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Do you consider yourself a global citizen? <...> Predict 5 vocabulary items the article will contain Skim the article. <...> Write down what the main theme of the text is. <...> Explain any unknown words you meet in the text. <...> What do the words in bold type in the text mean? <...> Globalization includes the emergence of the global citizen, who thinks of the world as one community and feels a responsibility to the planet. <...> The size of the 2007 Live Earth concerts, which engaged 2 billion people worldwide, is evidence that the concept of a global citizen, even if not fully developed, is emerging. <...> When people eat a Big Mac or drink a Coke, they are consuming more than a burger or a drink; they are also consuming American/Western images and their associated values. <...> Just because a Big Mac or a Coke can be found anywhere in the world does not mean that locally, regionally, or nationally inspired products vanish. <...> As a case in point, each year there are an estimated 300 million border crossings from Mexico into the United States (one indicator of global interdependence). <...> Match the terms from A with their definitions from B: A: 1) gross national income (GNI), 2) third-world countries, 3) economy, 4) postindustrial society, 5) labor force participation rate, 6) core countries (core nations). 7) globalization, 8) multinational corporation, 9) first-world countries, 10) second-world countries, 11) international division of labor B: a) countries that are poor, underdeveloped, largely rural, and with high levels of poverty; typically governments in such countries are autocratic dictatorships and wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small elite; b) countries with state-managed economies and typically without a democratically elected government; c) a society economically dependent upon the production and distribution of services, information, and knowledge; d) corporations that conduct business across national borders; e) the percentage of those in a given category who are employed; f) system of labor whereby products are produced globally, while profits accrue only to a few; g) the total output of goods and services produced by residents of a country each year plus the income from nonresident sources, divided <...>