Ap 4 Ch36 A 21St-Century World_Scripted

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A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects
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Social

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-Most industrial societies are gradually coming to terms with a growing old-age segment, and most agrucultural civilizations are still focusing on problems of nurturing and educating the youth.
-Industrialization has involved city growth, and urbanization in many cases races ahead of other economic change.
-Control of land has become steadily less important as the basis for social position.
-Divisions between wealthy managerial classes and laboring groups with little or no property and inferior education form conflicts that cut across several different civilizations.

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A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects
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Culture

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-Increased Westernization in world trends has added to the world's increasing homogeneity.
-Some countries are anxious about the increasing popularity of Western fads for they believe that their countries are loosing their traditions.
-The rise of science, spreading from the West, challenges the importance of artistic expression.
-Japanese intellectuals sometimes lament the materialism of their own culture, feeling as if it has lost its old ways.
-Westerners fell like a rich popular culture has been replaced by commercialized, shallowentertainments designed to sell goods.

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A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects
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Religion

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-Religions around the world have lost members as people become to materialistic and modern, a major concern of many governments.
-In the 1990s ther was rising Hindu nationalism in India due to the majority of the population being Hinudu.

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A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects
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Interactions

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-Increasing interactions have occured as people migrate from country to country bringing with them their culture and traditions.
-Many countries have been greatly influenced by Western popular culture due to increased transportation and communication between nations allowing clutural diffusion.
-The dissemination of English as a world currency language for travel, business, and science adds to the world's growing homogeneity.

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A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects
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Politics

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- Democratic parliamentarianism is now a well-established tradition in much of the West, but extremist movements still challenge those governments in some countries.
-Authoritarian and communist governments started to loose popularity as economic reforms were generally associated with democratic governments.
-Some observers argue that a form of liberal democracy will be the best option for many modern countries due to its felxibility and prestige.

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A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects
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Technology

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-Great technological advances have been made in the world such as cars, computers, and iPods.
-However, despite great technological advances many people in the world lack basic technologies such as electricity and running water.

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A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects
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Economy

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-Nations such as Brazil and China have develpoed strong industrial sectors amid many severe economic problems.
-The stresses of trying to compete economically in the world are very intense, increasing tensions between nations.
-The international drug trade has picked up since the 1920s.

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A 21st-Century World: Trends and Prospects
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Demography

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-Immigration has started to pick up as people from poor nations move to more prosperous ones in hopes of jobs and a better life.
-Population growth will continue to slow due to two reasons:
1. the numbers of children who will grow up to be parents is already decreasing.
2. the causes for slower growth-government policies, world opinion, personal consumer expectations, and changes in children's roles-seem solid.
-By 2050, the world population will stabalize.