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Article: Student Perceptions of the Developing World: Minimizing Stereotypes of the "Other".
- Article from:
- The Social Studies
- Article date:
- November 1, 1999
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Today's growing integration of economic, social, and political relations among countries around the world poses a challenge to students. It affects their future role as citizens who will have to respond to global problems. High school students often do not possess a realistic understanding of the cultures of the developing world and can profit from studying them. In such a program, students consider challenges such as deforestation and other forms of environmental disruption, human rights issues, child labor, corporate outsourcing, ethnic strife, economic and global development. Huntington (1993) has contended that future global conflict will have its origin in cultural ...