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44 Cards in this Set
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Infectious Diseases:
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malaria is africa’s leading killer of children under 5 and accounts for 10% of Africa’s disease burden. Malaria funding has surged but the poor medical systems available are not effective enough.
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The Environment:
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Deforestation in many countries such as Indonesia and Brazil is leading to major carbon dioxide emissions that is killing our ozone and enforcing global warming and climate change that is leading to flooding, water shortage, and famine.
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Sanitation and Clean Water:
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Clean water and sanitation is a basic human right but billions of people lack clean water and adequate sanitation all over the world with is spreading diseases and causing sickness.
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Malnutrition and Hunger:
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Children in countries all over the world, such as south Asia, suffer from malnutrition because not only are they starving but they aren’t getting enough critical nutrients which is leading to stunted growth and developmental disabilities.
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Conflicts and Global Crises:
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The genocide in Darfur has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Hundreds of thousands of people have died while millions have been misplaced from their homes.
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Education:
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Hundreds of millions of adults all over the world are illiterate, but the majority is women. Because many countries, such as countries in the Middle East, do not allow women to get an education, is lowering levels of economic and medical stability.
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Reproductive and Child Health:
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Childbirth is the leading killer of women in the developing world due to lack of education, prenatal clinics and adequate health care. 2/3 of new born and young child deaths are preventable but their isn’t enough available or adequate medical in the developing world.
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Human Rights and Religious Freedom:
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The lack of human rights all over the world is also related to the lack of religious freedom because some people aren’t able to practice the religions they believe in, such as the Chinese oppression of Tibetan Buddhists and Christian sects.
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Natural Disasters:
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Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and earth quakes have killed and devastated many peoples homes and lives. However, residents haven’t been able to rebuild their homes or go to school because their aren’t adequate services that help with rehabilitation of these areas that have been damaged.
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Economic Development:
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Poverty is a huge issue in the developing world because many people cannot afford to eat, get adequate healthcare, own clothes or a place to live. The Grameen bank has helped many people in southern asia by lending money to the poor, but this is not common enough to completely help the poor.
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Sachs BIG FIVE necessities for development:
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all require a sense of community and community organization
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1. Basic Health:
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Medicine such as basic antibiotics, childhood vaccines, and prenatal clinics
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2. Sanitation:
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Public Health such as easy safe water availability and malarial bednets
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3. Improve Agriculture:
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High yield crops and seeds can help chronic hunger
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4. Education:
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the more educated a population is, the more productive they are with increased information and technology to improve their lives. It also is proven to reduce the fertility rate if women are educated.
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5. Infrastructure:
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Power, transport, and communication services to better fuel more effective education such as lighting after sunset, agriculture such as farm inputs, sanitation such as water pumps and health care such as hospitals
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4 D’s-
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crucial principles that might direct world policy for a just world order
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Diplomacy:
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a commitment to conflict resolution and peacemaking world wide by placing war in the position of an absolute last resort and instituting world nations to negotiate towards constructive resolutions of conflicts and disputes.
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Sustainable Development:
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aims to expand economic opportunity and basic needs for fairer distribution of wealth and power. Is a foundation of peace and equitable development.
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Democratization: Democracy is the key to human dignity and human rights by giving every citizen a voice in their government. Especially crucial for former communist countries such as China and the former Soviet Union because development and democracy are mutually reinforcing.
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Democracy is the key to human dignity and human rights by giving every citizen a voice in their government. Especially crucial for former communist countries such as China and the former Soviet Union because development and democracy are mutually reinforcing.
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Demilitarization:
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reducing the role and idea that military power needs to be at the top of international relations and nations governments. Militarization contributes to the escalation and initiation of wars which needs to be controlled for world peace and security.
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Just Social Order-
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3 Dimensions of Human Rights
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Personal Rights:
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protects fundamental characteristics of the person, such as equality, dignity and sexual orientation.
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Social Rights:
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positive obligations of society to protect all of its members, such as education, adequate working conditions, and healthcare
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Instrumental Rights:
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promotes participation in forming the institutions that shape and structure human life, such as the government, the economy, and the law.
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Human Rights:
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rights a person has simply because they are human. Looked at in 3 ways: Basic Human Needs (food, shelter, clothing, etc.), Freedom of Association (free to make our own communities because we all depend on eachother), Relationships in larger groups and institutions (extends to the government and other large groups to provide for needs that are unavailable to the individual without them, such as electricity from electrical companies)
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Human Rights relation to civil rights:
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everyone has to be granted human rights to gain human rights, ex. Civil rights in America segregated blacks from whites because racism was such an issue. Made sure blacks had separate educations which were usually ineffective, and also prevented them from voting, etc.
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Eradicating Smallpox:
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Smallpox is a virus transmitted through the air. It causes a high fever and rash which kills about 1/3 of the people who contract it. Those who survive are left with deep pitted marks on their faces and bodies and also left blind. The idea of eradication came in the 1950s was not very popular at first, but the Soviet union offered to fund 25 million dollars to eradicate it world wide so the WHO finally agreed. The issues the eradication of smallpox had to deal with was that their was a huge lack of support. Political and financial support were in short supply in all aspects because people didn’t believe that smallpox was beatable. Finally in 1964, the US decided to provide more support to WHO which defiantly helped increase the funding to eradicate smallpox. Without campaigning for funds and showing the public that these donations are going to greatly improve society, no one will donate which was a major issue for this.
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HIV/AIDS in Thailand:
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HIV and AIDS has claimed millions of lives in Thailand mainly due to the sex industry. Even though prostitution is illegal in Thailand, there are thousands of brothels and sex tourism brings in $20-25 billion a year. This has mainly been known as a main issue in sub-saharan Africa but this is becoming a larger epidemic in Thailand. There are ways that this can be prevented, such as closing down all the brothels, but the governments make profits off of them too so they wont do so. Instead, a Nation Assembly Committee on AIDS was established and started the 100% condom program to make sure everyone was using condoms which would prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS by spreading condoms to all the brothels. However, this had not helped so much because people are still having unprotected sex and HIV/AIDS is still spreading.
Connection to slavery is that many of these girls and boys who work in the brothels are sex slaves. They are mainly sold by their parents to be domestic workers because of the poverty and then are actually made into indebted sex slaves. Many children even go back into prostitution after they have been released because there is no other way to make a living for the poor in Thailand. This is increasing mortality rates and infected more people drastically. |
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Slavery Statistics-
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30 million slaves worldwide in garmet/clothing industries (1 million in the US alone), manual labor/agricultural work (road builders in India are enslaved by their own governments, charcoal burners in Brazil), and sex trade. Slavery was not ended in the 19th century like many people believe, it has just transformed
New characteristics of the New Slavery: Legal ownership is avoided, very low purchase cost, very high profits, glut of potential slaves, short term relationship, slaves disposable, and ethnic differences are unimportant. |
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How to be a Global Citizen:
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All people should strive for justice and peace. This means working with other people to raise money for ending slavery, food for genocide refugees, or other things to help ensure people are getting the human rights they deserve. This can be done not only by donating money and raising money, but becoming part of campaigns and non-governmental associations that work to help others who lack human rights around the world such as Amnesty International which gives information on human rights issues and asks for donations and volunteers to help write against human rights abuses and finding other ways to campaign to stop it. Becoming a global citizen is realizing that other people are suffering from human rights abuses, and finding ways to help others in need.
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Glocalization theory
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involves sensitivity to differences with and between the world, individuals and local groups have more power to adapt and maneuver which focuses on individual quality over quantity, and focuses on hybridization and heterogeneization.
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Grobalization theory
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involves the minimization of differences with and between areas of the world, large structures and institutions intimidate individuals and local groups giving them little ability to adapt and maneuver, overpowers the local and limits them by focusing on quantity for large profits over quality, and focuses on capitalism, Americanization and McDonaldization.
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something-nothing continuum diagram
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Something- unique, local geographic ties, specific to the times, humanized and enchanted; nothing- generic (interchangeable), lack of local ties, timeless, dehumanized and disenchanted
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Four major subtypes of a something-nothing continuum:
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Something: place (community bank)- nonplace (credit card company), thing (personal bank)- Nonthing (credit card loan), person (personal banker)- nonperson (telemarketer), service (individualized assistance)- nonservice (automated dial-up aid)
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Nothing:
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a social form that is generally centrally conceived, controlled, and comparatively devoid of distinctive substantive content
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Something:
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a social form that has control, conception and distinctive content
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Grobalization:
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combination of global and growth, focuses on the growth of globalization and spread of nothing
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Glocalization:
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focuses on the local by by spreading more something
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Sports as grobal and glocal:
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there is a tension of the local (red sox and boston) and the grobal where sports are marketed and money is made for sports players because boston cannot soley provide for their large salaries and all the profits. The media comes in too reinforce it by programming the red sox on tv and advertising games, etc., hence glocal and grobal exist together
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Why nothing is not always bad-
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credit card is very convenient, cannot book hotel room without it, run out of gas without cash you can use your credit card if you have it on handy, go on vacation it is harder to carry a large amount of cash, etc.
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Loss amidst monumental abundance:
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He explains this replacement of nothing by also explaining developed countries loss amidst monumental abundance. He uses the example of a superstore, such as Walmart. Walmart is completely filled with a bunch of stuff for sale, which is a bunch of nothing. Walking into a Walmart which is filled with nothing is comparable to people in America or other developed countries because like Walmart, these countries are now filled with a bunch of nothing. This monumental abundance we find all around us now in America provides us with a sense of loss. If Walmart were emptied and there was nothing else to buy, there would be nothing left for us to consume even though what we are consuming is nothing. Our culture uses consumption as a way to fulfill ourselves, but we are actually just trying to overcome our sense of loss. There is a loss amidst monumental abundance in America and other developed countries because the realities are taken away from our over-consumption of nothing.
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Consumerism of higher education-
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buying textbooks, meal plans, large student to teacher ratios taking away quality, etc
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Consumerism and health care:
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the advertisements of pharmaceuticals all over commercials, and from pharmaceutical representatives
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