What are some advantages and disadvantages of cultural globalization?

First,
it's important to note that globalization has always been around. Polynesians sailed to the
Americas thousands of years ago. They brought their boa designs to the Americas and brought
chickens and sweet potatoes back to Polynesia. Thousands of years before that, the Inuit sailed
to Europe and brought the harpoon to Europeans. What has changed is mostly the speed and scale
of globalization.

The worst effect of globalization is that it enables the
great increase in power and wealth of corporations and other undemocratic forces. Multinational
companies often gain more power than nations and peoples do, as when Coca Cola tried to seize
the public water of Bolivia or when IT&T worked with the CIA to overthrow the democratic
government of Chile. Often global capitalism brings destructive ideas in the name of profit, as
when anorexia and bulimia become widespread in cultures that before viewed being overweight as a
sign of prosperity rather than unattractive.

But globalization's
speed...