You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic: Most people accept that we now live in a globalised world but not everyone agrees that this is beneficial.
To what extent is globalisation a positive or negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.

Globalization is a phenomenon which is happening very strong nowadays. It affects our every-day lives and like another phenomenon, it also has its pros and cons. Globalization has a lot of advantages about a lot of different fields and aspects of lives. Firstly, thanks for globalization, trading goods between a lot of countries become more easily and convenient than ever before. For instance, that country develop and produce new products which can help people to improve the quality of lives, they can share it to other countries to use it. Globalization help trading and also business become better. Secondly, nowadays, we just need one status on social media, other people see and then they share to a lot more people and finally that status or story become famous faster than ever. People now including children and adults use social media almost every day. So they can update and know new trend very fast or learn a lot of good actions, stories, or make friends with everyone from all over the world. Next, about education, we can study aboard online just through a screen which is connected to the Internet. And we can study both language and culture from any countries in the world. Why? Because everything we need is in the Internet. We just need to find a good and reputable website to learn. Or if we want to know more about the Covid-19 situation in any countries, it is on the Internet. So, globalization has given us a lot benefits which can help us to improve our lives, learning become easier. Although globalization has a lot good effects, we cannot ignore its bad sides. While this phenomenon creates a chance for people to learn and know more about other cultures, it also leads the dominant culture to permeate the native one. This problem happens more and more, and the original culture may be extinct because the natives had forgot it and go with the trend. People can live like people that lived in the countries they like, but they cannot forget their origin or where they came from. So, globalization has brought bad effect to human. Not only that, while globalization helps to increase economic growth, the growth is not equal because rich countries have more benefits than the poor one. Moreover, globalization leads to lack of local businesses when the multinational companies appear. In conclusion, globalization has helped our human to improve our lives a lot although it has so many bad effects which is needed to solve as soon as possible.