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Post your notes here from Chapter 8 on The Globalization of Social Problems from the book, Eitzen, D. S. & Zinn Baca M. (Eds). (2012). Globalization: The transformation of social worlds. Wadsworth Learning.

Make sure you write a thesis or general statement that summarizes the main idea of the reading. Then, insert facts or statements to support that statement.

I**ntroduction (by editors):**


 * Reading 27: Saving Turtle Island**

**Summary**
====This article was about the privatization of the oil industry in Mexico and the impact that it has on the natural environment in the Gulf of Mexico. The author spends very little time talking about the environment and a majority of the time talking about how bad the privatization of the petroleum industry is in Mexico by big oil companies.This author’s ideas were presented very sporadically throughout the article making it difficult to follow his thought trail. He discusses the factors that influence President Felipe Calderon’s thoughts to privatize oil and how the BP oil spill boosted his craving to privatize this industry.====

**Questions**
3. How could the loss of wildlife negatively affect Mexico and the other countries surrounding the Gulf of Mexico? 4. How have we (U.S.) influenced Mexico's decision to privatize their oil industry?
 * 1) ====Is the author using the environment as a ploy to get the emotions of the readers on his side?====
 * 2) ====Is the privatization of the Mexican petroleum really that bad for the Mexican government and people?====


 * Reading 28: Don't go there: The whole world has the travel bug. And, its ravaging the plane**t.

**Summary**
====In this article, the author discusses the impact that the tourism industry has on local cultural locations. She talks about how there has been a negative impact on the places that only a couple of years ago was not even visited. Also, she talks about the negative impact that the tourism industry has on the environment.The author’s opinion was extremely bias, she focused more on the negative effects of tourism and rarely mentioned the positives. She touches on how tourism creates a “large carbon footprint” and often causes the native culture to assimilate into a more modern industrial society.====

**Questions**

 * 1) ====Why does the author not talk about the positive economic impact that tourism has on the local economy?====
 * 2) ====What positive impact has the UN’s World Tourism Organization had on the world?====
 * 3) In what ways are these large resorts, hotels, tourist attractions, etc. affecting the lower class natives?
 * 4) How does eurocentrism play a positive role in tourism?


 * Reading 29: Global Trade of Electronic Waste** (Group 4).

There is proof that some guns that were purchased in the United States are used in the Mexican drug cartels. Some people purchase guns in the United States, and then sell them to the Mexican drug cartels so that the cartels can protect themselves. This causes a slight conflict because the United States is trying to prevent the supply of drugs into the country, but the lack of gun laws is making it easier to smuggle drugs into the United States. In Houston, a person can go to different gun stores everyday over a period of time, and no one would even know, because it doesn’t alert anyone.
 * Reading 30: US Stymied as Guns Flow to Mexican Cartels** (Group 4).
 * Summary**
 * Facts**

In Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, gun dealers can sell any number of rifles to anyone who has a driver’s license and a clean record without reporting the sales to the government. Private sellers are not required to keep a record of the buyer’s name, and they are not required to report the sale to the A.T.F. Federal agents say that 90% of 12,000 pistols and rifles that the Mexican authorities recovered from drug dealers last year came from dealers in the United States. For the past two years the A.T.F and Immigration Customs Enforcement have improved their efforts to stop smuggling. 1). Why have the United States been so reluctant about making stricter gun laws? 2). Does the government believe that the Mexican drug cartels would continue to smuggle drugs into the United States even with stricter gun laws? 3). Why are the gun laws so lenient? 4). What role does globalization play in the smuggling of drugs from Mexico to the United States?
 * Questions**


 * Reading 31: Diseases Travel Fast, but So do tools to fight them**

In what ways are these large resorts, hotels, tourist attractions, etc. affecting the lower class natives? In what ways are these large resorts, hotels, tourist attractions, etc. affecting the lower class natives?
 * Reading 32: Forced Prostitution**