Question 1

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In your own words, define globalization.

Your Answer:

Globalization is the spread of products, technologies, information, jobs across borders and national culture. Economically, this phenomenon depicts the global interdependence promoted through free trade.

 

 

Question 2

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List the three interrelated facets of globalization.

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three facets of globalization are the economic, political, and cultural.

- An increasingly dynamic, mobile world facilitated by communication and transportation technologies, accompanied by an intensification of interaction and exchange among people, cultures, and cultural forms across geographic, cultural, and national boundaries
- A rapidly growing global interdependence socially, economically, politically, and environmentally, which leads to shared interests, needs, and resources together with greater tensions, contestations, and conflicts
- A magnification of inequities based on flows of capital, labor, and access to education and technology, as well as the increasing power of multinational corporations and global financial institutions
- A historical legacy of colonization, Western domination, and U.S. hegemony that continues to shape intercultural relations today

 

 

Question 3

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List the four characteristics of the "context of globalization in which intercultural communication occurs."  Look for a bulleted list.

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- An increasingly dynamic, mobile world facilitated by communication and transportation technologies, accompanied by an intensification of interaction and exchange among people, cultures, and cultural forms across geographic, cultural, and national boundaries
- A rapidly growing global interdependence socially, economically, politically, and environmentally, which leads to shared interests, needs, and resources together with greater tensions, contestations, and conflicts
- A magnification of inequities based on flows of capital, labor, and access to education and technology, as well as the increasing power of multinational corporations and global financial institutions
- A historical legacy of colonization, Western domination, and U.S. hegemony that continues to shape intercultural relations today

 

 

Question 4

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Define economic and political globalization.  Identify the intercultural dimensions of each.

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- Economic globalization—characterized by a growth in multinational corporations; an intensification of international trade and international flows of capital; and internationally interconnected webs of production, distribution, and consumption. The intercultural dimension is global business and market, Free Trade and Economic Liberalization and Global Financial Institutions.

- Political globalization refers to the organization of different countries into trade blocs. These organizations help to spread ideologies like democracy, protect human rights, intervene to solve misunderstandings and aid in international agreements. The dimensions is ideology war, democratization and militarism, global governance. 

 

 

Question 5

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The link below is to Laura Bush's "Address to the Nation" in 2001, in which she tried to garner public support for the War in Afghanistan:

"Laura Bush on Taliban Oppression of Women," The Washington Post (Links to an external site.)

Read the text of her address.  Select one of the intercultural dimensions of political globalization and explain where you see an example of it in this text.  Use a direct quote from Bush's address to support your answer.

Your Answer:

_-“Only the terrorists and the Taliban forbid education to women. Only the terrorists and the Taliban threaten to pull out women's fingernails for wearing nail polish.” 

The Taliban had controlled everything about what women should and should not do, women was treated so badly because of the governance of Taliban.