CMNS 348 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Edward Said, Neoliberalism, Mail Order
24 Jun 2015
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Introducing globalization: be able to offer multiple definitions of globalization, appropriation, appreciation, transferability, transmutability, nativism, reclamation, basata ecolodge, civilizational clash (jihad vs mcworld, prisms and schisms, critique of the clash of civilizations. Identities in pop culture: i. e. keisha / a persona of american culture or a form of it: cultural expression we are living in a generation where we are creating most the content that we are consuming. Globalization is exposing a deep fault line between groups who have the skills and mobility to flourish in global markets and those who don"t (rodrik, 1997, p. 231). The spread of globalization creates opportunities for trade between countries at very different levels of development (p. 232): globalization has made it exceedingly difficult for governments to provide social insurance (p. 233). The increase in mobility of capital has rendered an important segment of the tax base footloose leaving governments with the unappetizing option of increasing tax rates disproportionately on labor income (p. 233).
