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World Population and Global Inequality
1) How does the lack of development create high population growth and a young population in poor countries? Why does development create low population growth and an aging population in rich countries?
2) How do functional or modernization theories explain why poor countries are poor and lack development due to cultural values? How do modernization theories explain why are poor countries poor and rich countries rich? Who or what does modernization theory blame for the lack of development in poor countries?
3) How do structural theories such as world systems theory explain why rich countries are rich and poor countries are poor in terms of colonialism? How does world systems theory explain why rich countries are rich and poor countries are poor? Who or what does world systems theory blame for the lack of development in poor countries?
4) How did colonialism create the world capital system in which European countries, the U.S., Australia, and Japan (Japan colonized parts of Asia) in the core of the system control poor countries in the periphery? How do core countries now control the land, labor, and resources of poor countries through transnational corporations? How are poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the periphery kept poor by having their resources and labor go to rich countries and transnational corporations?
5) How did the British and Anglo-American colonial system of slavery in the U.S. in which Africans and Black Americans were enslaved for their labor create white wealth? How did the British and Anglo-American colonization and conquest of Native people in the U.S. for their land create white wealth? How did upper class white men like George Washington, the first U.S. president, become wealthy?
6) How did French colonialism in Haiti make France rich and Haiti poor country? How did the U.S. and Europe keep Haiti poor after the French left?
7) How did the British colonize Aboriginal people in Australia by taking their children away and sending them to boarding schools ("the stolen generation") in order to take their culture and land? How did British colonialism include "breeding out" the Aboriginal population to remove them from their land?
8) Why is Angola poor even though it is rich in resources like oil and diamonds? Why are few resources going to build hospitals, schools, and roads to develop the country? Why are children dying of preventable diseases? Why are women unable to get birth control?
9) How does global inequality create food insecurity and malnutrition? How does the coronavirus pandemic create more deaths from hunger and malnutrition in poor countries?
10) How does the system of patriarchy in which women are denied access to education and jobs and are limited to marriage and motherhood create overpopulation? How does raising women's status in society lower fertility rates?