Robby Douglas
Cultural Geography
GEOGRAPHY and GLOBALIZATION Affect Everyone Everyday
GLOBALIZATION allows me to buy stuff.
Geography and Globalization
Globalization
Geography
GEOGRAPHY Impacts Everyone
New York City, NY
Bangkok, Thailand
Dubai
GLOBALIZATION Impacts Everyone
Resources Move
Shoes
PUMA
Futsal/ Indoor Soccer
PUMA Logo
PUMA Racing
Vietnam
Shipping Containers
Rubber Farms
Problems with Globalization feat, PUMA
-Environmental:In July 2011, Puma –was the subject of a report by the environmental group Greenpeace entitled 'Dirty Laundry'. Youngor Group located on the Yangzte River Delta and another belonging to the Well Dyeing Factory Ltd., located on a tributary of the Pearl River Delta, revealed the presence of hazardous and persistent hormone disruptor chemicals
–Technological: PUMA’s mobile sight has a few speed problems and isn’t as easy and user friendly as its rival, adidas.
-Cultural: PUMA is based out of the same country as its rival, ADIDAS, which means that they both have to pitch their ideas to the same culture. They could do much better if they were based out of a different country and could get more ideas. Plus, they are mainly European whichj could lead to a loss of other countries’ inputs
–Economic: Puma has not yet made a full commitment to pay a living wage. Puma is currently undertaking research into finding a practical solution to the problem of low wages in Asia, and is working with suppliers in Indonesia, India, and Cambodia to assess the feasibility of a minimum living wage. In the meanwhile, Puma has admitted that it is still trying to achieving full compliance with the minimum wage at a number of its suppliers.
Solving the Cultural Problem
If Puma were to get more people from different countries to help with more ideas then they could maybe start to not follow the beaten path in Germany and start to generate new concepts.
Pros of Globalization
-Speeds up Proesses
-Makes a better, more involved world
nImproves ideas
nPromotes a more perfect and integrated world
Cons of Globalization
-Outsourcing
-Miscommunication
-Hacking(technology)
-Patents throughout countries
Globalization, Geography, and Me
This is how globalization relates to me: Globalization affects my life just like everyone else's. I use products that weren’t even thought of when my great grandparents were alive. Without globalization we wouldn’t have phones, modern shoes, or modern clothes. The PUMA cleats I wear have gone from ideas and leather in Germany and petroleum in the middle east to Vietnam to be made and then to shipping facilities world wide to finally end up at the Sport’s Authority I bought it from. It went through all of these processes to finally end up on my feet.