Chapter 1 Flashcards

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What are examples of globalization?

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Social, Economic, and Political

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What is globalization?

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the process that is making the world citizens increasingly interdependent economically, politically, socially environmentally, and technologically

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What is a pluralistic society?

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A society in which a diversity of languages beliefs traditions values religions and other aspects of culture are embedded as a part of the foundations of the country; society that respects and values the individual and collective opinions and identities of other people

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What are transnationals?

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Corporations that operate in two or more countries

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What is a society?

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A group of people who farm and ordered community centered of kinship and ideology, a religion, or a particular world view

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What is the “the global village”?

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The idea, popularized by Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s that the entire world and its inhabitants are becoming one large community interconnected by technology, particularly television

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What is the Group of Eight(G-8) and examples?

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And informal group of eight major industries

eg: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom(UK), and the United States(US)

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What is the NATO?

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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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