I thought it was interesting how the chapter starts with "I think every Barbie doll is more harmful than an American missile"...and the article goes on to explain how Barbie and Ken images are depicted in America compared to the images of similar dolls Sara and Dara in Iran. Growing up, I never realized that Barbie and Ken were never actually married and the image of their relationships is based on materialistic things. Additionally, I thought it was intriguing that the author connected the two concept of dolls by stating that both dolls were made in China.
What factors contributed to economic globalization during the 20th century?
Technology contributed to economic globalization. Shipping in containers, huge oil tankers, and air express services were all part of an upgrade in technology. Population growth also contributed to globalization. It created modern independence while entering the world economy.
What ways has economic globalization linked the worlds peoples more closely together?
Department stores and supermarkets were stocking their shelves with goods from all over the world. Additionally, foreign direct investment, money motion, and capital movement linked economic globalization of world peoples closely together. Foreign investment allowed countries like the United States to open factories in China and Mexico and take advantage of cheap labor, tax breaks, and looser environmental regulations.
What new or sharper division has economic globalization generated?
Globalization has generated economic growth in world history. Life expectancies increased, infant mortality declined and literacy increased as well. Additionally, poverty has fallen, and availability for foreign aid has increased and representation in international economic organization.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
chapter 23
What was distinctive about the end of Europe's African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration?
It was distinctive because "never before had an empire been so associated with the mobilization of masses around a nationalist ideology" (p.692). Additionally the new nations claimed status that was equivalent to that of their former rulers. African and Asians wanted political independence but also the bases of their cultures in mind. Furthermore, the European colonies threw off British, French, Spanish and Portuguese rule during the late eighteenth century.
What was the role of Gandhi in India's struggle for independence?
Ghandi quickly rose within the leadership ranks of the INC. He applied his approach in periodic mass campaigns that drew a widespread of Indians. He had a simple lifestyle. He rejected modern industrialization. He did not call for social revolution but moral transformation. He wanted to see India as "...self-sufficent villages drawing on ancient Indian principles of duty and morality" (p.698).
What conflicts and differences divided India's nationalist movement?
The country was divided by Muslims and Hindus. All-India Muslim League contradicted the congress party's claim to speak for all Indians. Muslims were afraid they would not be heard due to the large Hindu population. The leader of the Muslim League argued that the Muslim minority should have a separate political status.
It was distinctive because "never before had an empire been so associated with the mobilization of masses around a nationalist ideology" (p.692). Additionally the new nations claimed status that was equivalent to that of their former rulers. African and Asians wanted political independence but also the bases of their cultures in mind. Furthermore, the European colonies threw off British, French, Spanish and Portuguese rule during the late eighteenth century.
What was the role of Gandhi in India's struggle for independence?
Ghandi quickly rose within the leadership ranks of the INC. He applied his approach in periodic mass campaigns that drew a widespread of Indians. He had a simple lifestyle. He rejected modern industrialization. He did not call for social revolution but moral transformation. He wanted to see India as "...self-sufficent villages drawing on ancient Indian principles of duty and morality" (p.698).
What conflicts and differences divided India's nationalist movement?
The country was divided by Muslims and Hindus. All-India Muslim League contradicted the congress party's claim to speak for all Indians. Muslims were afraid they would not be heard due to the large Hindu population. The leader of the Muslim League argued that the Muslim minority should have a separate political status.
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Imagine living in a country where poverty and corruption exist within the government and the rulers have unlimited power. The voice and the opinion of the citizens do not make a difference towards gaining equality. Envision helpless people who want to live in a city where voices are not oppressed and the government provides support for the citizens. The cities in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula perhaps learned from the small and local occurrence in Tunisia and felt the same pain that the man in Tunisia felt. The anger and frustration that was caused by living in a city with corrupt government officials and high poverty levels resulted in civilians in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula to rebel against their government. The revolutions echo one another demonstrating the fight for equality, abolishment of oppression and economic and political reform.
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