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               the society, they were not concerned about  social, political, cultural, and environmental
               the impact of globalization and AEC, and they  changes. These changes bring about various
               offered no information about suitable prepa-  events which seem to be happening within
               rations.                                  a short period of time.
                                                                 - Capital and free trade focuses on
               Perception of NGO staff members about
                                                         competitive advantages and the ability to
               AEC and globalization
                                                         freely trade in goods for which they may lack
                   Informants within this group had learned  experience in manufacturing, thus increasing

               and understood well the fundamental defini-  efficiency and profitability for each country.
               tions concerning AEC and globalization.           - Dynamic movements and develop-
               They explained that AEC refers mainly to an  ment is occurring everywhere all the time.
               association of 10 neighboring countries, in-      - People can become çcolonizedé as
               cluding Thailand, the purpose of which is to  a result of their beliefs and economic, educa-
               provide mutual economic benefits for the  tional, and cultural motivation, which can
               whole of ASEAN, as well as in terms of coun-  serve as tools for numerous countries to domi-
               terbalancing their other trading partners. AEC  nate others. They believe that the goal of such
               will create and encourage çfree tradeé among  çcolonizationé is to drain the resources of the
               the member countries, and the import and  colonized countries and take advantage of
               export of goods will be tax-free, with the ex-  them.
               ception of a few goods. Regarding globaliza-
                                                         Awareness of NGO staff members about
               tion, they referred to this phenomenon as a
                                                         the impact of AEC and globalization
               global connection without any barrier in re-
               laying information from one party to another.  Positive impacts:
               Despite the settlement of people and loca-        - High technology makes connec-
               tion of communities worldwide, people are  tions easier. People have developed efficient
               able to recognize and become greatly affected  communication systems to communicate
               by events that may occur rapidly. It is the  easily and share information.
               result as well of efficient communication and     - Able to obtain more benefits from
               transportation of technology within the infor-  sharing information.
               mation era. As a result of globalization, there  Negative impacts:
               are overlapping patterns. Globalization covers    - The major ecological impact is the
               the countries of the world, whereas AEC   absence of natural resources owing to changes

               covers only a group of countries. Moreover,  in the manufacturing system from rice and
               they stated that the impacts of globalization  garden crops to rubber. Owners should pre-
               and AEC are as follows:                   pare areas suitable for the planting of rubber
                      - Rapid changes include economic,  trees by cutting down other trees and dig-
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