Education & globalization.Cynthia McKinney Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Georgia. McKinney served as a Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's fourth congressional district. , former U.S. Representative, delivered a speech to the Georgia Tech Globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation Forum on April 22, 2004, in which she traced her progress from the world of academics to the world of politics and learned that free trade is not fair and globalization affects the lives of the real people for whom she is responsible. These free trade economic policies are responsible for the estimated millions of jobs lost since George Bush became President, and the widening gap between rich and poor is not just global but national as well. To prove her point that "a permanent underclass is being created," McKinney spends the second half of her address reciting findings from a number of current studies (The Black Commentator, April 29, 2004 http://www.blackcommentator.com/88/88_mckinney.html.) In World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred Ethnic hatred, inter-ethnic hatred, racial hatred, or ethnic tension refers to sentiments and acts of prejudice and hostility towards an ethnic group in various degrees. See list of anti-ethnic and anti-national terms for specifical cases. and Global Instability (Doubleday, 2003), Yale Law School Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D., and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and several legal research centers. professor Amy Chua says that bringing free markets and elections to developing countries leads not to stability or prosperity but to hate-mongering, discrimination, and even genocidal violence (The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, January 31, 2004). |
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