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Core

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In world-system theory, the nations specializing in banking, finance, and highly skilled industrial production

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Cosmopolitanism

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Being at ease in more than one cultural setting

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Cultural Hybridization

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Cultural mixing that produces a new cultural form

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Cultural Imperialism

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Idea some cultures have power over the other which leads to destruction of subordinated cultures and their replacement by the culture of those in power

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Dependency Theory

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Theory which argues that the success of “independent” capitalist nations has required the failure of “dependent” colonies or nations whose economies have been distorted to serve the needs of dominant capitalist outsiders

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Diaspora

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Migrant populations with a shared indentity to live in a variety of different locales around the world

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Flexible Citizenship

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The strategies and effects employed by managers, technocrats, and professionals who regularly move across state boundaries and who seek both to circumvent and benefit from different nation-state regimes

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Globalization

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Reshaping of local conditions by powerful global forces on an ever-intensifying scale

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Human Rights

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Set of rights that should be accorded to all human beings everywhere in the world

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Indigenization

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Process of bringing something foreign under the control of local people or adapting it to several local purposes

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Legal Citizenship

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The rights and obligatons of citzenship accorded by the laws of the state

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Long-Distance nationalists

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Members of a diaspora who begin to organize in support of nationalist struggle in their homeland or to agitate for a state of their own

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Modernization Theory

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Argues that the social change occuring in non-Western societied under colonial rule was a neccessary and inevitable prelude to higher levels of social development that had been reached by more
“modern” nations

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Multiculturalism

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Living permanently in settings surrounded by people with cultural backgrounds different from your own and struggling to understand it

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Neoliberalism

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Political perspective that promotes individual freedom, open markets, and free trade while opposing strong state involvement in personal and economic affairs

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Periphery

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In world-system theory, those exploited former colonies that supply the core with cheap food and raw materials

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Post-National Ethos

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Attitude toward the world where people submit to the gonvernmentality of the capitalist market while trying to evade the governmentality of nation-states

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Semi-Periphery

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In world-system theory, states that have played peripheral roles in the past but that now have sufficient industrial capacity and other resources to possibly achieve core status in the future

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Substantive Citizenship

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Actions people take regardless of they citizenship status, to assert their membership in a state and to bring about political changes that will improve their lives

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Transborder Citizenery

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Group made of citizens of a country who continue to live in the home-land and other people regardless of their current citizenship

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Transborder State

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Claimed that those people who left the country and their descendants remain part of their ancestral state,

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Transnational Nation-State

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Nation-States in which the relationships between citizens and their states extend to wherever citizens reside

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World-System Theory

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Argues that from the late 15th century and early 16th century, europ capitalism began to incorporate other regions and people into a world system whose parts were linked economically but not politically