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soft power

authority that presses others through attraction and persuasion to change their ideas, beliefs, values, behaviors

structural power

authority that organizes and orchestrates systemic interaction within and among societies

hard power

authority that coerces others and that is backed up by economic and military force

Anthropocene

epoch of geology defined by massive environmental changes brought on by humans since Industrial Revolution

multiculturalism

policy for managing cultural diversity in a country's multi-ethnic society, stressing mutual respect for differences

migration

mobility in geographic space, involving temporary or permanent change in usual place of residence

xenophobia

fear or hatred of strangers or anything foreign

structural violence

harm that is physical and/or psychological from impersonal, exploitative, and unjust social, political, economic systems