Interactions

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Interactions

• When Globalization Meets Nationalism

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Key Terms

• Globalization The ability to produce anything,
  anywhere, and to market anything, anywhere.
• Enabled by technologies of transportation and
  communication
• Characterized by movement of materials, capital,
  people, and information between core,
  semi-periphery, and periphery states

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Key Terms

• Nation A culture group whose set of values is
  under perceived threat
• Members must readily identify themselves and each
  other as such
• A sense of historicity and the idea of a place
  are always included as objects of value

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Key Terms

• State A legal construct pursuant to treaty,
  characterized by fixed borders and internal
  sovereignty
• To be a state, other recognized states must grant
  one recognition as such.
• Typically granted/allowed the right to
  self-determination

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• Internationalism / Syncretism The embrasure of
  objects of value from other culture groups. This
  may extend to the incorporation of others
  objects of value as ones own.
• Fundamentalism The resistance to incorporating
  objects of value into the local set. It is both
  protectionist and morally motivated.

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Where They Meet

• The Marketplace
• Often welcomed as a display of cultural diversity
• Typically viewed as evidence of wealth

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Where They Meet

• The Workplace
• Typically tolerated, seen as work opportunity for
  employees
• Seen as cheap labor for employers

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Where They Meet

• The Internationals
• Universities
• Conferences
• Tourists
• Explorers
• Conquerors
• Missionaries
• Evangelists
• Media

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Who Resists?

• Teachers
• Labor Leaders
• Clergy
• (Parents?)

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Who Follows the Resistance?

• Typically, males in early to mid-twenties, raised
  in middle or upper middle class settings
• Usually anxious to pursue a cause
• Fundamentalism is a way to become actively
  involved without abandoning ones traditional
  values.