their businesses and what effects their decisions. United States has many laws in place to be sure that everyone is treated fairly and corruption is not a factor. These laws make sure that there are consequences when they are broken and are in place to be sure that people are not being taken advantage of. When doing business with other countries we need to be sure that practice ethically which is not always the case. One country where these ethics might not be in place is Mexico. There are many
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have had a few challenges with cultural issues. Nike has been criticized for using some factories that are located in China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico. The factories that they were using in Vietnam was documented for violating minimum wage and overtime laws, they have made the changes to correct these mistakes. During the 1990s, Nike faced criticism for the use of child labor in Cambodia and Pakistan in factories it contracted to manufacture soccer balls. Although Nike took action to
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values in Chinese and American. B. DEVELOPMENT Chapter 1: Chinese family values While China has increasingly adopted Western influences, the traditional family structure is still highly valued and holds a prominent position in the Chinese culture. Both traditional and modern Chinese families have similar values and morals to one another, and these have been a part of daily life for many centuries. 1. Gender Roles Traditional Chinese family values feature
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the article China After the Reform Era, Carl Minzner explains how China has progressed politically through the years. From adopting a one-man lead (dictatorship) to presently adopting the communist style of politics. China has come a long way when it comes to changing its policies and the way its runs its country. Carl Minzner, main thesis states that “CCP leaders have eroded the late-twentieth-century bedrock on which China’s success has been built. Rather than serving as the poster child for successful
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enormous global problem. Of the estimated four million people who are trafficked around the world each year, over one million are trafficked into the sex industry. The volume keeps increasing. Researchers believe that the “actual” numbers are much higher than these estimates because many instances of trafficking go undetected (Farr 3). Researchers have concluded that sex trafficking is one of the most, if not the most, rapidly growing form of human trafficking (Farr 5). This industry is expanding
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humanity has lead all to believe that the planets resources are infinite well, I'm here to tell you that research, study, and observation has proven that it is in fact very finite. The population explosion has its roots in developing countries such as China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. The basic fact is people are having more children than their surrounding environment can support. Overpopulation is creating severe problems to the air quality, water supplies, and cropland sustainability;
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legal, cultural, and ethical challenges that confront Nike’s global business are child labor laws, wages, and outsourcings of manufacturing. Nike sweatshop labor case like those described in “Nike: The Sweatshop Debate” has agitated a large sum of controversy over business ethics. The first case illustrates how Nike has inadvertly managed to oversee that those companies they subcontract do not follow international labor laws, including those pertinent to the country the employees are working from. An
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Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet by William H. Dutton Anna Dopatka Michael Hills Ginette Law and Victoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom 19 August 2010 A report prepared for UNESCO’s Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and
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store in Santa Monica, California. They continued over the next few decades to grow to one of the largest athletic footwear and attire stores in the world. However, as we all know, with the growth sometimes comes aches. Nike was expanding so quickly internationally that they began finding themselves in different countries facing numerous allegations ranging from poor work conditions to child-labor law violations. In fact, in 1998, Nike was starting to become “synonymous with slave wages,
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women and the different roles they played. They were to stay at home and took care of their households and such other womanly duties that were deemed appropriate for their gender during those periods. Also, it was very important for a woman to know the laws and requirements of their roles and how those roles were perceived in a society. In many countries, the women had similarities, and a few differences. Although time has progressed and there are some roles that are no longer in existence, the women
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