A World Without Borders Chapter 40
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A World Without BordersChapter 40
Before We Get Started:This is it! You have reached the end of the
text!The AP focus for this chapter is global
business, migrations, and culture.These are big issues in the world today and
they are included in the AP Exam.
A Global EconomySince the collapse of the communism in 1990,
a new economic order has been organizing around expansion of trade, global investing, privatization of state economies and deregulation of businesses.
Modern technology in the form of computers, the internet, satellites, fiber optics and semiconductors have eliminated national borders and made global business possible.
The Global EconomicEconomic Globalization
Free Trade Means that trade occurs without any constraints on it by
border or state-imposed limits. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, and the World
Trade Organization made free trade possibleGlobal Corporations
Global Corporations replaced multinational corporations where business sites operated under the laws of each country.
Means that a corporation has a small headquarters staff making decision with multiple sites around producing its products
The Global EconomyEconomic Growth in Asia
Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan all experienced economic growth following WWII as their lack of natural resources was supplemented by their abundant labor forces.
China eventually joined as well.
The Global EconomyTrading Blocs
Groups of nations have joined together to gain more advantages in the marketplaceThe European Union, North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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European Union Membership
Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Global CommunicationsWhile the fall of the Berlin Wall represents a
specific example of the disappearance of borders, the process started happening long before that with the erasure of cultural borders brought on by television and consumer products like Coca-Cola.
The local traditions of the early twentieth century have been augmented and sometimes replaced by global culture.
Global Barbie (Example)Versions of Barbie appear in different versions all
around the world.
Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Global CommunicationsConsumption and Cultural Interaction
As industrialization mass-produced products in the nineteenth century, consumption increased.
In the latter part of the twentieth century, consumption became cross cultural and went beyond necessities as products became an expression of personality and inclusion in the world cultural scene.
Example People all around the world eat at McDonalds Coca-Cola is an international product
Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Global CommunicationsThe Age of Access
From the nineteenth century’s communications inventions of the telegraph and telephone, the twentieth century had an explosion of communications technology Radio Television Fax Machines Networked Computers Satellite Dishes All changed the way in which the world communicated, but
the cost of the new communication meant that the impoverished regions of the world fell even further behind.
Global ProblemsNations are struggling by themselves or in
partnerships with not-so-new issues such as coerced labor, poverty, epidemic diseases, terrorism, and human rights.
Population Pressures and Environmental DegradationEnormous population increases since the nineteenth
century due to improvements in sanitation, food crops, and disease control are now a large global problem. Puts tremendous pressure on the world’s resources
Global warming and other environmental issues Population control
Example – China has a one-child policy.
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World Population by Region, 1900-2050 (Projected)
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World Population, 1900-2050 (Projected)
Global ProblemsEconomic inequities and Labor Servitude
Developing areas of the globe have appalling rates of poverty where malnutrition and starvation are common.
Labor servitude similar to slavery is a feature of many poor regions Child labor is particularly abusive in south and
southeast AsiaHuman Trafficking
Modern Slavery in which people are bought and sold across international borders and within national borders as well.
Global ProblemsGlobal Diseases
Since the advent of inoculations and antibiotics, it had appeared that the world was on the road to eradication of the diseases that had plagued human society forever.
AIDS Caused by the HIV First observed in 1981 Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tens of Millions of deaths Orphans and social disorder Lack of medicine
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Adults and children estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS as of December 2003
Global ProblemsGlobal Terrorism
Terrorism has been used throughout world history, but in the modern world of swift and easy travel and communications, it has become an international scourge.
Improved weaponry and mass media give terrorists the ability to make a bigger statement with more effect.
During the last decades of the twentieth century, terrorist groups launched global terror campaigns.
International response has been neither coordinated nor effective
Examples of Terrorism 9/11 – al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden
Lead to conflicts and Afghanistan and Iraq Iraq – Contention that Saddam Hussein harbored terrorists and had
amassed nuclear and chemical weapons.
Global ProblemsCoping with Global Problems: International
OrganizationsNongovernmental organizations – Have been
developed to address significant issues that cross borders. Geneva Conventions – Protects the rights of
wounded and prisoners of war. Red Cross – Aid victims of disaster Greenpeace – Environmental group dedicated to
confronting and stopping whalers United Nations
Crossing BoundariesInternational forces have transformed the world’s populations
with greater equality for women and mass migrations of workers. In essence, the boundaries between men and women have been crossed as have traditional national borders.
Women’s Traditions and Feminist ChallengesAfter WWII, the momentum for women’s equality gained speed as
women got increased access to jobs, suffrage, and equal rights.Occurred much faster in industrialized nations than developing
nations but changes have been instituted in most nations.Still significant challenges
Girl infanticide in China Dowry Deaths in India Honor Slayings in some Islamic Societies
Crossing BoundariesMigration – Humans have always migrated, but
around the time of industrialization, demographers have distinguished between tow types of migration, internal migration and external or international migration.Internal Migration – Migrations within national bordersExternal Migration – Migrations across national
bordersPush factors – Lack of resources, overpopulation, and
prejudicePull factors – Abundant natural resources, job openings,
and freedom from oppression.
Crossing BoundariesCross-Cultural Travelers
International tourism Growing for the past century and a half. Tourism is the largest industry on earth employing
over 225 million people.