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Week 5 - Discussion 1
Class Warfare and
Global Influence
Prior to beginning work on this discussion, review the following
Required Resources:
·
Chapters 9 and 10 of
the textbook
·
The Coming Race War Won’t
Be About Race
· Social Darwinism Isn’t Dead: Rich People Think They Really Are Different From You and Me
Choose one of the following two options to address in this
discussion. Be sure that your initial post meets the full length requirement of
300 words, and that you incorporate at least two of this week’s required
resources in your post, one of which should be the textbook. Include citations
and a full reference to your chosen sources. (See the Required Resources page
for all references in APA format).
Option 1: Read The Coming Race War Won’t
Be About Race and Social Darwinism Isn’t
Dead: Rich People Think They Really Are Different From You and Me . This article notes that “The U.S. Census
Report finds that 50 million Americans are poor. Fifty million voters is a
powerful block if they ever organized in an effort to pursue their common
economic goals. So, it’s crucial that those in the wealthiest One Percent keep
the poor fractured by distracting them with emotional issues like immigration,
abortion and gun control so they never stop to wonder how they got so screwed
over for so long” (Abdul-Jabbar, 2014).
·
What kind of class
divides do you see in the US today?
·
How are race, gender,
ethnicity, and other variables that we have covered in the class related to
class?
Option 2: Prior to listening to the following
story, reflect on the following:
·
What are your thoughts
on reality TV?
o Did you ever notice that it could have the
power to change the way people think about the world or have a positive impact
on people’s lives?
Next, listen to The
Other Real World podcast
and address the following:
·
Has your view of
reality TV changed?
·
How do you feel about
“foreign powers using popular media to influence the emotional climate and
therefore the politics of another country?”
o Have you noticed any other instances of
governments using the media to influence outcomes in another country?
o What positive impact could this kind of norms
engineering have?
o What negative impacts could it have?
·
Do you think that
future conflicts will be fought more often via media rather than via active
combat?