Intro Unit Review

Cultural Relativism

Cultural Relativism

Not judging other cultures based on your own standards; understanding others cultures within their cultures context.

Guineans

________ are still living in a hunter and gatherer lifestyle.

NGO

Non Governmental Organizations; Civil society organizations that operate outside of the government.

low interest loans

Provides ________ to developing countries for education, agriculture and business projects.

Microcredit

small loans poor people, especially for women.

UCLA

Jared Diamond, an ornithologist from ________, visited Papua New Guinea.

Cargo

Material goods first brought Papua New Guinea by Westerners.

Globalization

Process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations.

NGOs

________ are not immune to fundraising and other financial scandals.

Culture

Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation; everything that is learned

Ethnocentrism

Judging other cultures based on your own standards; believing that your culture is superior

Cereal Grasses

Barley and wheat

Fertile Crescent

Crescent shaped region in the Middle East, home to a variety of cultures, rich agriculture, and trade over thousands of years

IGO

Inter-Government Organizations

General Assembly

Main body

Security Council

Elite subgroup

Secretariat

International Leadership

Secretary General

Antonia Guterres

Economic & Social Council

Functional agencies

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Inter-Governmental Military Alliance

Freedom of Goods

No barriers to moving goods

Freedom of Capital

You can move money around freely

Freedom of Services

Lawyers, builders, hairdressers, any workers can move and find work freely

Freedom of European Citizens

Travel within Europe without passports

NGO

Non Governmental Organizations; Civil society organizations that operate outside of the government