SYP 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Desmond Tutu, Millennium Development Goals
28 Apr 2018
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I. Global Citizenship!
A. Organizations !
1. Sociologists w/out borders!
2. doctors w/out borders!
3. reporters w/out borders!
B. Tensions/Contradictions !
1. Perceived severity of needs (Chiapans and Hondurans p. 12)!
a) There are many injustices in the world. Human effort is finite!
2. National vs. global citizenship!
C. If “the only true nation is humanity” what becomes of nationalism and patriotism?!
1. “We realized then and we need to realize now, that we are bound by a common,
vulnerability, bound together by our common passion for freedom… we are bound
up in the bundle of life.” (Bishop Desmond Tutu)!
D. There can be no freedom/justice until there is global freedom/justice!
E. Example of simultaneous local and global citizenship!
1. Zapatista movements in Chiapas Mexico (fight for rights of indigenous peoples
everywhere)!
2. A place called Chiapas!
F. Purging our “racism”!
1. Moral Philosophers:!
2. “We are bound to show kindness to [our] parents and spouse and children, and to
other kinsmen in a lesser degree:and to those who rendered services to [us] and
generally to human beings to their affinity to ourselves.”!
3. Acro’s response: that behavior is universal and has roots in our evolutionary history
does not mean that it cannot or should not be changes!
4. Requires acting in ways that are counterintuitive !
G. Model for Global Citizenship!
H. Jeffery Saachs!
1. United Nations Millennium Development Goals!
a) Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger!
b) achieve universal primary education!
c) promote gender equality and empower women!
d) Reduce Child morality!
e) Improve maternal health!
f) Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases !
g) Ensure environment sustainability !
h) Develop a global partnership for development!
I. Paul Farmer- anthropologist and !
J. Paul Polak (How can we do this?)!
1. Go where the action is !
2. talk to the people that are experiencing them and listen to them!
3. learn everything there is to learn about a specific problem!
K. Acro’s retraction!
1. Took back his original statement that all people are more racist than they think!
II. Global Culture!
A. What is culture?!
1. “…all learned beliefs and behaviors, the rules by which we order our lives, and the
meanings that humans construct to interpret their universes and their place in them”
(Definition from week 1)!
2. The shared reality, including ideas and patterned of peoples w/in a geographic
religion. (Basirico and Bolin, 27 )!
3. Refers to a common worldview/shared ways of doing things !
4. General (but not full) agreement !
5. People may agree about general principles but disagree specific manifestations !
