Week 5 DQ 1: Globalization Read Does Globalization Help or Hurt the Worlds Poor?, answer the following: When considering the impact of globalization on the poor, what other benefits or costs to globalization should also be taken into account? How do these larger benefits or costs affect your analysis of the benefits or costs to the poor? I believe in the notion of hybridization as defined in the text. This takes the premise of cultural diffusion but argues interaction between foreign & local culture will affect the culture & result in changes to both. The McDonalds case study in the text is used as an example. Providing services throughout the world, the menu is culturally popular. The interaction of diffusion results in changes to be culturally relevant while also opening job...