Unit 4 Global Citizenship

Question 1

your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort).

Answer 1

quality of life

Question 2

any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law.

Answer 2

human rights

Question 3

the capacity and the inclination to place people, objects, situations and the self in the broader matrix of our contemporary world.

Answer 3

global consciousness:

Question 4

• is aware of the wider world and has a sense of their own role as a world citizen;
• respects and values diversity;
• has an understanding of how the world works economically, politically, socially, culturally, technologically and environmentally;
• is outraged by social injustice;
• participates in and contributes to the community at a range of levels from local to global;
• is willing to act to make the world a more sustainable place;
• takes responsibility for their actions.

Answer 4

global citizens is someone who:

Question 5

• gender issues
• labour issues
• opportunities for entrepreneurship

Answer 5

impacts of globalization on women:

Question 6

• awareness of global issues
• employment issues
• identity

Answer 6

impacts of globalization on children and youth:

Question 7

proponents or supporters who see see globalization as a positive force in the world.

Answer 7

• pro-globalization activists

Question 8

opposition to the increase in the global power and influence of businesses, esp. multinational corporations.

Answer 8

• anti-globalization activism

Question 9

• pro-globalization activism:
• anti-globalization activism:
• consumer activism:
• corporate responsibility
• civil responsibilities

Answer 9

Means by which individuals, governments, organizations and businesses could address opportunities and challenges of globalization

Question 10

Examples of pro-globalization activism

Answer 10

fighting for economic liberalism and free trade
neoliberalism movements
internatlonal cooperation

Question 11

Examples of anti-globalization activism:
(opposition to capital market integration, social justice and inequality, anti-consumerism, anti-global governance and environmentalist opposition)

Answer 11

church groups, national liberation factions, unionists, intellectuals, artists, protectionists, anarchists, those in support of relocalization (e.g., consumption of nearby production)

Question 12

examples of consumer activism

Answer 12

activism undertaken on behalf of consumers, to assert consumer rights.