The Role Of Globalization In Modern America

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The globalization in modern America has effect in every one’s life especially the minority groups. Because of these globalization corporations had hard workers like me lay off from job without offering any benefits so they can make more profit by paying low wages to workers in India, Indonesia or any other third world countries.
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After all the studies and researches has been done throughout the centuries, we still living in the world of struggle for comfortable life. Around the world, societies are trying and demanding that governments stop the outsourcing and leave the jobs for people of their own country, but the corporate greed does not listen to these demands. Workers all around the world have to united and stop this corporate

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