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| #22A EXPANSIONISM | #22B IMPERIALISM |
| I believe that an economy is healthy when it's expanding, creating lots of new jobs, and there's good public / private sector co-operation. Investing in infrastructure and better access to information improves productivity and decision making. Investing in human skills leads to new ideas, new technologies--and new markets. The benefits of growth and free trade will overcome poverty. While environmental problems are formidable, government and corporate planners--backed by scientific and technological expertise--are up to the challenge. They can fine tune the economy and deal with these problems, no fundamental changes are needed. | I welcome more developed nations and their multinational corporate representatives extending their power and influence over less developed nations, and believe everyone can benefit. The former benefit from new markets for products, resource extraction, etc, the latter from economic development and exposure to the values and lifestyles of the developed world--which I view as superior to those they supplant. I view favorably the nation-building that sometimes accompanies military interventions, and may even accept territorial expansion of the more developed at the expense of less developed world. Certainly I have no problem as globalization spreads modern culture throughout the world. |
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WV Theme #22A: Expansionism |
WV Theme #22B: Imperialism |
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| values economic indicators for measuring economic growth | can accept national territorial expansionist policies |
| values technology in promoting productivity, economic growth | some cultures superior to others==> ok with Ethnocentrism |
| see benefits in and generally values population growth | see benefits in and generally values Cultural Imperialism |
| sees economic growth as key part of economic development | comfortable with capitalist led globalization, Neocolonialism |
| summary Wikipedia article: Economic Growth | summary Wikipedia article: Imperialism |
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