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q1

 Natadecha-Sponsel  talks about, in “Individualism as an American Cultural Value,” the role  of communalism (e.g. focus on the group/community) as opposed to  individualism. What do you see as the role of these two values in East  Asia? And how do they compare to at least one of the other societies  that we’ve talked about? 

q2

 Black Panther is  about a futuristic society that avoided the calamities of European  colonialism and thus, through control of their own resources and  technological innovation, its people were able to thrive and far exceed  the progress of other global societies. While this is fictional (a brand of storytelling called  Afrofuturism), it reflects a way of considering the role of contingency  in the past (e.g. how could things have been different).

Embracing this approach (but with a more historically-based  approach), how might things have been different in Haiti if foreign  countries had not insisted on intervening on a near-constant basis. You  can use traditional narrative or tell a fictional story about the place  that would exist.

q3

 Assess  the role of multi-culturalism in Europe. To what degree is European  identity about ancestry and to what degree is it about belonging? Can  people from e.g. former European colonies “be” European? Why or why not?