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Title: Globalization


1
Globalization
Chapter 14 Latin America Africa The Caribbean
Chapter 15 Asia The Middle East
2
Objectives
  • To understand the phenomenon of globalization,
    especially as it applies to contemporary cultures
    in Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean, the
    Middle East, and Asia
  • Demographic, economic, religious, political
    changes
  • Be able to provide examples of globalization of
    specific cultures for your final

3
Review
  • Definition
  • Globalization is a difficult process
  • Brings disruption of families, culture
  • Increases migration, population density, crime,
    pollution, etc.
  • Third-world countries experience globalization
    differently than first-world
  • Short time period

4
Colonialism
  • Latin America
  • Columbus, conquistadors, Cortés
  • Africa
  • Slave trade
  • Caribbean
  • Middle East
  • Suez Canal
  • Asia
  • Cash crops

Cash Crops of Colonization Top Tobacco in
Cuba Middle Rice in China Bottom Sugar in
Jamaica
5
Changes - Demographic
  • Mesoamerica, South America, Caribbean
  • Population decline (25 to 1.5 million people)
    initially
  • Disease, labor effects, famine
  • Population increase later
  • Medical and sanitation practices
  • Middle East and Asia
  • Population growth, reduction of death rates

6
Changes - Economic
  • Americas, Africa, Caribbean
  • Mining, plantation (hacienda) system
  • Disruption of indigenous system
  • Middle East and Asia
  • Cash crops superceded peasant villages
  • More dependent on core societies

Finsch Diamond Mine, South Africa
7
Changes - Religious
  • Religious syncretism
  • Latin America - Catholic church
  • Caribbean Voodoo
  • Africa Missionization
  • Middle East and Asia
  • Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism

The practice of vodoun on Haiti
8
Changes - Political
Simon Bolívar Nelson Mandela Mahatma
Gandhi Mao Tse Dong
  • Latin America and Caribbean
  • Political autonomy (Bolívar)
  • Africa
  • Independence movements
  • Ghana (1957), Congo (1960), Kenya (1963)
  • Apartheid in South Africa (Mandela, 1994)
  • Middle East and Asia
  • India Gandhi, 1947
  • China Democracy to Communism (Mao, 1949)

9
Changes Social Structure
  • Latin America
  • Dyadic contract, patron-client ties, machismo
  • Africa
  • Non-nuclear family, polygyny, patriarchy
  • Middle East
  • Required marriage, divorce, complex gender
    relations (compare Egypt to Saudi Arabia)
  • Asia
  • Communism in China muted patriarchy and some
    kinship ties
  • Open marriage options, womens right to work

Traditional purdah
10
Video Masters in the Colonies
  • Questions to think about
  • How did the colonists manage to effect control
    over such large regions?
  • What specific ideas, values, or practices aided
    in control?
  • How did the natives revolt against the colonists?
  • Pay attention to the native movements towards
    independence in the 1930s.
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