REVIEW MATERIALS: Conceptual considerations: Discuss paradoxes and four orientations with which John Chasteen characterizes the changing foci of U.S. thinking on Latin America from the early 20th century to the present. •Racial/Cultural and Environmental Determinism: An image by Americans which suggested that Latin Americans are “Hot-Blooded Latins” with too much “non-white” blood, and do not have the self discipline needed in order to make a more democratic, stable society. There were Catholics
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FIVE META-TRENDS THAT ARE CHANGING OUR WORLD* explored by David Pearce Snyder Consulting Futurist INTRODUCTION Last year, I received an e-mail from a long-time Australian client, requesting “five meta-trends that will have the largest impact on global human psychology.” The wording of the brief request gave the impression that they were ordering five off-the-shelf commodities which we could pull from stock and ship in seven days. Moreover, the term “meta-trend,” while increasingly in common
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fairly quick and precise. With so much happening and how quickly it transpires, it changes our perception of thought. We consume so much time trying to find facts about the latest thing….. The latest broadcast….. Which country is on the edge of revolution or an ultimate increase in growth; or which one will have that everlasting influence on the world’s economy. Take China, for instance. The biggest study is about how China is thriving economically and about to turn into the next world power. Researchers
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Reviews Koichi Iwabuchi, Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. 275 pp., including references and index. ISBN 0-8223-2891-7. In this book, Koichi Iwabuchi, a Cultural Studies scholar based in Japan, explores intellectual discourses, marketing strategies and audience consumption of Japanese popular culture in a transnational Asian context. In other words, he examines Japan's encounter with a 'modern' Asia by
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Sarah Urlacher Mars English 110 It's that 10 million women in China are married to gay men, and that 80 to 90 percent of homosexual Chinese men plan to or have married a women due to pressure from the society( ). Homosexuals in China in the late 1960s and late 1990s (during the Cultural Revolution), gays were subjected to public humiliation and long prison terms. Only in the last decade, homosexuality stopped being considered a mental illness in China. If two men were caught being sexually
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ways decolonization occurred during the Cold War era: without violence, with bloody wars, or with a nationalist movement that followed Marxism. The Chinese Civil War during the years 1945 to 1949 exemplified decolonization through the third method. The Civil War was a struggle in which the Nationalist Kuomintang Party (KMT) tried to exterminate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for political and economic freedom. Due to the fact that this war could have potentially led to the eradication of Communism
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Asia for more than two millennia, and have had a notable influence on the western world particularly since the 19th century.The word 道, Tao (or Dao, depending on the romanization scheme), roughly translates as, "path" or "way" (of life), although in Chinese folk religion and philosophy it carries more abstract meanings. Taoist propriety and ethics emphasize the Three Jewels of the Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility, while Taoist thought generally focuses on nature, the relationship between humanity
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Figure 1 China's Digital Market © Bain & Company ((Hoffmann & Lannes, 2013)) Figure 1 China's Digital Market © Bain & Company ((Hoffmann & Lannes, 2013)) Market analysis Approach using Porter’s Five Forces Figure 2: Analysis of Chinese e-commerce
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Introduction Nowadays the economy of the world has been progressively changed. Mobile phones, computers and Internet have brought people closer, and have become an essential part of our life. Many goods, which were once limited to some countries, are now available across the world. Work can be outsourced to any part of the world that has access to the Internet. Because of improvements in traffic infrastructure now it is easy to reach one’s destination in a relatively short period of time. This great
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Compare the political leaders profiled in Susan Lawrence’s article “The New Guard: Five Younger Officials Make Their Way to the Top”. According to Lawrence (1998), the future of China will largely depend on its top leaders. Their priorities, reputations, and ability to get local officials and society at large to support their policies will shape the course of future events. At the vanguard of the group of up-and coming leaders is Hu Jintao, who joined the Communist Party’s most senior body
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