Notes

1,Close to nothing comes from a local place, you don’t know how the workers are being treated, if the workers ARe being treated badly then you are supporting it by buying bananas from these big corporations. Bananas don’t grow in Canada, so we have no choice but to buy bananas that are the result of child labour
2,If the economy is bad in one place the products will cost more
3,No labour laws
4,They put their children to work in the banana fields
5,They’re small, local businesses that can’t achieve the same economy of scale as the big banana plantations, so their costs are higher than the transnationals to make money
6,They put tariffs on the bananas
7,The WTO owns 150 countries. It governs how its members trade with eachother
8,The american company, chiquita, protested and got the US government to take
the case to the WTO. the WTO decided that the European countries must trade some of their trade rules
9,focusing on growing just ONE type of banana means that pests and diseases can spread quickly and wipe out the crop. On the bright side, pesticides and herbicides can be used to ward off pests and weeds
10, To keep crops healthy, maintain high production levels, and ensure that bananas shipped to the public appeal to customers cause they look the same with no flaws.
11,People are more willing to buy inexpensive food because they’res stingy, can’t afford organic bananas, or don’t realize the harm that non organic banana production can do to the earth.
part 2
How is identity affected by economic, political, environmental, and social dimensions of globalization?
Identity is affected by economic dimensions of globalization because if the economy sucks, and you’re poor because the economy sucks because you got laid off, then you as a person may change, become more bitter, depressed, or be unable to support your family and that triggers a whole new change
Identity is affected by political dimensions of globalization because everything is controlled by politics. For example, if a new political party won an election and made a new law that we-won’t-trade-with-this-country-that-we-usually-trade-with then you, as someone who works a transnational plantation, may go out of business
Identity is affected by environmental dimensions of globalization because the world relies on the environment. Take the lubicon cree for example, their forests got cut down, rivers got poisoned, and all the animals scared off. That definitely affected the members of the lubicon cree.
Identity is affected by social dimensions of globalization because it’s unfair. In Ecuador, men had to go work their butts off for 6 dollars, the women had to work and got paid less than the men, and it still wasn’t enough to live on, so their kids had to work too, and so the kids didn’t get an education. If the whole situation had been kinder, then the kids could have gone to school, grown up to be a doctor, done amazing things, but they didn’t get to, just because people wanted bananas
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