Concepts and Terms
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Concepts and Terms
How Should I respond to globalization?
"To know, and not to act, is not to know."
Wang Yangming
In this unit, you will learn more about the following big ideas:
- Our ideas about what makes up a good "quality of life" vary depending on culture, values, and worldview.
- Global citizenship means that, as citizens of this planet, we are all connected to each other.
- As citizens, we all have responsibilities to each other.
- As citizens, we all have rights.
- Globalization, human rights, and democracy are inter-related.
- There are many perspectives on what global citizenship means.
- We have the power to make the world a better place for ourselves and for each other.
The following are important words in this unit. Select the word to read the definition, or look in the online glossary.
activism
anti-globalization movement
boycott
citizenship
consumer activism
corporate responsibility
discrimination
dissent
anti-globalization movement
boycott
citizenship
consumer activism
corporate responsibility
discrimination
dissent
ethnicity
entrepreneurship
gender issues
Geneva Conventions
global citizenship
human rights
International Court of Justice
International Criminal Court
entrepreneurship
gender issues
Geneva Conventions
global citizenship
human rights
International Court of Justice
International Criminal Court
labour laws
lobbying and lobbyists
prisoner of war
refugee
responsibility
rights
status quo
triple bottom line
lobbying and lobbyists
prisoner of war
refugee
responsibility
rights
status quo
triple bottom line