Our society has become interdependent with each other in many ways through things like trade, technology, culture, and immigration. ... The affected countries were Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea and Philippines and they were all somehow tied together economically, making the economic downfall a more serious one. ... Land eventually move away from nation-state, cultures, and tribalism defined by historical borders, language, and religion towards a more global culture that is necessary for human civilization to move to even greater and bigger endeavors. ... First, globaliz...

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For example, Beneria discussed a situation in Peru in which soup kitchens were staffed with women as are the gender norms of that culture. ... In my own experience in the Philippines I found that the government was run by those who were also in control of the local economy and thus the government will make ridiculous rules against foreign multi-nationals in order to preserve their own investments. ...

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Take the example of a multinational mining company discharging toxic effluent into a stream in the Philippines, poisoning fish stocks, along with the strong possibility that it will impact the health of people downstream. ...

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The main reason why this crisis was instigated was because countries such as Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines had embraced an unusual policy combination of liberalisation of controls on flows of financial capital on the one hand, and quasi -fixed heavily managed exchange rate systems on the other. ...

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