Since Bulgaria has joined the European Union, there were some changes. New factories were opened, new working places were created. The branch was subsidized and the things were going well… until the world economic crisis, which is a globalization consequence. Now these factories are closing because of bankruptcy and people are becoming unemployed… again.
This is just one example of people moving from one place to another because of certain circumstances caused mainly be the phenomenon called globalization.
How about immigration? Now, when Bulgaria joined the European Union, people can more easily go to work and live in a different country. There is almost no language barrier, as you can communicate with most people in English. This causes great damage to the state, because mainly young people go abroad to educate themselves, live and have a family and contribute in the development of other states. And Bulgaria stays with the old people and the ones that are not competitive enough to go outside in the “unknown” as some of them say.
While Bulgaria was “closed”, the difference in life quality and standard was not obvious. Everyone seemed to be happy or at least calm in his/hers reality. Now the first opening to the World, caused by the globalization, brought with itself the awareness of people. They realized how different their reality from the European one is, and inevitably most of them packed their cases and went in a passionate impulse to the West. Of course, many of them /the not so educated ones, as statistics says/ came back, because they didn’t manage to cope with the requirements and different standards, but many more talented and smart – stayed, which caused and keeps causing great impact on Bulgaria as a state.
Of course, there is a good point of view as well. With no barriers, these smart people have the chance to develop their skills and get realized in what they strive for.
Internet:
Internet is one of the main powers of globalization. Nowadays people can study, buy different thing from a book to a super luxury car, browse for all sorts of information, sell different things, express him/herself via online based photography galleries, meet new people, find a job and do numerous sorts of thing just within a click of the mouse. Whether you are a university professor with a high speed Internet connection or a poor kid in Asia with access to an Internet café, you have the same basic access to research information. The Internet puts an enormous amount of information at our fingertips. Essentially, all of the information on the Internet is available to anyone, anywhere, at anytime.
Now, when you go to the coffee you can have an instant access to the World Wide Web via your laptop or mobile phone. This is also valid for the public parks and all other places, where people go. For example, it is popular between young people, and not only, to communicate via Voice over IP /VOIP/ based programs like Skype for instance, or ICQ. They talk or chat with each other, and with the Internet accessible from almost everywhere, this is becoming a really popular way to communicate. Of course, like everything, there is a good and a bad side. The good sides obviously are the instantaneous, tax free delivery of messages, and the cheap telephone talk. The other side is estrangement between people, who sometimes tend to forget what the real face to face talk is. This is common for young people, some of who stay before the computer browsing in the Internet and chatting all day long.
Crime:
Criminal globalization has the greatest impact on our lives today. Together with the economical, political and informational globalization is the criminal globalization, under the form of which is the intensive development of national and international organized crime. The high level of instantaneous communication and the intensive international contacts, widen the social base on which both types of crime are existing today. They bet on using threat and violence under various forms as a main tool for influencing the authority and its representatives (businessman and politicians) as well as the competition in legal or illegal business. They aim new redistribution of the influential spheres, reorientation of their own legal or illegal money floats and reorganization of the various types of criminal or legitimate activity.
Here in Bulgaria, the criminal situation is characterized with particular complexity, dynamics and tension. The level of crime is rising constantly in all kind of forms. The criminals are getting more and more professional and organized in groups. It is enough just to look at the daily press or browse the Internet, to see how many high and low level crimes are taking place every day. Not including the pick-pockets and etcetera.
It is a process in progress now, for young people to become criminals. In the virtual world of television, cinema and internet there is a constant demonstration of violence and criminal motive, which catch the attention of the youth and the wide public. And getting used and interested in criminal affairs are no less dangerous tendencies.
If we take a look of the social characteristics of the disclosure and conviction of criminals, the prosecution and the court are orientated mainly to the poor, low-placed and weekly adapted criminal layer of the population. These criminals are doing the obvious, traditional crimes and are unable to protect themselves or pay the bail. The crime of the authority, the intellect and the wealth are main authors of physical, moral and material damage… and they are practically left untouched. The confidence of the ordinary people, in the state - lost.
The penetration of the crime in authority in different levels, especially in our country, is acquiring scales which are seriously destabilizing the authority’s strictures and institutions… this is causing great damage on all people’s lives.
By Marin Marinov Изготвил: Марин Маринов
Sofia 2009 София 2009
by
nirolo (student)
