IAS Class Terms
Those experiences and factors that make us who we are.
What is identity?
Communication technologies, modern transport systems, international business, migration, and international education are key contributors to this term.
What is globalization or cultural diversity?
This term refers to the idea that others created the story of the "east" and its people.
What is Orientalism?
This is an overgeneralized belief about a particular group of people.
What is a stereotype?
Receiving proper medical care, voting, going to school, and opening a bank account can be things that are denied to this group of people.
Who are stateless people?
How we look at and value or discern the things around us.
What is worldview?
These are the five major religions we discussed in class.
What are Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism?
The idea that we categorize people unlike us in negative ways.
What is "othering"?
When stereotypical beliefs combine with prejudicial attitudes like fear and hostility they drive a behavior known as this.
What is discrimination?
Being this could prevent the onset of dementia and other cognitive disorders by as much as five years.
What is bilingual?
A society that emphasizes the group over the individual.
What is a collective society?
This term refers to limited internet access in parts of the world leading to socio-economic inequality.
What is the digital divide?
This is an intergovernmental organization whose main purpose is to maintain international peace and security.
What is the United Nations?
One term grants citizenship based on the birthplace, while the other term grants citizenship based on the nationality or ethnicity of one's parents
What is Jus Soli and Jus Sanguinis
The first country to engage in gastro-diplomacy.
What is Thailand?
The tendency to believe that one's own culture is superior to other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism?
This is the judicial organ of the United Nations.
What is the International Court of Justice?
There are approximately this many living languages left in the world.
What is 7,000?
This process was sped up dramatically in the twenty and twenty-first centuries with the proliferation of air travel, free trade, and the dawn of the Information Age.
What is globalization?
This concept refers to one group favoring their own interests, especially to the detriment or exclusion of others.
What is Nationalism?
This term is defined as
What is culture?
This was a TED talk given alerting us to the perils of not listening to different voices.
What is "A Single Story"?
This term refers to inexpensive clothing produced quickly by mass-market retailers that can lead to unequal wages and more pollution.
What is fast fashion?
This is the ideology that politicians may use when they portray "the people" as a morally good force contrasted with the "elite" who are seen as self-serving and corrupt.
What is populism?
This religion derives from Hinduism.
What is Buddhism?