2015-01-29 Evening: globalization/melting pot

Greg Malivuk
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If you don't yet have a book, bring $50 next Tuesday to rent it. (If you don't write in it, you will receive the $50 back when you finish.)
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Optional class next Wednesday, February 4, 6:15 to 8:15pm.
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drawback = disadvantage, downside
fade = disappear, become less clear or less important
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p. 147
1 cosmopolitanism ("cosmos" = "world" or "universe", "polis" = "city")
2 forged
3 shallowness
4 seen through a prism (also "seen through a lens")
5 prophesied (prophesy - verb, prophecy - noun, prophet - noun for the person)
6 ethnic enclaves
7 breached (specifically broken open, like a wall or other barrier)
8 would-be refugees
9 homogenization (blending together to become all the same)
10 mass migration
11 register
12 melting pot
13 eclectic
prophecy (Greek roots - usually has a religious meaning)
predict (Latin roots - especially science-based or evidence-based predictions)
foretell (Germanic roots - not as common, but especially not in those two cases)

gentrification = when middle-class (usually white European) people move into a previously ethnically diverse neighborhood, which usually drives out the businesses and residents that were there before

witness = see (especially see or perceive and then testify about it in court)

inevitable = unavoidable, inescapable
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p. 148 part A
(In the listening, "would-be refugees" are people who *would* come to a country as refugees, *but* the country makes laws to keep them out.)
1 b
2 c
3 a
4 b
p. 149 part B
1 T (at least, we can make laws to stop immigration)
2 T
3 F (He mentions it as an unusual combination of food and drink.)
4 T
5 F (He's unique, but not an exception.)
6 T
7 F "Contrary to my friend"
8 T
9 T
10 T
11 F "Geography is no longer destiny"
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Homework: p. 149-154
	  text completion
	  reading
	  part B "Reading for Details"