Finals for Intl 101
43 Cards in this Set
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Food Insecurity
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Lack of secure access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food for normal growth, development, and an active healthy life
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Sports and Globalization
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NBA: Broadcasts in 40+ languages, in 212 countries (80/430 players are international)
FIFA: 200 national members
MLB: "Pipeline" between Dominican Republic and U.S. (Major League runs training camps)
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The Global Music Project
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Aims to preserve the uniqueness of different forms of music
Promotes cross-cultural appreciation for music and the unique culture it represents
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Culture
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Set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features of society or a social group that encompasses everything
Basic needs that brought people together/unified them: Food, water, and shelter
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Culture Shock
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Physical and psychological response to the cultural differences when traveling away from home
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Capitalism
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A system of economic organization based on private property and free markets
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Adam Smith
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Wrote "The Wealth of the Nations" (1776)
Coined the invisible hand
Father of modern economics
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Alexander Von Humboldt
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The father of geography
Coined the word geography
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Geographic Borders
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Main unit of analysis: Physical Earth
Field of Study: Geography
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Politcial Borders
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Main unit of analysis: States
Field of study: Political Science
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Economic Borders
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Main unit of analysis: Markets
Field of study: Economics
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Social Borders
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Main unit of analysis: Class
Field of study: Sociology
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Cultural Borders
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Main unit of analysis: Nations
Field of study: Anthropology
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Bretton Woods
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1944
Established: IMF, World Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)
Helped the core countries and the expense of peripheral countries (Good for Northern countries, harmed the Global South)
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Globalization
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Political, economic, social, and cultural flows across an international system
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Globalization Benefits
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Allows up to interact with others more than ever before, can improve standards of living, connects people globally, creates jobs, increases education
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Cartography
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The depiction of physical and human-made borders
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Global Issues
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Challenges that transcend state boundaries and require a collective response.
Global Warming, human rights protection, poverty, education, etc.
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International Migration
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Movement of people, happening as an accelerated and unprecedented rate
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Comparative Advantage
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Countries should produce and export what they're best at
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The Developmental Model of Intercultural Sensitivity (DMIS)
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Developed by Milton Bennet
How people or groups tend to think/feel about cultural differences
Stages:
1. Denial (isolation)
2. Defense (denigration)
3. Minimization (physical integration)
4. Acceptance (respect)
5. Adaptation (empathy)
6. Integration (contextual __)
Stages 1…
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Milton Bennet
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Developed the DMIS
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Digitization
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The conversion of information to a computer ready format
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Malthusian Dilemma
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The conflict inherent in the idea that the growth of the world's population increases geometrically whereas the production of food can only increase arithetically
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Digital Divide
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Unequal access to the Internet that separates those who have it and those who do not
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The World is Flat
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By: Thomas Friedman
Flattening of the World in 5 Steps:
1. China
2. Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
3. India
4. Supply Chains (Wal-Mart)
5. Internet (1991): First webpage and Netscape (1995)
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Emerging Economic Centers
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Russia
China
India
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Studying Abroad
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U.K. in the #1 place for Americans to travel
China is the #1 place for international students to travel
Benefits: Exposure to foreign culture, make contacts and relationships, traveling, good on resume, language skills
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Service Learning
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Work with agencies/NGO's with an international agenda
Volunteer to assist immigrant groups
About 600 VCU students go abroad yearly
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The Open Door 2011
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The total number of American students studying abroad has tripled over the past two decades
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The United Nations
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1945
Security Council (Big 5): The United States, Russia, France, England, China
Committed to:
1. Maintaining international peace
2. Developing friendly relations among nations
3. Promoting social progress, better living and human rights
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Industrial Revolution
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The transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from 1760-1820
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Cyberterrorism
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The unlawful attack and manipulation of Internet information to further a personal or group's gain
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Niccolo' Machiavelli
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16th century Italy
Wrote: The Prince
Early conceptualization of realism - "The Ends justifies the means"
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The European Union
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Established 1993 by the Treaty of Maastricht, based on the European Economic Community
Formed on 3 Pillars:
1. European Community
2. Common Foreign and Security Policy
3. Police and Judicial Co-operation in Criminal Matters
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Treaty of Masstricht
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Signed February 7, 1992 by the members of the European Community
Formally the Treaty on European Union or TEU
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McDonaldization
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Describes a sociological phenomenon, takes a task and breaks it down into smaller tasks
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Containment
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Policy of the United States during the Cold War that checked aggressive Soviet actions by military alliances
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Realism
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Political philosophy that sees the struggle for power and the potential for conflict as a necessary evil in the pursuit of national interest
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International Law
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The regulation of relations among sovereign states emerging from customary practices
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Transferable Skills
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Talents and abilities that may be applied to a range of settings and job environments
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Intercultural Competance
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Ability to communicate effectively with people from different backgrounds and with different interests
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Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
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Leads international efforts to defeat hunger
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