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Define ethnocentrism

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The emotional attitude that one’s own race, nation, or culture is superior to all others.

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What is humanity’s common source?

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All people come from Africa.

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Where do people usually live? What are the exceptions?

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They live where they can grow food. Unless their location has infrastructures that allow movement of food and allows for cheaper shipping costs.

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What is “good dirt”?

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Areas with concentrations with population where they can grow food. (USA, Europe, India, eastern china..)

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What is globalization? What allows it?

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  • increasing interaction of people and places (economic, political, and cultural change)
  • Better communication and transportation.
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List examples of economic transformation. (5)

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  • multinational corporations
  • global free trade agreements
  • market economies (capitalism/no landowner)
  • global markets
  • globalization of labor
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What are the effects of global consumer culture?

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  • erodes local diversity
  • tension btw traditional cultures & external globalization influences
  • clothing, movies, food
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What are the environmental concerns of globalization? What could help it?

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  • disrupts local ecosystems
  • native ppl may lose resource base
  • it aggravates world enviro. problems (climate changes, water pollution, deforestation)

-international treaties may help

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There is more________________now more than ever before.

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Migration

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What are the criminal elements to globalization?

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  • drugs
  • pornography & prostitution
  • gambling
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What are the pros of globalization? (4)

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  • logical expression of capitalism
  • remove trade barriers will inc efficiency, spread new tech & ideas
  • free flow capital enhances global economic wealth
  • worlds poorer countries will catch up thru globalization
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What are the cons of globalization? (4)

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  • dev. countries of today didn’t use globalization
  • greater inequalities
  • promotes free market, export oriented economies @ the expense of local economies
  • spreads diseases, crime, harmful flora, famine
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What is the middle position of globalization? (3)

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  • it’s unavoidable, but manageable
  • even anti-globalization use the global reach (Internet)
  • strong & efficient gov, international organizations, & watchdog groups can he manage
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How many people are on earth? Born each year? Where is most of that growth occurring?

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  • ~7+billion
  • 137 million each year
  • 90% pop growth in developing countries (Africa, Latin America, South Asia, & east Asia)
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What affects family planning?

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Education of women & literacy rate

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Define Rate of Natural Increase (RNI).

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Annual growth rate for country/region as a percentage

  • world RNI=1.2%
  • Africa highest
  • Russia & Eastern Europe dec
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Define Crude Birth Rate (CBR).

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Total # of births/ total population

-world CBR=21 per 1000

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Define Crude Death Rate (CDR).

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Total death/total population

-world CDR=9 per 1000

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Define Total Fertility Rate (TFR).

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Average # of children born by average woman

  • world=2.7
  • Africa=5.1
  • Europe=1.4
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Define Life Expectancy.

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Average length of life

  • world=67
  • Africa=52
  • Japan=82
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What’s the biggest cause of death by natural disaster?

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What are the push(negative) & pull factors of migration?

  • family reunification
  • networks of family & friends, labor contractors
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-cultural oppression
-war
-unemployment
-natural disasters
+jobs
+freedom
+flood climate

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People go to the ______. What is urbanized population.

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  • city
  • % of people who live in cities
  • 48% world pop live in cities
  • in developed areas 75% are urbanized
  • developing may be lower than 50%
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Define squatter settlements.

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Illegal development of makeshift housing

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Define overurbanization.
Urban population grows faster than provision of infrastructure .
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Culture is ______(not innate), is _____(not individual) behavior, & includes both abstract ________&_________, and material elements (________&_________).
- learned - shared - language & religion - technology & architecture
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Define cultural imperialism.
Active promos of one's cultural system over another
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What is hybridization or syncretism?
When forms of culture spread abroad then are melded with local culture traditions.
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What are the characteristics that best defines the culture group?
Language & religion
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What is lingua Franca?
3rd language adopted by ppl from diff cultural groups w/in a country who can't speak each others language. *english in India
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Define universalizing religion.
Attempts to appeal to all ppl regardless of location/culture (Christianity=2bil Islam=1.2 bil Buddhism)
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Ethnic religion don't actively seek _______.
Converts (Judaism, Hinduism)
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Define state vs nation vs nation-state.
- State: political unit, boundaries, recognized by countries, governed by organized structure (US) - Nation: large group of ppl share ONLY CULTURAL elements & view themselves as a SINGLE political community - Nation-state: homogeneous group of ppl w/ its own political dependent territory (Japan & France)
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Define centrifugal forces vs centripetal forces.
- Acting to weaken/divide an existing state (ethnic separatism, disparities in income) - Promote political unity & reinforce the state structure (shared sense of history, need for military security)
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Define colonialism vs decolonialization.
Establishment of rule over a foreign population. | Colony gaining/regaining control of its territory & a separate independent government.
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Define Core-Periphery Model.
US, CA, Western Europe, & Japan make up economic core in N. Hemisphere, areas in south less dev. Periphery
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Define development.
Qualitative & quantitative measures indicating structural changes (better)
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Define growth.
Increase in size of a system (bigger)
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Define Gross National Income (GNI)
Value of all final goods & services in the country plus net income from abroad. (GNI/country's pop)
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__________is the mother continent of plate tectonics.
Africa
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The _____didn't sign the Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse gases.
U.S.
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India and china don't have to reduce greenhouse gases because______________. What counties produce the most?
They're developing countries. | -Russia and china.

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