Chapter 11

“Why They Hate Us”

What has America become in the global economy?

An unrivaled market dominant minority

What did Thomas Friedman suggest about America’s economy in the global theater?

“…The only country that appears to have benefitted unambiguously from the global trend towards open markets.”

What organization is the closet thing to a world democratic government?

United Nations General Assembly

What does French minister of culture Jack Lang criticize American culture for?

“…commercial hegemony menaces agriculture and whose cultural hegemony insidiously ruins culinary customs, the sacred gleams of French identity.”

Name three places that have not benefitted from globalization

Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union

What did Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas do in the late 1930’s?

He nationalized the countries railways, taking control away from the United States and England

50% of what country’s capital was owned by Western investors in the 1930’s?

Argentina

What does KKR stand for?Wall Street firm: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

What company stood as a hated symbol of American Exploitation in India?

Enron

What does columnist Daijhi believe the most important international event since the collapse of Communist Russia to be?

September 11, 2001