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| | |September 11, 2001) 19 Muslims, most from Saudi Arabia, hijacked American airplanes and flew one into each tower of the World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania as the passengers attempted to retake control of the plane from the terrorists. | | |September 11, 2001) 19 Muslims, most from Saudi Arabia, hijacked American airplanes and flew one into each tower of the World Trade Center, a third into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed in Pennsylvania as the passengers attempted to retake control of the plane from the terrorists. |
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| | + | |Christian population |
| | + | |steady increased from 0% of the world when Jesus was born, to about 33% of the world today. |
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| | + | |globalism |
| | + | |the opposite of “nationalism”; “globalism” views the world as one political unit, as one massive village. |
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| | + | |The Four Tigers |
| | + | |the prosperous Pacific Rim nations of [[South Korea]], [[Taiwan]], [[Singapore]] and [[Hong Kong]] (Hong Kong is now part of communist China but is allowed to remain free until at least the middle of the 21st century) |
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| | + | |free trade |
| | + | |trade (importing goods) without limitation between nations; it can cause losses in American jobs and an increase in illegal drugs shipped in from other nations |
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| | + | |General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) |
| | + | |(1947) western nations promoted free trade by first freezing tariffs (taxes on goods sent between nations), and later began reducing the tariffs |
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| | + | |World Trade Organization (WTO) |
| | + | |(1995) most nations agreed to “free trade” and also established international courts for deciding trade disputes among nations |
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| | + | |North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) |
| | + | |(1994) established free trade between Mexico, the United States, and Canada, and created international courts to resolve trade disputes |
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| | + | |other free trade agreements in the Americas |
| | + | |Latin American Free Trade Agreement (LAFTA ), formed in 1961), and replaced in 1981 by the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI); the South American Common Market (Mercosur) which has Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Venezuela as members; and a recently enacted Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) which the United States joined. |
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| | + | |Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
| | + | |(1967) free trade group founded by Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines to combat communism; ASEAN later signed trade agreements with Japan (1977) and the European Community (1980) |
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| | + | |consumerism |
| | + | |people becoming obsessed with buying more than what is healthy or necessary, with brand names (like Nike) becoming more familiar than important things like the Bible |
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| | + | |McDonaldization |
| | + | |when American advertising (as in the case of McDonalds) has an influence on the world culture, causing distant children (like Chinese) to repeat a McDonald’s slogan they heard on television |
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