Going Global
World Literature
•	I want this course to be an exploration; by the end of the course, you should be able to understand the interrelationship of cultures and account for similarities and differences.  You may even perhaps have a new appreciation/ perspective, even if you do not agree
•	WHY????  Because we all have to coexist, like it or not.  Can we really impose one ideology on one another?  Is there a universal ethic?  (These questions are addressed in both summer reading novels.)
What is globalization?
•	What does it mean when we use the term?

•	In order to make a “global” community, does one culture necessarily dominate another?

•	Do ‘melting pots’ really exist?
Ethnocentrism
•	Ethnocentrism-  viewing one’s own culture as superior to another
•	the essential global dichotomy:   Christian vs. non-Christian
•	Religious driven expansionism fuels globalism
•	Is conversion TRULY the motive for imperialsim?