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Comments for a subject to change » Comment on why so angry? by sheller

Posted 25 hours ago

I feel that the reason that the reason for the Middle-East’s (primarily) hate for us, is due to religion. This comes in two parts however. It is easy to see why religion in the traditional sense is a tension point between these two different areas of the world. Christianity (Americas primary religion), and Islam have not mixed well since the crusades. While there is nothing wrong with either religion, and neither should be compared to the other, there are always radicals who I feel take religion a bit to far. I have no problem with people being passionate about their religions, ...

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Comments for Pensive Persian » Comment on Barber’s use of “Jihad” versus the actual meaning of Jihad by sheller

Posted 2 days ago

When I read the “Jihad vs. Macworld” article I found this use of the word to be questionable as well. I did not know the specifics of Jihad, (inner and outer) and it really is quite interesting. While I do think that his use of Jihad was appropriate in the context of the article, it is unfortunate that people read it and perceive of the word being exclusive to the Muslim faith, and associating Jihad as being always violent. I feel that the problem with using the word Jihad in the article, is that the majority of the population does not ...

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Comments for horsejumper12341 » Comment on “A Smarter Planet” by megan abbott

Posted 4 days ago

I’m really glad you posted this article. Not only were the facts utterly intriguing, but it is quite a task to try to sum up exactly what globalization is and how it effects the world into words, and I think the author of this article did an amazingly accurate job. Even though this article is pretty long, I couldn’t keep my eyes off the screen, it is very thought-provoking and it also raises awareness. I really appreciated the positive attitude the author portrays in his stance on globalization and how he describes it as the world getting smarter together, because that ...

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Comments for Don't Let the Fear of Striking Out Keep You from Playing the Game » Comment on Phillip Morris(now called Altria) and Quimonda by sheller

Posted 15 days ago

I think that these layoffs probably have to do with the critical state of our economy. With the economy is a recession like we are now, the companies are probably scrambling to downsize so they they don’t have economic concerns of their own. Now is a pretty bad time to be an American, hopefully this will turn around soon and not continue to a depression.

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on Pleeeease read this article. by Kelly

Posted 20 days ago

I think this is a pretty interesting article. It’s obviously biased, but it raises good points. I’ve wondered whether globalization is going to lead to one world market, but I had never thought about who would be in control, and what all that power would mean.

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Comments for Pensive Persian » Comment on Did you know that U.S. Farm subsidies are hurting the African Cotton Industry? by Neo-Rev

Posted 3 weeks ago

I actually looked into this back when I took the Globalization seminar. At the time the Doha Round, a committee of people from the World Trade Organization, were working on lowering trade barriers to increase global trading and one of the issues brought up was African farmers unable to compete. The Doha Round has gone through several negotiations and specifically the meeting at Potsdam deals with subsidies, possibly something to look into.

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Comments for Don't Let the Fear of Striking Out Keep You from Playing the Game » Comment on mcdonald’s en espanol by Zinovy

Posted 4 weeks ago

There is no magic skill.

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Comments for Don't Let the Fear of Striking Out Keep You from Playing the Game » Comment on Real Life Examples of Globalization by Nona

Posted 4 weeks ago

You write very well.

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Comments for Don't Let the Fear of Striking Out Keep You from Playing the Game » Comment on Real Life Examples of Globalization by seo blog

Posted 4 weeks ago

This is a really interesting blog post,I have added your blog to my favourites I really like it,keep up the good work!

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on What is this world coming to? by nmoskal

Posted 4 weeks ago

I really like the comparison you made between the two definitions. Though we have spent a lot of time talking about both, it was really helpful to see the definitions side by side like that.
I also hadn’t considered some of the questions you listed either. Especially since they affect each other, does the acceleration of one automatically accelerate the other? And also, is there a limit? Hopefully we’ll be able to cover some of these questions in class.

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Comments for a subject to change » Comment on God, I feel dumb by nmoskal

Posted 4 weeks ago

Wow, you’re not the only one who’s feeling a little stupid. I have been hearing more and more also about starting to teach kids at a much younger age new languages. People have found that at a very young age kids are able to pick up new languages much faster than when just starting in middle school. I wish that had happened with me! Yes I could count to ten in Spanish when I was little, but that was it. And that’s still it.
Along with Jakey, the same thing is happening with my French teacher’s son. After his child was ...

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Comments for Pensive Persian » Comment on Did you know that U.S. Farm subsidies are hurting the African Cotton Industry? by nmoskal

Posted 4 weeks ago

I completely agree with you. Especially with our own country in debt, rather than just giving them money to help them, why doesn’t the US just back off in the cotton market, and let Africa help themselves? I don’t mean to say we shouldn’t help them, because I think letting them make a profit off cotton would do just that. With all the issues occurring in Africa today, especially environmental ones, why not let them produce something they actually can?
I’ve learned a little bit about certain environmental issues lately through my Environmental Science class, and the land conditions in Africa ...

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Comments for Invisible magnetism (aka globalization) » Comment on Chad & others by Emily

Posted 4 weeks ago

I totally agree with you. I dont think that the world is going to be able to become completely flat because of those countries that are so far behind. It has taken the U.S. a long time to be where it is today so how are these underdeveloped countries going to be able to keep up with the developed countries. They do not have the technology, education or whatever other factors it takes to get close to being equal with the U.S. It isnt that I dont believe in these underdeveloped countries, I just think it would take them a really ...

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Comments for Globalization on Steroids » Comment on The Race is On by Emily

Posted 5 weeks ago

That was a very interesting point. I never thought about it that way. I am not really up to date on the whole political situation so you really opened my eyes to all of that.

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Comments for Globalization on Steroids » Comment on The Race is On by Stacey Derbinshire

Posted 5 weeks ago

I discovered your homepage by coincidence.
Very interesting posts and well written.
I will put your site on my blogroll.


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Comments for Invisible magnetism (aka globalization) » Comment on Chad & others by Prof.G

Posted 5 weeks ago

Yes. So maybe this has relevance for a revised version of your first essay?

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on capitalism pyramid. by Prof.G

Posted 6 weeks ago

Very interesting! What’s the source?

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Comments for a subject to change » Comment on Old Meets the New: why, hello there old! and how are you new? by Susan

Posted 6 weeks ago

This is actually a very interesting picture. It reminds me of when I was in Egypt and there were glass Coca-Cola bottles lying all around the pyramids. It was kind of surreal seeing something so ancient mixed in with familiar elements of the present. Towards the end of your caption you mentioned how some people would view an image like this as a “desecration” of the past. I can completely agree with them on that because aesthetically the dishes are kind of a buzzkill. Functionally, however, imagine what signals those dishes could be sending…possibly images of the great architecture to other ...

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Comments for Globalization » Comment on What is this world coming to? by Prof.G

Posted 6 weeks ago

Great post, Megan. Very thoughtful and thought-provoking. I have some tentative answers to some of your questions, but I think I’ll keep to to myself for now.

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Comments for Globalization on Steroids » Comment on Chinese Pizza by pgurung

Posted 7 weeks ago

Interesting thing about food chains that travel overseas, I ate a Pizza Hut in Nepal once, and the food was definitely NOT as good. So this kind of goes to show that the thing about the chain expanding so to speak, is just for the name brand. The quality of the food is obviously not as good, but the main thing that matters is that people know that they are eatin PIZZA HUT and not just regular local pizza.

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