# Faces of Globalization 4 Videos November 12, 2024 “Globalization” typically evokes thoughts of container ships or trade agreements, but real globalization is billions of humans cooperating in billions of ways, without direction from any one person, company, or government. This video series documents some of the many real-life faces of globalization, in ways that challenge the current conventional wisdom about trade, migration, and our daily lives. Featuring [Scott Lincicome](https://www.cato.org/people/scott-lincicome) [ Watch Videos ](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/exploring-real-faces-globalization#video-series-playlist-wrapper) ## Videos Also available [ Watch on YouTube ](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2w2AA116bYV3MDA6pO_ooY6A5_8z13d4) [![Defending Globalization logo with earth illustration](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/promo_block/public/2023-09/defending_globalization.jpg?itok=te_TH3fL)](https://www.cato.org/defending-globalization) ##### Project ### [Defending Globalization](https://www.cato.org/defending-globalization) Defending Globalization is a new Cato Institute multimedia project on all aspects of the fundamentally human activity that we call globalization. [View Project](/defending-globalization) [ ![Scott Lincicome introduces the The Real Faces of Globalization](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2024-11/real_faces_globalization_thumb2%201.jpg?itok=VsfgDT7O) ](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/exploring-real-faces-globalization#video-series-playlist-wrapper)##### [ Exploring the Real *Faces of Globalization*](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/exploring-real-faces-globalization#video-series-playlist-wrapper) 06:14 Cato Institute Vice President Scott Lincicome discusses the motivation behind the *Faces of Globalization* video series and the Defending Globalization project. [ ![From Textile Town to Ghost Town](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2024-11/from-textile-town-to-ghost-town-img.jpg?itok=TZFuhZoJ) ](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/textile-town-ghost-town-car-town-west-point-georgia#video-series-playlist-wrapper)##### [From Textile Town to Ghost Town to Car Town: West Point, Georgia](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/textile-town-ghost-town-car-town-west-point-georgia#video-series-playlist-wrapper) 07:07 Once a textile town hurt by globalization, West Point, Georgia, has been reborn thanks to those same economic forces, boosting thousands of lives along the way. [ ![More than Just a "Cheap T-Shirt" image](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2024-11/more-than-a-cheap-t-shirt.jpg?itok=jm1P2v8Y) ](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/more-just-cheap-t-shirt-guatemala-textiles#video-series-playlist-wrapper)##### [More Than Just a “Cheap T‑Shirt”: Guatemala Textiles](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/more-just-cheap-t-shirt-guatemala-textiles#video-series-playlist-wrapper) 07:38 “Cheap T‑shirts” help Americans stretch their budgets and help these Guatemalans—and millions of others like them—escape poverty. [ ![Globalization for Fun and Profit](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2024-11/globalization-for-fun-and-profit.jpg?itok=lbjVOsbt) ](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/globalization-fun-profit-digital-gaming-economy#video-series-playlist-wrapper)##### [Globalization for Fun and Profit: The Digital Gaming Economy](https://www.cato.org/video-series/faces-globalization/globalization-fun-profit-digital-gaming-economy#video-series-playlist-wrapper) 07:05 Gamers are the new, fresh faces of digital trade and *21st-century* globalization, and they’re part of an industry that today dwarfs music and movies combined. ##### Related Content [![Defending Globalization - world map banner dark](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2023-09/MicrosoftTeams-image%20%281%29.png?itok=yCQNXGGY)](https://www.cato.org/publications/introducing-defending-globalization-new-cato-institute-project) Publications ### [Introducing Defending Globalization, a New Cato Institute Project](/publications/introducing-defending-globalization-new-cato-institute-project) By [Scott Lincicome](https://www.cato.org/people/scott-lincicome) Globalization faces renewed attention—and criticism. Like any market phenomenon, the free movement of people, things, money, and ideas across natural or political borders is imperfect and often disruptive. But it has also produced undeniable benefits—for the United States and the world—that no other system can match. And it’s been going on since the dawn of recorded history. [![Defending Globalization - Teens Reaching for Globe - Banner](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2023-08/dg-globe-banner.jpg?itok=7QpPNDfl)](https://www.cato.org/publications/moral-case-globalization) Publications ### [The Moral Case for Globalization](/publications/moral-case-globalization) By [Tom G. Palmer](https://www.cato.org/people/tom-g-palmer) Globalization has had tremendous net benefits, and the freedom to move, trade, and think is central to being human. [![Free Society Vol. 1 No. 2 - Globalization Is about People - Hero ](/sites/cato.org/files/styles/content_teaser/public/2024-06/FS-globalization-1.png?itok=fw2eOb_A)](https://www.cato.org/free-society/summer-2024/globalization-about-people-not-governments) Free Society ### [Globalization Is about People, Not Governments](/free-society/summer-2024/globalization-about-people-not-governments) By [Scott Lincicome](https://www.cato.org/people/scott-lincicome) Populist calls for the “death of globalization” ignore not only the practical and moral benefits of open markets but also their fundamental humanity.