Drawing from cultures in your textbook Culture Sketches or from other cultures we have discussed in class through lessons or films, write a 5+ page essay
on the following topic:
A) Compare the impact of globalization in two different regions of the world. In which have indigenous or “tribal” groups been more successful (in terms of
surviving and maintaining their traditional ways of life?
B) Use at least one aspect of their culture (i.e. politics, economics, education, storytelling, governance, subsistence strategies, religion, gender roles, rites of
passage, healthcare, trade relations, relationship to the land and their environments, etc.) to illustrate how the indigenous groups have to held on to their
traditions; then
C) Conclude by discussing what factors of globalization (e.g. local history, neocolonialism, religion hegemony, resource availability, length of conflict or
domination, economics, and characteristics of the outside interests) may have affected the relative successes and failures for each of these groups.