Globalisation and Culture  ACOM 465 Fall 2003

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Power Point

 

Class notes

Week 8 TOPIC: World sports and world foods

October 19-October 25

 

Group discussion will be on what sports others in your group enjoy and whether they are world sports and GM foods. Twenty-minutes will be for working on your group’s presentation in four-weeks.

 

Discussion Board

(food & sports) Discuss whether you would eat genetically modified foods (GM Foods) if you knew it was in your favourite product. Respond to someone else.

 

Journal

 

From your group country find articles on each of this week’s topics:

Globalisation and food

Globalisation and sports

 

I do not need the articles but you will need to cite them properly, including last visited URL.

 

Write two short essays (about 200 words each) answering these questions:

 

1.      Sports –

 

    1. How is the number one sport of your country (of course you have to find that part out yourself) been affected by stereotypes of Western cultural sports?  Look at how sports are portrayed in your country currently and how they have changed from their traditional portrayal (for example, for Japan look at kendo, judo, or aikido then at Jackie Chan)
    2. Is (are) the traditional sport of your country an Olympic sport? What does this say for the sport(s) in question and globalisation?

 

 

Readings

 

Please write out your answers in paragraph form as would be expected for any academic handup.

 

 

Where Food Crops Originated and GM foods

Question 1. From the two sources above or any other source, list three foods that you eat tell what country they had their origins in and whether they are likely candidates for GM foods.

 

Question 2. Is Zambia doing the right thing for its people by halting its emergency food aid program? Read http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/gm/gm.jsp?id=ns99992806 and any other article you can find on it.

Whatever your answer – support what you say based on your reading. Please cite sources.

 

Question 3.

Do you think the problem of world hunger can be solved by using GM foods. What could be the arguments for or against this? Is the problem of world hunger related to this at all, or are there other factors involved. Whatever your answer – support what you say based on your reading. Please cite sources.