On/Off subject :P

Since I figured this had to deal with Sociology, I decided to post this here. (Of course I don't understand how to make another blog...ahem. I'm so technology ignorant sometimes). How do some people feel about globalization? I'm reading The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman. At first, it was a simple extra credit homework report from my History teacher, just simply read chapters 1 and 7. But as I go on out of sheer boredom, I realize how truthful this book is. (For those that do not know, the book is about globalization and the effects it has on the world. In other words, The World Is Flat. We depend so much that our independence is almost nonexistent). So as a concerned Sociology student, I must ask this question. Is Globalization good for us? Mr. Friedman writes about how he goes to India and see's Texas buildings, how no one in the country has kept their traditions. It's understandable, to me, anyways. He goes on, speaking of how the women and men of India are those who we can for answers to computers and machines they've never dealt with. How they are the callers we so rudely hang up on as they try to make wages on their sales (Don't feel bad, I've done it plenty of times). Is this good for us, or bad? What happens if we go to war, or we need to depend on our own country for survival? I don't believe we could do it. I don't think Japan could do it. China. Europe... No one. So do you feel globalization brings us all together or destroying us secretly? Ahem, I'm off my soapbox for tonight. I think.

-Kelley :)

Eminent Domain

Eminent Domain is an action of the state to seize a citizen's private property, expropriate property, or seize a citizen's rights in property with due monetary compensation, but without the owner's consent. ====== Eminent Domain differs from country to country depending on what country it is and whatever their rights suggest. For the United States, we seize that land if it's just and fair. But if we compensate it, the money actually does go back to that person who had their land taken from them. So in a way, they get back their money despite the problems transitioning from whatever started it in the first place. Canada resembles our system in the same why. They sell the place, but owners can still advance claims. Other that, public authorities can take away the home for public purposes. -Kelley :)

Is My Neighborhood Culturally Diverse?

1. I don't believe that our neighborhood is culturally diverse. Besides limited race in Oak Cliff, the economy is all one in the same. People do the exact same thing, wear the same thing, and talk the same way. We're practically robots who can't speak properly. 2. You always hear someone here talking about a culture they don't understand. I called myself agnostic in front of a class full of Christians and was happy looks could not kill. People here make fun of 'private' schools like it's not a good thing to pay and want education. Blacks make fun of whites and Mexicans, and vice versa. 3. We would not react very well if someone with a different culture came here, especially those that we didn't understand. Best way would be communication between us to try and understand. After all, education and knowledge of what we were once ignorant of makes the world a better place, right? -Kelley :)