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Ch. 33, NoN in a Global Community

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Dayton Accords
creates separate Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian nations, ends the fighting without our own blood shed
Contrasting Views on Feminism
Should laws recognize biological difference or uphold equality; fear of putting women into a mans world built by and for men
Asian Downward Mobility
Professionals have a hard time finding jobs, Asian students start failing in US schools
Proposition 187 & Illegal Aliens
California Proposition passed allowing no schooling, health care, welfare benefits to illegal aliens; struck down because it was unconstitutional to deny illegal aliens' children (born here therefore US citizens) proper education
Inner-City Renewal
areas once seen as slums, rise up; minorities go to college more, own a house, etc
Social Security Crisis
baby boomers around 2010 would soak up a lot of social security, but the govt had been borrowing from it for a while since it was so loaded previously
Banda Music
Mexican Music played in clubs that focused on Mexican nationalism & pride
Blue Collar Asians
San Yi Man, sweatshop workers or restaurants. Many refugees, California and Texas take them in the most. Hour glassà really rich/really poor
Thai Crisis Sets Off an Asian Recession
Japanese recession, and Thai's announcement of closing 56 of 58 banks led to foreign funds being withdrawn and Asian stock exchanges fell
Welfare Reform
goes against long standing liberal welfare policy in that it cuts down the amount of welfare given and places on it restrictions
Changes in the Patterns of Global Immigration
people come to work in service industries, come from all over, not just out neighbors of the south and north
Prosperous Newcomers
Usually Asians, especially Chinese students looking to get a college degree, Indians in computer and software industry, Korean and Filipino in medical fields
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement- ties our economy closer to Mexico and Canada's
Government Shutdown
Clinton threatened to veto the republican budget for the proposed bills and instead of compromising government shutdown, which weakened the republican standing
English as an Official Language
would not allow any other language to be used for govt documents & end to bilingual education in public schools, passed in several states and counties (California, Florida, Dade County in Miami)
Whitewater
Real estate venture gone wrong from which the Clintons both received special treatment, one of his critics attempts to discredit the president morally
Immigration and Control Act of 1986
increased border security, allowed those b4 the act who were illegal to gain citizenship, employers had to make sure their workers were citizens
Aquittal
Partison decision, 5 R's joined 45 Dems to aquit Clinton
Defeat of Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
would have banned underground testing of nuclear weapons
Health Care Reform
Spearheaded by Hilary Clinton it doesn't get passed
Financial Crisis at Home
the Asian financial crisis moved over to us when our backbone investment company (LTCM, Long-Term Capital Management) faced bankruptcy, International Monetary Fund used to give money to those countries in trouble (Russia, Asia, Mexico, Brazil) to avoid a global disaster, Alan Greenspan steps in (Fed Reserve Chair), arranges for LTCM creditors to take over embattled fund
Impeachment
Clinton case tried before Senate w/ William Rehnquist presiding
The WWW
World Wide Web, creation of Tim Berners-Lee applied (http://) allowed freedom of movement, each site w/ own URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
Boris Yeltsin
US depended a lot on this Russian president to bring order out of chaos but he was always sick and had not revived Russia's economy yet either
Intervention in Kosovo
Milosevic (Serbian leader) didn't want to lose Kosovo as well as Croatia and Bosnia but US bombs them as Peacekeepers to end it
East LA
big destination of Mexican migration for jobs in factories, warehouses, railroads, MacArthur Park becomes the new immigration destination
Americans in Haiti
American presence convinces oppressive military regime to leave, exiled elected president returns by new election
OJ Simpson Case
Arrested for the Murder of his White ex-wife & her friend, trial turned into trial of LAPD. Aquittal showed the depths of the racial divide w/in LA & US as a whole
Bush vs. Gore
Gore wins but Bush becomes president because he's got the hook up in Florida; the court case rules that a manual recount of only 3 counties is unconstitutional
Clinton Agenda
Revive economy, lower federal deficit, welfare and health care reform, reduce violence in immigrant neighborhoods
Rodney King and the Los Angeles Riots
Rodney King was a Black man beat by white cops, caught on tape yet the white cops are set free, this causes riots in black community in Los Angeles (April 26, 1992 Sublime song about this)
Proposition 209 Against Affirmative Action
('96) California proposition that eliminated racial & gender preferences in hiring & college admissions Black and Latino college admissions drop a lot as a result
UAW vs. Johnson Controls
Challenged an old case (Muller v Oregon 1908) that forbid laws giving women protection from men based on sex, the issue of fertility health in one job location is brought up and on this basis it is deemed that its up to the woman to decided whether or not to work in a unhealthy environment
Effects of Prosperity
Gap between rich and poor and racial gap narrow
The Contract with America
Newt Gingrich's proposed bills after the Republicans took majority in both house and senate in 1994 for the first time since the Ike years
Complexity of the Riots
Not just blacks rioting, also latinos, and not just rioting against whites but against everyone: exposed tension and competition among ethnic groups
The Galactic Network and ARPANET
Galactic network (1962) was the idea of Licklider, basically the internet; ARPANET (1969) was used to send/store information by the Department of Defense to with stand a nuclear attack should one have occurred during Cold war
The Lewinsky Affair
Oh come on we all know this one, Clinton was banging Monica Lewinsky (white house intern), He got called into court bout sexual misconduct, lied about it ect.
Middle East Peace Negotiations
Negotiations persued by Clinton but Palestinians and Israeli nations could not come to a peace negotiation in either 1998 or 2000
Persistent Poverty
Though the life of blacks in general were better they still had higher percentages in poverty, incapacitated ("on some kind of paper" in jail/ on parole/probation), and many couldn't vote because of felony conviction
Conflicts in Bosnia and Croatia
('91) Both claim Independence but Serbs say no and raise arms against the minorities, Croats fight them back but Bosnian situation more complex & resistence not well organized, Bosnian situation deteriorates to horrifying "ethnic cleansing" on both sides (rape as a military weapon to eradicate Muslims)
Wage Stagnation
Educated workers' wages went up, unskilled or low skill workers wages stayed about the same or fell
Don't ask; Don't tell
Allowed homosexuals to enter army as long as they kept their private life secret/out of the open
Clinton Program
Reduce the deficit but still improve countries infrastructure and spur economy
Economic Political Causes of Immigration
turmoil abroad, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Vietnam, Central America (Mexico), Phillipines
The Dominicans of Washington Heights
Northern tip of NYC prominently Dominican
The Personal Computer
Bill Gates helps turn it into a commercial business
Migration Chain
Juan Chanax, a Mayan from Guatemala came over worked at Randalls and would set up work for more Guatemalans setting up a sort of chain
E-Commerce
Business, buying & selling on the Web

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