| Borderlands | The area of common culture along the border between Mexico and the United States .
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| Colonialism | The maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural dominance over a people by a foreign power for an extended period.
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| Dependency theory | An approach that contends that industrialized nations continue to exploit developing countries for their own gain.
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| Globalization | The worldwide integration of government policies, cultures, social movements, and financial markets through trade and the exchange of ideas.
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| Gross national product (GNP) | The value of a nation's goods and services.
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| Human rights | Universal moral rights possessed by all people because they are human.
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| Modernization | The far-reaching process by which nations pass from traditional forms of social organization toward those characteristic of post–Industrial Revolution societies.
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| Multinational corporation | A commercial organization that is headquartered in one country but does business throughout the world.
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| Neocolonialism | Continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries.
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| Remittances | The monies that immigrants return to their families of origin. Also called migradollars.
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| World systems analysis | A view of the global economic system as one divided between certain industrialized nations that control wealth and developing countries that are controlled and exploited.
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