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| Multinational corporations |
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| are not economically tied to or dependent on any single country. They have manufacturing plants in several countries and more their facilities in search of cheaper labor, lower taxes, and favorable government regulation. |
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| is the political and economic domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power through conquest, settlement, and exploitation. |
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| refers to study of the interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized, both during colonialism and after. In a broader sense, postcolonial is used to signify a position against imperialism and Eurocentrism. |
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| is a process that makes capital accumulation the primary objective and leads to the production of great inequalities of wealth and power. |
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| was designed to increase grain yields through the use of miracle seeds as a key to ending world hunger. While production increased, only wealthy farmers, who owned the most land, reaped the benefits of the Green Revolution. Many of the poorest farmers had to sell their land and move to the cities, where they became unskilled laborers. |
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| refers to free enterprise, or the rule of the market. It suggests that an unregulated market is the best way to increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone. |
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| is that the free market promotes an egocentric individualism that dissolves the integrity of society. The market creates and sustains class inequalities, which increases suffering for the great majority of workers while opening the door to consumption excesses for an exclusive few. |
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| is a stratified social order in which subordinate groups internalize the ideology of the dominant group and accept the dominant ideology as natural and inevitable. |
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| is the physical extermination of a defined category of people. |
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| is the destruction of a people's way of life. |
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