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= **Global Interdependence** =



I believe that the statement, "The human experience no matter where you live is the same" is somewhat true on a basic level but once you dig any deeper, it seems to become more and more false. Global Interdependence is something that makes it similar and different, because any given country can do something that is adopted from another country, make an agreement with another country or do something that creates a conflict with another country such as the relationship between the United States and Mexico or the United States and the Taliban, an example of something that a country can do to bring them closer to other countries is host a World Cup similar to South Africa or create business ties with China. My first country, Mexico goes both positive and negative as does most countries. After all, nobody is perfect; Mexico has been having its Drug Cartel problem with the firearms linking back to the United States of America. The positive is that their trade has increased since the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Also, two years Mexico reopened its cattle training to both Canada and the United States after an infectious disease was found in Canadian cattle. They first reopened trade with Canada by using cattle bins in Texas but they refused to comply with the Canadians until they were allowed to also trade their cattle with Texas. That process took 4 years and 4 months. The US is also having a problem with illegal immigrants fleeing from Mexico into the US Border States and getting regular jobs. What they have been doing is they would work for four times the amount of money in the US that they would receive for the same work back in Mexico and then send a large portion of that back to Mexico. One government official of Mexico said that if it weren’t for the migrants sending remittances back to Mexico he wouldn’t have become state governor. In 2004, thirteen billion US dollars were remitted back to Mexico that puts it out of circulation in the United States. The large amounts of money being sent back to Mexico has caused foreign nations including the US to create foreign and domestic policy involving this under the table form of income. My second, Afghanistan is also a mixture of good and bad relationships, due mainly to the fact that there is a war taken place. There have been large amounts of aid from Turkey and India. India was aided Afghanistan with over $1.2 billion dollars, while Turkey aided over 200 million US dollars worth of economic and technical “assistance” to Afghanistan to help with redeveloping and rebuilding the nation with health system, education, agricultural, and HR development. This has made India the largest donor ever, to the nation of Afghanistan, which is very surprising because Afghanistan is Islamic and India is Hindu. My third country is the second most powerful and the fastest up and coming country in the world, China. Chinese is a very different economy then any other before, especially with its business principles. It is very mixed, unlike that of the US. When in business with the Chinese it is very important to treat them as if they were your friends outside of business but still using the proper business skills. They are very symbolic with colors. Each color means something special to them. When doing business with the Chinese it is not unlikely to give them gifts. They are also very conscious of their environment and using green energy. My last country, South Africa, is very much like a roller coaster. When they hosted the World Cup there country was very positive and hype, but immediately afterwards it once again turned negative, because they usually don’t have something to look forward to, so when something good comes along everyone gets over excited and cannot make it last. South Africa does do a lot of business with China in wind energy, but not with any other countries other than when they hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

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