In these imaginings, "Asia-Pacific" becomes an object which would rescue the West from its current economic woes, on the one hand; and affirm (East) Asian states" emerging political and cultural confidence in the world, on the other... Through the recognition of Asian values as sacred, Lee Kuan Yew has chosen a path of economic development that follows the Asian model rather than that of a global one. Thus the option of an Asia-Pacific regional outlook is unique to the East as it is one of communitarian gain a model followed closely by the most economically successful nations in Asia. ... ...

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While this monumental achievement can be attributed to the ingenuity of American scientists and astronauts, the real factor behind the Space Race was the competition between the Soviet Union and the United States. For America, this not only opened up a new world in the form of space exploration, but also boosted math and science education in schools. ... In fact, although the United States has a large, "achievement gap," between students, even our top students are lagging behind those in Asia and Europe. ... Singapore, one of the most competitive countries in the world, "ranks ...

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The 13th Annual Asian Pacific Islander Issues Conference The 13th Annual Asian Pacific Islander Issues Conference consisted of a great many events that dealt with many serious problems that dwell deep within the United States and continue to keep Asians, as well as Asian Americans, down and suppressed from breaking the typical stereotypes. ... The main focus of this conference was to help the Asian community become more aware of the current state of which Asians really do live in. ... The conference also held the Campaign Against Southeast Asians Deportation. ...

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However, the politics in Asia during the same period were more dynamic and nuanced than just the simple East-West divide of Europe. ... Rather than two competing systems, Asia's international order was a clutter of triangles." ... Its immobility may have been the single most stabilizing element in post war Asian politics." The Soviet-Japanese-American triangle drove Soviet policy towards Japan, since the Soviets viewed Japan as a creature of American engagement in Asia. ... With the disappearance of the Soviet threat is it still a useful model for the study of international relations in A...

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Other countries however, such as parts of Egypt, Eastern Africa, and Asia share these same beliefs and fears for women whose genitalia are not modified. Male circumcision is almost unheard of in Europe, South America, and non-Muslim Asia. ... In countries such as Asia, Africa and the Arab world, where male circumcision is optional or unheard of because of the known complications, female genital modification is forced despite the same or even greater complications faced. ...

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Early Farmers in Central America As the glaciers sheltered at the end of the last Ice Age, (when Asia and North America were connected by a piece of land) the hills and mountains of Mesoamerica, or Middle America changed dramatically. From about 7000 BC farmers from these regions began to plant crops and this period was also known as the Archaic or Early Farming period, the interesting thing about this is that these development in the Agriculture coincided with the development of the agriculture in the Old World (Europe, Africa, Asia). ...

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For almost three decades, the East Asian and Southeast Asian region have stood out against the rest of the world as a model of development. Making up the East Asian and Southeast Asian Region, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, and Singapore have undergone an remarkable increase in GDP, converting from a poor and technology backwards economy to a group of prosperous nations. ... (Graph 7.4, P.279) Additionally, Japan created a lucrative automobile industry, along with a steel industry that rivaled and surpassed the American industry and electronics. ... Their annual percentages were even greater than Ame...

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There were many similarities and differences with the experiences of changes that occurred with African Americans, Women, and Asian Americans. This can be proven through the differences of the social changes experienced by African Americans, Women, and Asian Americans. ... With the enfranchisement of women, there was also the disenfranchisement of Asian Americans. Asian Americans went through crippling acts of inequality that put America's wartime ethics into question. The Japanese bombing of pearl harbor that pushed America into WW II brought a large persecution of Asian Americans alon...

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." ... However, the Korean conflict was particularly central to American policy and indeed world security as it outlined the American policy of containment from NSC 68, and demonstrated that America, to quote President Truman that America was committed to, "the cause for a just and peaceful world order through the United Nations.... Although it was not specifically created to refer illicitly...

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Buddhist ideas became more known when Americans returned from Asia after the Second World War and the Korean War and brought back an interest in Asian culture. In the 1960s, the American interest in Buddhism grew even more among artistic groups, and new departments of Buddhist studies were established in universities. Today, approximately 3 million Americans identify as Buddhists. ... It also draws in those that seek a non-traditional religion that is different from popular American religions that they grew up in, such as Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. ... Buddhism's emphasis ...

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Starting about 12,000 years ago, the process of domestication began in several differentplaces independently: West Asia, East Asia, Central America and South America (see map) areconsidered centers of domestication. ...

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What have been the effects of the "War on Terror" on Australia's relations with South-East Asia? The "War on Terror" has generally improved Australia's relations with South-East Asia. ... Indonesia's efforts in the war on terror has produced many results - with members of JI responsible for the Bali Bombings being sentenced to death and there has been increased cooperation with external parties - including Australian, American, British and Japanese input. ... This cell had Al Qaeda's financial support that had plans to bomb American interests in Singapore. ... There are ...

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But this question is prior to that posed by this Asia Pacific Roundtable; that is, what are the benefits and costs stemming from globalisation? ... They find most resonance in developing countries, and especially those states of Southeast Asia for whom recent economic crises have brought back shades of the north-south contest between the developed and developing world that dominated the international agenda in the 1970s but largely disappeared throughout the 1980s and 1990s. ...

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According to several lexicographers, diversity is: the fact or quality of being diverse; difference (Webster's; American Heritage). ... For instance, people of Asian ancestry differ significantly from those of European ancestry. Asia has a rich history of a union with nature and reliance on consistency in life and family; Europeans sought for industrialization and growth of society and class. In religion Asians had many different worships, however, all emphasize honor, respect, and discipline; in contrast, the Europeans venerated the holy trinity, the divine power from which life began an...

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The Spanish discovery of silver in Zacateces and San Luis Potosi allowed Spain to have a lot of trading power with East Asia in the way of silk and back home in Spain helped to put money back into the treasury after the 800 year-long recon quest of Iberia form the Moors (The world that trade created, pg. 54). ... They did have colonies in the America's but were forced to bring over large number of slaves in order to capitalize on their resources. ... The English were able to take their lands in Africa, India, and the America's (Caribbean also) and set up a triangle of trade. .....

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This age of discovery and exploration led to the expansion of European powers in the Americas and in parts of Asia. ... After the 1820's many Western European countries had lost many of its colonies, such as France in America and Spain in South America. Of course, Britain had also lost its crucial colonies during the Revolutionary War North America. ... After losing its thirteen colonies in North America, Britain had begun to lose its economic edge. ... As economic and political venues were sought after in primarily Africa and Asia, controversy eventually arose. ...

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In "American Values and Assumptions", Gary Althen clarifies the American cultural values that intersect and how they work together. These values are perceived by Americans and sometimes are different with other cultures in the world. ... In the article, Althen gives an example of how American parents teach their children to be self-reliant. ... While more American generations have been trained to be independent, more young people from Asian countries such as Vietnam and China have been more dependent on traditional family values by their parents. ... For example, in Asian countries,...

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However, it may also be possible that such social movements as multi-culturalism are forging a New America. ... There are works by Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and so on. ... African Americans, Irish Americans, Polish Americans, Jews from Eastern Europe, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans gained large audiences and won prestigious literary prizes. ... Amid this extraordinary opportunity, however, American writers faced new and complex challenges with regard to originality, authenticity, and social worth. ... Thus symbolizing ...

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America is the most diverse place on earth, every race color and creed, isn't that our motto? ... Roles are usually supporting, and Asians and Native American performers have recently had a decrease in availabilty. This holds true for all ages groups, Todd Boyd, critical studies professor at the university of Southern California, states "a black face, a Latino face, and American-Asian face are all tied into this country's problemaic history." ... There is a history of African-Americas amusing white audiences, this may be because comdians aren't very threatening. ... Stat...

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Buddhism: The culture and the individual (Option #3) With the rise of the Asian population in the U.S., Buddhism has made a tremendous impact in the United States. Cultural changes in America inclined many to seek alternatives to Western traditions, and some of the disillusioned found their way to Asian religious communities (Tweed, 2). ... This popularity has been brought both through import/export and baggage practices of Asian Buddhists (Frankenburg lecture), as well as the mass media attention focused on Buddhism. The Asian religion of Buddhism has been so fully blended into American cu...

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Cyrus Veesers idea in Great Leaps Forward: Modernization in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is to simply explain how less-developed nations across the planet tried to catch up to "the Wests " rise to power. ... Portfolio Diaz is the most famous modernizer in Latin America's history, he ruled from 1876 to 1911. ... This helped Mexico tremendously, maybe even too much, because to the people of Mexico it became obvious that the American people started having more rights in their own country. ... China had dominated Asia for centuries so it was no shock that china considered themselves the ce...

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India is fixated on South Asia. ... In American eyes, only China looms as a likely future rival. ... The war that raged from 1945 to 1975 in Vietnam was the most prolonged conflict of the 20th century (see Appendix B, Cowie H.R, (1980), Asia and Australia in World Affairs, Australia, page 156. ... Once USA became deeply involved in Vietnam, the American commitment stemmed from a genuine belief that unless communism was halted, as it had been in Korea, the nations of south-east Asia would fall, like dominoes, one by one to communist insurgency. ... In the late 1960's the US got out of the ...

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Under such conditions, it is only natural for historians to find similarities, both qualitative and quantitative, between the two early American Colonies. ... For fear of discrimination, the group negotiating rather harsh terms with the London Company, and sailed off to the Americas on the Mayflower (Murrin, 69). ... With hopes of discovering rich gold and silver mines, a northwest passage to the continent to Asia, a cure for syphilis and other valuable products for sale in Europe they sailed into the Atlantic (Murrin, 59). ... In fact we are more then Asian, European, American, Africa...

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The English were not the earliest colonizers of the Americas nor did the English possess an exceptionally large piece of North American territory. ... It was clear to many Americans that their rise in power was a divine appointment to spread the American miracle abroad. ... When the US begins venturing into Asia, it takes another step to becoming more like European powers. ... Charles Denby Jr. described Asia as "the last prize to conquer for commerce in the west.12" Even while anti-colonialists like William Jennings Bryan fought for American imperialism - citing many of the same p...

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During World War II, African Americans were welcomed to serve as soldiers but segregation was apparent. ... When the war ended and African American, Native American, and Hispanic soldiers came back to a home that did not grant them full rights, the Civil Rights Movement was born. ... Asian Americans were also heavily discriminated against in the aftermath of World War II. ... Japanese Americans were immediately viewed as enemies of the State. ... Women, Asian Americans, Hispanics, and others decided to fight the social norms of the time. ...

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