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1
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Singapore tried to become a

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“World City”

2
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Inviting global art in ________

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undermines local art

3
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Art is the symbol of a

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of a city lifestyle

4
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“World City” and art in singapore

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joining the global sphere by attracting global arts and culture.

5
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Using art as an economic tool

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erases the true nature of art.

6
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Funding for global artists

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400 million

7
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Funding for local artists

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3 million

8
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Funding to build the esplanade

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437 million USD.

9
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Rules for performers coming to singapore

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not to come out into audience
audience not allowed to stand up
audience not allowed to go on stage

pressure for govt. to change these standards

10
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Singapore successfully brought the world to singpapore, but did not

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bring Singapore to the world.

11
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Bhutan culture and location (question)

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How do you preserve the culture when it is next to the world’s more populated countries? China and India

12
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Population of Bhutan

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807,500

13
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Bhutan consciously tried to keep

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their continuity of traditional life

14
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in bhutan television did not arrive until

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until 1999

15
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In 2006, the reigning mornach..

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abdicated the throne purposefully so that they could become a democratic state.

“it was to safeguard against the risk that a future monarch would be incompetent or worse. “

16
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Dasho Penden Wangchuk, the Secretary of Home and Cultural Affairs

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“Democracy may not be the best form of government, but it is the one accepted by the world.”

17
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Secretary of Home and Cultural Affairs

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Dasho Penden Wangchuk

18
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Globalization killing culture in bhutan

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  • more transportation networks - all students required to learn english
  • modernization
  • globalization
  • democratization
19
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How bhutan addresses external cultural influences

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High value, low impact tourism

Museamizing artefacts (actually sent buddhist priests to perform with the exhibits)

20
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Bhutan only opened tourism to the world in

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1974

21
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Why did Bhutan open tourism to the world?

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in an effort to:

raise revenue

to promote Bhutanese unique culture and traditions to the outside world

in an effort to preserve the culture

22
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“high value, low volume” tourism

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The principle of “high value, low volume” has been the overall tourism policy since 1974, which later changed to “high value, low impact” in 2008.

23
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Global interdependence

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More and more of your life is dependent on decisions made far away from you.

24
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Time-space compression

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the set of processes that cause the relative distances between places (i.e., as measured in terms of travel time or cost) to contract, effectively making such places grow “closer.”

25
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Culture in a globalized world becomes less

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spatial

26
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Globalization impact on culture

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hybridisation
monocultures
possible preservation of existing cultures

27
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Edzo (traditionally a village called Rae)

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A village populated by the Dogrib (First Nations).

28
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Time of the edzo story

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1970

29
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Applied scientist who criticized what happened in Edzo

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Donald Gamble

30
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Applied Scientists and people in power saw:

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  • poor sanitization
  • poor drainage
  • illness and infant mortality
  • poor housing
31
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What happened in Edzo

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Applied scientists, government officials, hired health officials and engineers decided the town needed to be moved.

  • idea to take these people and move them to a better environment

Chief said “most people don’t want it but go ahead”

SCIENCE IGNORED THE HUMAN CONDITION

32
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Problem of new location of edzo

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  • no access to resources, to the landscape needed for hunting and gathering (essential to their lives)
33
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Abu Dhabi and Saudi Ariabia

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Abu Dhabi Bought the louvre for 500

Saudi Arabia: Opened a university where the laws against women are lessened (to draw intl students)

34
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King of Bhutan

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Jigme Singye Wangchuck