liberal arts homework

1.What could we as individuals, and as a country (United States), do to be more empathetic and move ourselves up on the list?

2.What are your thoughts on reading fiction, as one option, to improve one’s empathy? Is that something anyone in this course has considered?

Here is an article exploring that:

https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/reading-fiction-really-will-make-you-nicer-more-empathetic-new-study-says.html

Please read the entirety of Anholt’s piece beginning on page 88.

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The marketization of foreign cultural policy: The cultural nationalism of the competition state

Somogy Varga presents a cogent assessment on the importance of foreign cultural policy through the prism of Germany’s Goethe-Institut. Varga’s (2013) research provides a “sustained theoretical examination of this particular tool of policy and a close look at its historical origins, development, and current transformations” to “uncover vital aspects that are at risk of being ignored by foreign policy researchers” (Varga, 2013, p. 442). Varga’s presentation tactfully takes you through the shifts in German foreign cultural policy as Germany’s economic dominance grows as a competition state.

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Video

Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?

Globalization can generate positive and negative scenarios. Thus, opportunities to do “good” should exceed the negative effects of globalization. Simon Anholt (2014), presents the results of research that measured countries ability to do good for one another. The results may reveal unexpected outcomes.

3. Based on the video, Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world? What **is** the most good for the world, anyway?

4. What are the needs of the world’s people? In order to answer this question, should we first understand global living conditions?

Related to that, here is an article and population cartogram as food for thought to help us consider how global

(TedTalk, 2014), what is the “good” you see the United States doing in living conditions are changing. The population cartogram shows sizes of nations on the map based on their population size:

https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-cartogram

4a.How does this affect your thinking on what “the most good” for the world might be?