Global Politics
Review:
Part 1
Maori: One of the several indigenous peoples whose language is in danger of going extinct. It is a group that is indigenous to New Zealand.
Gendercide: Systematic killing of people of a single gender. It is the problem of 160 million women missing from Asia due to sex-selective abortion.
Youth Bulge: Generation significantly larger than the generation before it. A trend thay existed in the 20th cent. The problem it causes is creating jobs once that generation reaches a working age.
Evo Morales: First indigenous leader in South America. He is the president of Bolivia.
Multiculturalism in the British Context: the government transfers resources to community leaders. Those leaders then allocate those resources amongst themselves. governments put leaders in charge of the distribution of resources, who the re-allocate them to members of their own groups.
CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. Described as an international bill of rights for women, it came into force on 3 September 1981. The problem it poses is that Muslim states claim that CEDAW conflict with Sharia law.
The Five Characteristics of Ethnic Groups: 1. Language/Dialect 2. Social Customs/Traditions 3. Religion 4. Physical Appearance 5. Region
Lost Generation: generation whose delayed entry into the job market will leave them far behind. There is a great fear that the jobless generation will become detached from labor market. It is a generation of unemployed individuals in the West.
Democratization of Destruction: rapid spread of small arms in developing nations because of decreasing cost of advance in technology. Means of perpetrating large scale violence has shrunk, it is cheaper to have large violence.
Customary v. Statutory Land Tenure: customary is a system of land tenure where land is distributed by custom. Land is allocated through
Part 1
Maori: One of the several indigenous peoples whose language is in danger of going extinct. It is a group that is indigenous to New Zealand.
Gendercide: Systematic killing of people of a single gender. It is the problem of 160 million women missing from Asia due to sex-selective abortion.
Youth Bulge: Generation significantly larger than the generation before it. A trend thay existed in the 20th cent. The problem it causes is creating jobs once that generation reaches a working age.
Evo Morales: First indigenous leader in South America. He is the president of Bolivia.
Multiculturalism in the British Context: the government transfers resources to community leaders. Those leaders then allocate those resources amongst themselves. governments put leaders in charge of the distribution of resources, who the re-allocate them to members of their own groups.
CEDAW: Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly. Described as an international bill of rights for women, it came into force on 3 September 1981. The problem it poses is that Muslim states claim that CEDAW conflict with Sharia law.
The Five Characteristics of Ethnic Groups: 1. Language/Dialect 2. Social Customs/Traditions 3. Religion 4. Physical Appearance 5. Region
Lost Generation: generation whose delayed entry into the job market will leave them far behind. There is a great fear that the jobless generation will become detached from labor market. It is a generation of unemployed individuals in the West.
Democratization of Destruction: rapid spread of small arms in developing nations because of decreasing cost of advance in technology. Means of perpetrating large scale violence has shrunk, it is cheaper to have large violence.
Customary v. Statutory Land Tenure: customary is a system of land tenure where land is distributed by custom. Land is allocated through