a kid who doesn't want to do her homework, and an angry dad, telling the daughter to do it, instead of OUTSOURCING it. This is showing how that people outsource when they don't want to do work, and they want it to be done easier. It is using the example of a child because it is trying to represent what the companies are doing as child work. Instead of companies doing their own homework, they send it to other places to get it done cheaper and faster. The artist of this cartoon has a negative view on globalization because he uses a kid in it. This is also trying to show how kids are trying to do easier work, like globalization... showing how lazy America is. This relates to our study of globalazation because we learned that it is what companies do to get cheap and affordable labor, like what the little girl is trying to do. This cartoon is persuasive as it is... but maybe on the newspaper add some faint text about how bad globalization is or something along the lines of that.

1 comments:

Jake said...

This is a very good, insightful post. I think it is a very good point when you say the kid is representing the companies' use of children. Also, it is a good point how you said that it's showing how lazy America is, but I disagree about that. This is because if America was lazy, he would suggest for him to outsource his homework. Overall, though, a very good post!