CHRISTIAN JOHN PAUL L.

LIJAYAN BSME-2E
Week 11
Just please write your answers on the discussion sheet and capture them and send
through PM to me.
Answer TWO (2) from the four choices as follows:
1. Question 1 and 3 (combine Question Nos.1 and 3 as one question because of
their ease), and choose either Question No.2 or Question No.4

1&3. Differentiate global citizens from global citizenships and define the ethics of global
citizenship.

A global citizen is a person who is widely aware of the world that he or she’s in
and is someone that recognizes the responsibilities imposed on him or her. A person
that has the willingness to play active roles in the community and help other people as
well, whether within or across boundaries. While, global citizenship is a principle that,
rather than just their local communities or states, all individuals have civic duties to the
world in general. Thus, by widening one’s horizon through global learning and making
them understand these responsibilities and values that they should uphold, an individual
can impact change in a more meaningful sense on both a small and larger scale.
The ethics of global citizenship are the underlying principles, which help the
citizens and the countries to solve problems of inequality, injustice, and violence across
the globe. These ethics are the standards or the moral values that determine what is
socially accepted and/or rejected. By following the ethics of global citizenship, we may
reduce social and political problems that will bring social equilibrium to every nation
globally.

2. What are the three main approaches to global economic resistance? Describe each
one.

So, there are three approaches to global economic resistance. The first
approach is trade protectionism. It is a politically motivated defense measure for the
economy of a particular state which is done by restricting international trade to help
domestic industries. It protects these industries from unfair competition from foreign
ones through putting up tariffs, subsidies, quotas, and also through currency
manipulation. Second is the Fair Trade, which is an approach that enables producers
and local workers (usually farmers) to have more control over their products and
services rather than having them being dictated by the market. In a nutshell, it is when
producers in developing countries are paid a fair price for their work, by companies in
developed countries, for them to afford life's essentials - like food, education, and
healthcare. The third approach to global economic resistance is Helping the Bottom
Billion based on Paul Collier. This approach is all about helping developing countries
across the world that are economically stagnant and who still thrives to overcome the
problems of poverty. He suggested that there are four traps to which these developing
countries constantly suffer. These are scarcity of natural resources, local and
international conflicts, being landlocked and surrounded by bad neighbors, and bad
governance. Thus, by helping these countries (e.g., having adaptable societal standards
and norms, and reduction of trade barriers) overcome these traps, problems of poverty,
inequality, injustice, and such if not eradicated, will be reduced.