we attended the lecture at the MPH on the 13/12/10. The main theme of the day was Globalizing Malaysia 2020.The main speaker f the day was Tun Dr Mahathir Mohammed.
As he started his lecture the doctor said globalization started in 1492, when Colombas crossed the Atlantic and found the weapon hemisphere and he crossed into the Indian ocean to discover the true India, south & east Asia. Dr Tun continues saying that the culture, which is the way of life that the Europeans have developed has enabled them to establish a very high civilization. since then the whole world is focused on Europe.
Europeans came to Asia to trade and they came armed because they also did fight as well as a way of cheating, that was one of the things that differ from the avian way of trading.He went on talking about how the Europeans influenced the thinking of people in Asia.He said this was the beginning of globalization, which on other hand can be called Eurocetrizim. He gave example of Japan as the most country that took the European way of doing things. Since the most powerful countries were from Europe so Malaysia decided that their globalization should include the process of coping from the west.
The doctor emphasized on the point that the world is a round ball what we call globe, so this made globalization meaningful. He talked about the mode of transport and communication that was used in the olden days and the modern days. It will take months to travel from one place to another or to send message but this days it takes days to travel to travel if not hours and takes seconds to send message. The world has become very small because we can communicate to people who are miles away as if they are in the next room. So this make globalization to consume a new meaning. "We have become a globalized village whether we like it or not we are going to feel the impact of other cultures" said the doctor.
Dr Tun went on to say when we talk about globalization , is the concept which came from the rich countries of the west. He said globalization is gong to affect us in both ways good or bad, its going to reduce our independence and in the other hand we will benefit the development in the other parts of the world, certainly in terms of technology. He said this days whatever you do where ever you are will have an impact on the other person in the other parts of the world.
"We cannot house what is good without also filling the impact of what is bad" he said.
The most important thing he said about globalization of the market is that Malaysia can now sell their products to the whole world and therefore they make good profit. He said without the world market we cannot be able to enrich our country and we cannot grow. He said Malaysians should remember that they are dependent o the world market.So if we went to export more we must produce things that can be exported and this rest in education in Malaysia.
Talking about Malaysian education he said at first there was one university today there is sixty universities. He said the good thing about being educated is that you have capability to earn more money for yourself, but producing things we can sell to the rest of the world. He went on saying education help in terms of being able to use the imported things which is part of benefiting from globalization.
when he came to conclusion he emphasized on a point of contributing towards the development of this country as the citizens. He said the only way to meet this is by inquiring new skills from other countries. We have to have the knowledge and the skills in order to compete global, there is noway we can prosper, so this is what globalization for Malaysians will mean for the year 2020.
