GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anabaptism, High Culture, North South Mrt Line
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Gs101 lesson 2: globalizaion (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) The prehistoric period (10,000 bce 3500 bce) The premodern period (3500 bce 1500 ce) The early modern period (1500 1750) Hard power ( bullets and bucks ) vs. soft power (culture, especially. You force your will onto another country, culture, civilization, group of people. The desire of a people to get their own nation. Leads to good things (patriotism) and bad things (genocide/ethnic cleansing/crimes against humanity) Looking at the preservation of the country over the safety of the people who live there. Health care to safety within the country. Nation looks out for its self- interest before anyone else"s. Doesn"t seem realistic, but it is reality. For the most part, the nations look after their own best self- interest, they don"t often care about other countries. Sometimes that comes at the expense of other countries because we wanted to benefit other countries, we"re trying to benefit ourselves it was to our advantage.
