In fact, the critics of globalization have this one totally wrong. Every statistic suggests that countries that open themselves to globalization grow faster than those that wall themselves off. Not only does globalization spur economic growth in every country that embraces it. But every statistic also suggests that the poor in every country that embraces globalization benefit, over time, as much as the rich in those countries. So globalization not only benefits poor countries, it benefits the poorest people in all countries.
Globalization is resisted mightily for two broad reasons.
In many places, people just resent the Americanization of their cultures. And there is much to resent. Certain aspects of American popular culture the depravity and the coarseness, the violence and the sexuality are eminently worth resenting. But even more powerfully, globalization disrupts everything, everywhere. What had been valued becomes, all too often, debased, and what had been depreciated becomes valued.