Internet Exercises

Internet Exercises

1. Cultural Survival Today: Go to the Survival International web site at http://www.survival.org.uk/, and go to the Campaigns News. Browse the titles of the latest news articles and select two or three to read and use them to answer the questions below.
   1. What kinds of groups are discussed in the articles you read? Where are these societies located?
   2. What threats to their cultural survival are discussed?
   3. Are there commonalities in the threats to different cultural groups you have read about?
   4. What recommendations would you make to help ensure the survival of these groups?
      
      
2. Genocide in Cambodia: Go to Andy Carvin's site entitled From Slideshow to Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust: The Khmer Rouge Years at http://edweb.gsn.org/sideshow/khmeryears/index.html. Read all of the sections.
   1. Who are the Khmer Rouge? What is their political philosophy?
   2. On what basis did the Khmer Rouge distinguish between "New People" and "Old People"?
   3. What is the Angka? Who did they want to kill and how did they go about doing it?
   4. What role the Modern World System play in the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge? Where did Communism originate? How were the Khmer Rouge toppled?