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 * Triggers for Change**
 * Both World Wars and a global economic depression bring down European Global Dominance.
 * Western military supremacy is shaken the European imperial system collapses, leading to decolonization.
 * Cold War rivalry building superpower framework, but this would not be a durable position.
 * New Communication and transportation methods allow for the capacity to move goods, people, and idea even quicker.
 * Technological Innovations improve quality of life and lead to global population growth
 * Demographic explosion leads to exhaust of resources
 * The Big Changes**
 * Political change came to be a dominant process.
 * Nations work to systematically improved their position in the world economy.
 * Cultural change as nationalistic ideals challenged and Marxism takes on a battle against western consumerism.
 * The position of women is significantly higher than it was before, but men continue to take the most profitable jobs.
 * Increased globalization following WWII and the Vietnam War
 * Human impact on environment cause by increased global change.
 * Continuity**:
 * Resistance to changes such as gender relationsFundamentalism was developed to resist the secularism
 * "Globalization was synergistic; changes were combined with traditions and multilateral entities adapted to the customs of their areas"
 * Many societies built of patterns they established in their history
 * American desire to maintain its sovereignty absolutely uninhibited
 * Older traditions of civilizations shape their current actions
 * Economic inequalities worsened
 * Impact on Daily Life: Emotion and Behavior**
 * Globalization had impacts as well
 * Advertising emotions like romantic love reflected an increase of foreign items that expressed love within the Chinese economy
 * Anthropologists say that people to certain areas are predisposed to have certain emotional responses
 * Many societies attempted to reduce emotional passivity; Mao Zedong urged peasants to lash out
 * Emotional connection to children increased as birth rates drastically decreased

Chapter 28 The West The Cold War Russia China Latin America
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