Global Diversity

"Diversity and inclusion is a key business imperative for us. The rich tapestry of our customers, markets, employees, and suppliers reflect the diverse nature of our global business." - Antonio M. Perez, Kodak Chairman and CEO

What is globalization? It is a process of increasing global connectivity and integration between nation-states, households/individuals corporations and other organizations. It refers to an increased interdependence in the economic, social, technological, cultural, political, and ecological field. There have been many approaches on how to deal correctly with globalization but of the many approaches created in past decades, Global Diversity is the answer for globalization. Global Diversity promotes agricultural, biological and cultural diversity around the world and in order for globalization and global diversity to go hand-in-hand it requires education, research and hard work to make things run smoothly.

Many believe that globalization will lead to the destruction of cultures in many nations because they will no longer be unique, instead they would be a homogenized nation which will no longer value traditional cultures. Yes, it is true that homogenization is related to globalization but through a global diversity approach, it will be inevitable for cultures to come in contact with new forms of living. One factor that global diversity promotes is cultural diversity which allows for the integration of new ideas from abroad to be assimilated to the traditional culture of nations. With the spread of new ideas people from less-developed nations will at have some knowledge as to how to improve their lifestyle. New ideas could be economically, technologically, politically and/or socially related; therefore each community with their own culture would be gaining knowledge from the outside world by allowing the mixture of cultures. People will learn new languages, new customs, new values, new ways to live and all the meanwhile enlightening their traditional culture with new ideals. No one culture will vanish from a nation instead it will evolve and will still retain traditional values worth keeping.

Global diversity will not allow for a "homogenous" world to be created, in contrast it is simply and approach which would create a nation that includes distinct cultural groups with equal status. A country would be evolving into a greater nation; it would become a richer nation because of all the innovative proposals brought on by globalization. There are so many great things that one nation can offer to another so why prevent that from happening, globalization will help more nations grow through a global diversity approach.

A second factor promoted through global diversity is biodiversity. There exist many definitions for biodiversity but the following are a bit more straightforward, 1) variation of life at all levels of biological organization, 2) a measure of the relative diversity among organisms present in different ecosystems, and 3) totality of genes, species, and ecosystems of a region. In other terms it would be referring to plant, animal, and human life on Earth. How is this of importance in relation to globalization?

Through biodiversity and globalization people across nations will have alternate opinions on how to deal with the environment and human rights. A nation cannot grow if its primary sources are not well, how can a nation grow if it's abusing human rights? How will it be able to do business if its environment is not taken care of? Globalization through biodiversity will force nations to improve their current environmental and individual issues. Globalization may create jobs abroad to help those in need of them, and along with jobs, nations will have to create laws under which people will be protected by. The environment of a nation will improve, by creating awareness as to the dangers caused by not properly treating it. Once the environmental and individual issues are taken care of, a country will have more opportunities to do business with other countries. By having improved its environment, raw materials/products will be more available for exporting thus increasing the