Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Review For Last Quiz

The last quiz will be this Thursday, December 7th (the last day of class). As usual, the list of terms below will serve as a study guide. Know what the terms mean, but also how they connect to terms above and below. If you have any questions, please post them and I'll answer.

Those reading Friedman's "The World is Flat" for extra credit are meeting at Mercury on Tuesday (December 12) at 4PM to discuss it.

If anyone has any other re-writes to discuss with me, you must do it by the end of this week.

Review Guide:

Diversity
Culture
Holism
Internal Change
External Change
Ethnic Groups/Cultural Identification
Ethnocentrism
Cultural Relativity
Social Darwinism
Nanavut/Inuit
Globalism
--Assimilation
--Acculturation
--Syncretism
State Primacy
--Patriotism/Nationalism
--Subjugation
--Paternalism
Cultural Pluralism
--Tolerance
International Criminal Court
--Nuremberg
--Genocide, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity
--History of Court and Modern Issues
--Narrow versus Broad treaty negotiations
--Pros & Cons of ICC; US position
--South Africa "Truth & Reconciliation", Pinochet & Chile
Child Labor
Paths to Globalism/Cultural Imperialism:
--Davos Culture, Faculty Club International, McWorld
Are universal human rights a Western Invention?
Fukuyama: "The End of History"
"Americanization"/Cultural Imperialism Good/Bad
--Rothkopf
--Benefits and costs
"Democratic Peace"
--Three waves of democratization
--Optimists and Pessimists about waves of democracy
--Five paths by which many newly democratic states have fallen back