(AI65)大家一起来写作ISSUE: 全球趋同题

"The rise of multinational corporations is leading to global homogeneity. People everywhere are beginning to want the same products and services, and regional differences are rapidly disappearing." "Homogeneity: sameness, similarity."

Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion expressed above. Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples based on your own experience, your observations, or your reading.

My idea & syllabus:

The rise of multinational corporations is leading to global homogeneity.

Reason 1:

Multinational corporations have comparatively greater advantages over regional companies or local small business and they are rapidly dominating the global markets of all fields.

Greater advantages: stronger financial backgrounds; more skillful marketing techniques; 

Dominating global markets: some examples

Reason 2:

Multinational corporations lead the consuming homogeneous concepts and habits globally while quickly squeezing out their smaller competitors. + one example (e.g Microsoft )

Reason 3:

Some people may argue that people in different regions still maintain their own favors. For example, some fast foods, like Mc Donald, actually taste differently in different country. Mc Donald do not use lard in India to respect the religious belief of most Indian people. However, evidences like this are not sufficient to sustain the conclusion that regional differences are still reserved….

My syllabus

The speaker here think all people will want the same products and services because the global homogeneity. Under this assumption, all the people will want to have the exactly the same products, while nobody will like different. The assumption has several serious problems with it.

First, people like different, that is most of people want to have own characteristic that is different with others. (Most of people will feel embarrass when she/he wear the exactly clothes with someone in the same occasion. Another example: surgery.)

Second, advocating the homogeneity will give obstacle to the improvement of the human society. (Advocating the homogeneity is not unlike forbidding people to like the same products)