Questions for blog:
1. Identify the conflict. Is this an internal or external conflict?
2. How/why does globalization create conflict? In the speaker's opinion, globalization has flown in only one direction. What does she mean by this?
3. Although the speaker feels globalization has been one-sided, she notes there has been one benefit related to the process. What benefit does she mention?
4. The speaker says Muslims and Westerners live by/are obligated to two different sources of truth. What two sources (two texts) does she mention?
Answers:
1. The conflict deals with the issue of the headscarf and how different people view it and the women who wear it. This is an external conflict because it involves multiple people/nations.
2. Globalization creates conflict because when different cultures are trying to share ideas with one another, there will be some difference of opinion on certain things. She means that it is only flowing in one direction in that only one culture is taking in parts of the other (the other culture is biased).
3. She says that globalization has opened up a lot of role models. It released different ideas of what it means to be a woman.
4. Westerners live by the U.S. Constitution, and Muslims live by the Qur'an.
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