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CHINA AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE In 1978, China opened up its doors to opportunities that brought about development of foreign trade which lead to the promotion of its economic growth. Over the past 30 years, it has seized the opportunity of the world’s long term prosperity and economic globalization by attracting foreign investment, introducing advanced technology and rapid development in foreign trade around the world to increase its trade volume globally. “The total volume of China’s…

the first article mentioned, the majority of European nations have a type of universal health care. The United States attempted a smaller, less universal system of this when they established Social Security. Social Security only applies to certain members of the population, though. Overall, the United Nations views health care as a right, but four nations, including the United States, does not recognize it as…

Serbs less willing to compromise on issues such as the return of refugees. Kesic states that the trials foster a sense of victimhood for each nation and make everyone outside of the Balkans afraid of the region. Unlike Serbian American analyst Kesic, the US and other European countries strongly support the trials, but he states that it only reopens old…

The American government, under president Hoover at the time, organized massive deportation campaigns that heavily impacted the well-being of both Mexican nationalists as well as American citizens of Mexican descent, seemingly casting a cloud of fear over the United States during the early 1930s. In the early twentieth century, the immigration of Mexicans to the United States was greater than ever. Due to the industrial growth at the time, Mexicans were invited by the United States government to…

In Two Cultures of Punishment by Joshua Kleinfield (2016), the Kleinfield compares how American and European nations differ in moral visions when inflicting punishment upon the offender. In America, crimes that are committed are viewed as morally wrong, not just to the victim, but to the entire society . In contrast, the legal system in Europe believes that the crime itself is separate from the offender in which that all human beings are essentially good. Furthermore, Kleinfield suggests that…

York and the East Coast. Were they farmers? No records exist. However, the existing American Jewish population, (German Jews), embarrassed by the relatively unschooled and differently mannered Eastern European Jew, formed committees to disperse this new immigrant population. They performed their Jewish duty but attempted to keep them away from urban areas, to little avail. Accordingly, Isaac Meyer Wise’s American Israelite proclaimed this idea of dispersion. 1870, the Board of Delegates,…

and if not accepted, they may become an easy target for extremist groups. Everyday, people from war-torn nations apply for asylum in hope for a better life. This hope for the future drives people to make the journey from the middle east to the European Union, however;…

making it harder for people to immigrate. The Asiatic barred zone act was the first of may acts set forth by the US government to limit immigration into the country. This act banned anyone from most Asian countries excluding Russia, Japan and the American owned islands in the Philippines. 1917 was also the first time those entering the country were required to pass a literacy test before being granted access into the country. The next major law came in 1921 with the emergency quota act. The…

the immigrants continued flooding the country, many Americans began to support restricted immigration; they became known as “nativists.” American citizens had always expected new immigrants to assimilate into the country and its culture so the appearance of multi-ethnic neighborhoods and the persistence of old world customs was very unsettling. As a result nativists worked to spread their beliefs and encouraged restricted immigration. American nativist groups opposed free, unrestricted…

The United Nations, since its implementation in 1945, has done much to try regulate international relations, and increase living standards globally. However, there is severe, ideological and structural limitations to the UN’s ability to regulate states and enforce its regulations, rendering it largely ineffective. Initially, the UN was created to be a mediator between states in order to conduct international relations in a relatively peaceful way, and establish a system which can deploy…