APC (Asia Pacific Community) has 22 members.

all Pacific nations and

territories (American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of
Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru,
New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea,
Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu,
and Wallis and Futuna) are full members, along with Australia, France, New
Zealand, and the US. In 1997 the members adopted the name Pacific
Community.

History
The year isn't over yet, and history always has the capacity to surprise us, but
1994 looks like being a watershed year - marking the transition, from theory to
reality, of the idea of an Asia Pacific community.

Goals
It aims to accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural
development and to promote regional peace and stability through abiding
respect for justice and the rule of law in the relationship among countries in
the region and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter.

EAC (East Asia Community) includes China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau,
Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

History
After the EAS was established the issue arose of whether any future East Asia
Community would arise from the EAS or ASEAN Plus Three. Malaysia felt that it was
still the case that the role of the community building fell to ASEAN Plus Three shortly
before the second EAS despite "confusion". China apparently agreed whereas Japan
and India felt the EAS should be the focus of the East Asian Community.

Goals
In proposing the formation of an East Asian community, we seek the following
goals: - Preventing conflict and promoting peace among the nations of East
Asia; - Achieving closer economic cooperation in such areas as trade,
investment, finance, and development; - Advancing human security
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In general terms, globalization refers to the ongoing integration of
previously disparate elements of the world's peoples and their ideas and
social systems, a process coterminous with advances in communication and
transportation technologies.

The economic sphere is defined in relation to the flows covered in the

SNA. This means that all flows related to the three types of economic activity
covered in national accounts (production, consumption and accumulation) are
included. All flows of products belongs to the economic sphere
How has media helped globalization?
The mass media are seen today as playing a key role in enhancing
globalization, facilitating culture exchange and multiple flows of information
and image between countries through international news broadcasts,
television programming, new technologies, film and music.

Political globalization refers to the growth of the worldwide political

system, both in size and complexity.

Globalization has created akind of common political culture among people in

the world, and has causedsimilarity in political culture. So, common values
like peace, justice, equality, freedom, democracy, competition and free
election as common humanity values, arepublishing by globalization.

The mass media are today seen as playing a key role in enhancing
globalization, and facilitating cultural exchange and multiple flows of
information and images between countries through international news
broadcasts, television programming, new technologies, film, and music

What are the cultural aspects of globalization?

Cultural globalization involves the spread of language, the arts, food,
business ideas, and technology, and therefore, its impact is felt by almost
everybody in the world.

As the names suggest, media globalization is the worldwide integration of

media through the cross-cultural exchange of ideas, while technological
globalization refers to the cross-cultural development and exchange of
technology.
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 Social media is turning young people into automatons who aren’t taught to
think for themselves but mindlessly follow the group think as determined by the
globalists. This is not good for the future of humanity. When the active pursuit of
truth is frowned upon reason is abandoned and knowledge is canned with the result
that the transcendentals - being, truth, goodness, and beauty - are ignored or
forgotten to the detriment of human happiness and freedom.

In ten years, I’d like to see myself:

—Having found my passion and working towards my goals

—Having a degree in an area of my interest from my dream college, i.e.

—Running my own website and YouTube channel where I review books, movies and
blog about my daily life

—Having a job I enjoy, preferably something related to travel, literature, research or

designing

—Working on my own book, preferably something in the fantasy or contemporary

genre

—Enjoying life in the moment and being happy with my own life instead of focusing
on my insecurities and flaws.

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Followers of the Christian religion base their beliefs on the life, teachings
and death of Jesus Christ. Christians believe in one God that created
heaven, earth and the universe. The belief in one God originated with the
Jewish religion. Christians believe Jesus is the “Messiah” or savior of the
world.

Islam Facts
Followers of Islam are called Muslims. Muslims are monotheistic and
worship one, all-knowing God, who in Arabic is known as Allah. Followers
of Islam aim to live a life of complete submission to Allah. They believe that
nothing can happen without Allah's permission, but humans have free will

The Hindu belief is that gods or divinities can take many forms, but all form
one universal spirit called Brahman. The three most important representations
of Brahman are Brahma, the creator of the universe, Vishnu, the preserver of
the universe and Shiva, the destroyer of the universe

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism are the following: 1) existence is suffering, 2) the
cause of suffering is craving and attachment, 3) suffering stops at some point and
turns into Nirvana, and 4) the path to Nirvana consists of eight steps, which is called
the Eightfold Path.
The devotion includes the veneration of forces of nature and ancestors, exorcism
of demonic forces, and a belief in the rational order of nature, balance in the universe
and reality that can be influenced by human beings and their rulers, as well as spirits
and gods.

According to the American Values Atlas from PPRI, 24% of the US Population is
unaffiliated with a religion in 2017. According to the Cooperative Congressional
Election Study in 2016 31% were "nones" in 2016 and 29.5% were "nones" in 2018.

The rest, an estimated 16% of the global population in 2020, are religiously
unaffiliated, meaning they identify as atheists, agnostics or describe their religion
as “nothing in particular.” In many countries, being religiously unaffiliated is linked
to certain social and political views.

the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal

God or gods.
"ideas about the relationship between science and religion"

Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and

practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics,
or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental,
and spiritual elements; however, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely
constitutes a religion.

The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, is the most extreme
manifestation of a Muslim response to the history of the past few centuries. The
mystery of ISIS attracts both academic scholars and political decision-makers to
debate drastically. This essay attempts to illuminate three issues of ISIS: the nature
of ISIS, the relationship between ISIS and European Muslims, and US strategy
towards ISIS. Firstly, ISIS is much more a terrorist organization than a functioning
terrorist political entity. Secondly, the phenomenon of many European Muslims
joining and fighting for ISIS has numerous reasons: not only because of the failure of
the top-down integration policies of European countries, but also the bottom-up
maladjustment of European Muslims; not only on account of the internal structural
problems on the identity, but also the external stimulating factors, such as “anti-
Islamism” or “Islamophobia”. Thirdly, in the guidance of its “ambiguous” strategy
towards ISIS, US implements “multilateral” policies and “limited” measures against
ISIS. In conclusion, this essay analyzes the impacts of ISIS on the regional and
international order as well as its security.

What are the 4 distinct glocalization developed by Roudometof?

It proposes that four concrete forms of glocalization can be
observed: vernacularization, indigenization, nationalization and
transnationalization
Perhaps the most prominent example of such vernacularization comes from Islam,
whereby Arabic serves as the religion's sacred language—even in cultural contexts
outside the Arab world.
Vernacularization blends religious universalism with specific vernacular languages. This
glocalization
is certainly far more common in pre-modern or pre-literate cultures, in which access
to sacred texts
was limited and religious efficacy could be tied to a specific language. Perhaps the
most prominent
example of such vernacularization comes from Islam, whereby Arabic serves as the
religion’s sacred
language—even in cultural contexts outside the Arab world. Chalcedonian
Christianity’s
vernacularization involved the rise of high-culture languages with their own script
([66], p. 160). Even
before the rise of Christianity, Greek and Latin were high-culture languages in the
eastern and western
parts of the Mediterranean. After the spread of Christianity, their status as high-
culture script
languages further amplified cultural differences that became encoded in religious
categories. The use

Indigenization blends religious universalism with local particularism by adopting

religious ritual,
expression and hierarchies into the specifics of a particular ethnicity. Most often, the
sense of
distinction thus constructed blends religious and ethnic difference. Although pre-
modern kingdoms
and principalities made regular use of this process in order to bolster their rulers’
legitimacy, the ties
constructed often endured far beyond the specific regimes or states. However, it
would be a mistake to
view indigenization as simply the result of local rulers who use religion instrumentally;
in some
instances, such indigenization has persisted for centuries in the absence of political
authority.
Furthermore, in the contemporary sociology of religion, prominent examples of
indigenization come
from Brazil and the Caribbean, places in which African traditional forms of religiosity
have blended
with Christianity. In such forms of religiosity, group membership is far more closed
than invernacularization; if vernacularization has been associated with empires,
indigenization has been
associated with ethnic and cultural reproduction and survival.
The principal difference between nationalization and the previous forms discussed is
that the nation
serves as the foundation for the religious institutions’ claim to legitimacy.
Nationalization operates
through the use of religion as a potential source for nation formation or the
intertwining of religious
and national markers [72]. The Church of England is perhaps emblematic of such a
relationship, but it
is not an isolated example (see [41,73]). Although societies can become more
secular, the semiotic
significance of religion and its importance for public expression remains central to
national life.
Historically sensitive scholarship has acknowledged that, even within Western
Europe,
confessionalization involved the establishment of a formal relationship between
specific confessions
and territorial rulers ([74,75]; [76], p. 639). As a result, people might belong to a
national church
without necessarily being religious adherents—religion’s significance might be
semiotic. Often, that is
the source of considerable difficulty for social researchers, who cannot use indicators
of religious
participation as valid measurements for the importance of religion.
Typically, nationalization operates through the construction and reproduction of a
close relationship
between confessional membership and modern national identities. The analytical
boundary that
separates nationalization from indigenization rests in part on the civic nature of the
nation: A nation
requires active citizens and not mere subjects; it rests on popular legitimacy as
foundation for rule [77].
Although this is less problematic for nations with a prominent civic dimension, the
situation is far
more complex for nations that coalesce around culturally defined or ethnic
membership. In such cases,
The global construction of nation-states and the nationalization of their citizens have
necessarily
created a residual category of “transnationals” (i.e., all those currently residing within
a host state but
who are not viewed as belonging to the host nation). In this sense,
transnationalization represents the
other facet of global nationalization. In the context of migration, transnational people
reconstitute their
ties to both host and home countries, and they engage in a creative process of
blending elements from
both points of reference. It is in this sense that transnationalization is seen as a form
of glocalization.
International migration has offered the scholarly context in which it became possible
to theorize the
relationship between people and religion in a transnational context [87–89]. Although
initially
articulated in the context of international migration, the notion of transnationalism has
been extended
beyond, to the sheer movement of peoples [35]. For example, it is possible to speak
of institutional
transnationalism—such as, for example, the case of the post-1990 Russian Orthodox
Church, which
claims ecclesiastical jurisdiction in territories outside the borders of the Russian
Federation (Estonia,
Moldova and Ukraine) [90–92]. Such instances of trans-border claims are often
connected to
long-distance or transnational nationalism
 Global cities

Global Power City Index

 London.
 New York City.
 Tokyo.
 Paris.
 Singapore.
 Amsterdam.
 Berlin.
 Seoul.

In London there are endless venues for entertainment, approximately 300

theatres, 12000 restaurants, 500 cinema screens and also 240 museums and
galleries. 40% of the city is a green space, making London the greenest
city of its size in the world

While Tokyo (formerly the shogunal capital Edo) has been Japan's most
important city for more than 400 years, it rose to global city status after WWII
due to a remarkable recovery from near complete destruction by Allied
firebombing.

In imagination and in fact, Paris is a quintessential global city. It has been one
of the world's most visited places for centuries, and its economy prospers
today thanks to a well-educated workforce, modern infrastructure, and
global niches in creative industries, business services, and tourism

The reason for this is clear; Singapore continued to attract high-quality

global enterprises based on the provision of high-quality governance, human
capital, communication and technology, transportation, logistical and other
key infrastructure.

Being the capital of Prussia and the capital of the Deutsche Reich under its
chancellor Bismarck since 1871, Berlin began to become a world city as “the
forms of government, the ways of life and the character of the Prussians
were to a large extent imposed upon the rest of Germany” (Hibbert, 1996,
215).

What Is a Global City?

 Home to major stock exchanges and indexes.
 Influential in international political affairs.
 Home to world-renowned cultural institutions.
 Service a major media hub.
 Large mass transit networks.
 Home to a large international airport.
 Having a prominent skyline.
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
In 2020, crude birth rate for Thailand was 9.99 births per thousand population. Over
the last 50 years, crude birth rate of Thailand was declining at a moderating rate to shrink
from 36.68 births per thousand population in 1971 to 9.99 births per thousand population
in 2020.

In 2020, death rate for Thailand was 7.9 per 1,000 people. Death rate of Thailand fell
gradually from 9.7 per 1,000 people in 1971 to 7.9 per 1,000 people in 2020.

The COVID shock hit Thailand in early 2020 and has already had a significant
economic impact, with a sharp growth contraction of 1.8 percent y-o-y and 2.2
percent q-o-q in Q1 2020. ... In the baseline, the economy is projected to
contract by 5.0 percent in 2020, which is among the sharpest projected
declines in the region.

Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century British philosopher and economist

noted for the Malthusian growth model, an exponential formula used to project
population growth. The theory states that food production will not be able
to keep up with growth in the human population, resulting in disease,
famine, war, and calamity.
Over the past week, the approximately 3,000 migrants, mostly women and children,
have trekked over 100 km (60 miles) from the city of Tapachula on the Guatemalan
border, struggling through sweltering heat and evening rains.
Kabir Sanchez, a volunteer doctor helping to look after injured caravan members,
said he and his colleagues treated dozens of people on Saturday with foot injuries,
respiratory problems, infections and pregnant women at risk of miscarrying.

“More than 50% of the people in the caravan are sick,” he told Reuters by telephone.

He said other caravan members had possible cases of coronavirus, but that the
government had not provided COVID-19 tests.

The government’s National Migration Institute (INM) did not immediately reply to a
request for comment on COVID-19 testing.

The INM did say in a statement that six people in the caravan, including five children,
had contracted dengue.

On Sunday night, the caravan members slept outside in the rain having paused their
trek during the day due to the health concerns.

Most of the migrants are fleeing poverty, violence and the impact of adverse
environmental conditions linked to climate change in their homelands. Many hope to
make it to the U.S. border.

Leaders of the caravan last week rejected the Mexican government’s offer of visas
that are meant to grant migrants access to healthcare and regular work, arguing it
had failed to keep promises to help them in the past.
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Why does inequality matter?

Inequality can be objectionable because it interferes with the fairness of political
institutions. Finally, inequality in wealth and income can be objectionable because it is
unfair: the institutional mechanisms that produce it cannot be justified in the relevant way.

Where do you see this in real world?

Yes. The major examples of social inequality include income gap, gender inequality,
health care, and social class. In health care, some individuals receive better and more
professional care compared to others.

Is this acceptable or unacceptable?

For me is unacceptable, but as I made some research, employees follow only the
protocol in the said establishment and because of that we don’t have any option. Example,
our Hospital here in Laak.

Can we change it?

Only in authority can change the said protocol.

My POEM
Inequality

The way that they are treated

really doesn’t make sense
Because they are minority
it is totally unfair
They people that don’t like them
it means they must not care
It doesn’t matter race or what
they choose to follow
It is not your business
because what does it matter you.
1. What is sustainable development? How did the concept evolve?
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet
their own needs. In addition to natural resources, we
also need social and economic resources.
2. Why is sustainability development relevant in today’s
context?
Sustainability improves the quality of our lives, protects
our ecosystem and preserves natural resources for
future generations. Going green and sustainable is not
only beneficial for the company; it also maximizes the
benefits from an environmental focus in the long-term
3. How do poverty, inequality, and environment destruction
become challenges to sustainable development?
SDG 1 aims to eradicate every form of extreme
poverty including the lack of food, clean drinking water,
and sanitation. ... Achieving this goal includes finding
solutions to new threats caused by climate change and
conflict
4. How is globalization linked to sustainable
development?
Due to the nature of globalization itself, everyone in the world
is affected by it, even those who do not wish to be. As
globalization changes the ways of life for people in every
nation, care must be taken that the changes go in a
sustainable direction. Every feature of society is affected by
globalization.

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Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard.

The Story of Stuff exposes the

connections between a huge number of
environmental and social issues, and calls us
together to create a more sustainable and just
world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you
laugh, and it just may change the way you look
at all the stuff in your life forever.
The film is divided into five
segments: extraction, production,
distribution, consumption and disposal.
The Story of Stuff takes a look at the
economy's linear system that runs from
extraction to production to distribution to
consumption to disposal. ... The solution is
to figure out how to structure the economy so
that people can meet their needs without
trashing the planet.

Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard.

Monolog

Where do products come from?

Where do they go when people throw them
away?
Why people get an obsession with products, it
doesn't matter if they really need them?

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