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Week 5 -
Discussion 1
ANT 101 Week 5 Discussion 1 | ashford university
Your initial discussion thread is due on Day 3 (Thursday) and
you have until Day 7 (Monday) to respond to your classmates. Your grade will
reflect both the quality of your initial post and the depth of your responses.
Refer to the Discussion Forum Grading Rubric under the Settings icon above for
guidance on how your discussion will be evaluated.
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Class Warfare
and Global Influence [WLOs: 1, 2] [CLOs: 2, 4, 5] |
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the following
Required Resources:
·
Chapters 9 and 10 of
the textbook
·
The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race (Links to an
external site.)
·
The Other Real World (Links to an external site.)
Choose one of the following two options to address in this
discussion. Be sure that your initial post meets the full length requirement of
300 words, and that you incorporate at least two of this week’s required
resources in your post, one of which should be the textbook. Include citations
and a full reference to your chosen sources. (See the Required Resources page
for all references in APA format).
Option 1: Read The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race (Links to an external
site.) and Social Darwinism Isn’t Dead: Rich People Think They Really Are
Different From You and Me (Links to an external site.). This article notes that “The U.S. Census
Report finds that 50 million Americans are poor. Fifty million voters is a
powerful block if they ever organized in an effort to pursue their common
economic goals. So, it’s crucial that those in the wealthiest One Percent keep
the poor fractured by distracting them with emotional issues like immigration,
abortion and gun control so they never stop to wonder how they got so screwed
over for so long” (Abdul-Jabbar, 2014).
·
What kind of class
divides do you see in the US today?
·
How are race, gender,
ethnicity, and other variables that we have covered in the class related to
class?
·
How do different
economic classes view each other, according to the two articles you read for
this discussion? Do you agree with the authors of these articles? Support your
position with information from credible sources.
Option 2: Prior to listening to the following
story, reflect on the following:
·
What are your thoughts
on reality TV?
o Did you ever notice that it could have the
power to change the way people think about the world or have a positive impact
on people’s lives?
Next, listen to The Other Real World (Links to an external site.) podcast and address the following:
·
Has your view of
reality TV changed?
·
How do you feel about
“foreign powers using popular media to influence the emotional climate and
therefore the politics of another country?”
o Have you noticed any other instances of
governments using the media to influence outcomes in another country?
o What positive impact could this kind of norms
engineering have?
o What negative impacts could it have?
·
Do you think that
future conflicts will be fought more often via media rather than via active
combat?
USA 
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