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| The area of common culture along the border between Mexico and the United States. |
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| The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period. |
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| An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain. |
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| The worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas |
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| Gross national product (GNP) |
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| The value of a nation’s goods and services |
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| Universal moral rights possessed by all people because they are human. |
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| The far-reaching process by which peripheral nations move from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies. |
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| A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in developing nations. |
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| Multinational corporation |
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| A commercial organization that is headquartered in one country but does business throughout the world |
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| Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries. |
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| The monies that immigrants return to their families of origin. Also called migradollars. |
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| A view of the global economic system as one divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited. |
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