Argumentative Essay On Modern Slavery

Jimmy Carter emphasized, “Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.” It’s difficult to give a rigorous definition for globalization and to name its consequences, since the term is becoming more popular in many different aspects. As Carter suggested, we are seeing mostly the surfaces of the phenomenon, which are the Internet, cell phones and computers, or technology and innovations. Nevertheless, there are still so many controversies taking place around that affect the other “two-thirds of the people of the world.” I had the chance to attend and was fascinated by three talks that addressed these events directly: The British Social Welfare Office by Dr. Robin Chapdelaine from Denison University, Making Language Relevant by Dr. Gabriele Dillmann from Denison University and
Even though “under protection”, the children were still the victims of child pawns, child brides and kidnapping. What is more upsetting is that all of the above were examples of child labors, or “modern slavery”, as what Kevin Bales suggested in his book Modern Slavery. Going back to the quotation by Jimmy Carter, it can be seen from this story how globalization has its negative consequences. It’s the need for domestic productive and reproductive labor from a colonial country that acted as an opposite force to the international forces to protect children. People, especially children, were treated as commodities through a variety form of forced labor. Even though the event happened a while ago, Kevin Bales gives a definition for modern slavery in the present tense – slavery still exists these days, for no matter how different many forms it has, slavery is still a violation to the rights of