Skip to main content
Social Sci LibreTexts

8.2: Challenge Eight- Global Connections

  • Page ID
    22258
  • \( \newcommand{\vecs}[1]{\overset { \scriptstyle \rightharpoonup} {\mathbf{#1}} } \) \( \newcommand{\vecd}[1]{\overset{-\!-\!\rightharpoonup}{\vphantom{a}\smash {#1}}} \)\(\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\range}{\mathrm{range}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\RealPart}{\mathrm{Re}}\) \( \newcommand{\ImaginaryPart}{\mathrm{Im}}\) \( \newcommand{\Argument}{\mathrm{Arg}}\) \( \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\| #1 \|}\) \( \newcommand{\inner}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \(\newcommand{\id}{\mathrm{id}}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\) \( \newcommand{\kernel}{\mathrm{null}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\range}{\mathrm{range}\,}\) \( \newcommand{\RealPart}{\mathrm{Re}}\) \( \newcommand{\ImaginaryPart}{\mathrm{Im}}\) \( \newcommand{\Argument}{\mathrm{Arg}}\) \( \newcommand{\norm}[1]{\| #1 \|}\) \( \newcommand{\inner}[2]{\langle #1, #2 \rangle}\) \( \newcommand{\Span}{\mathrm{span}}\)\(\newcommand{\AA}{\unicode[.8,0]{x212B}}\)

    Challenge Eight: Global Connections

    Your challenge is to connect with someone from a foreign country, preferably somebody with a very different cultural and socio-economic background from yourself.


    Objective: Expand the mindset, method, and goals of anthropology to a global level, broadening your understanding of cultural differences, global connections, and how the world works to bring about prosperity and well as poverty and inequality.


    Option 1: Find someone from a foreign country who actually helped create something that you own. Go to anth101.com/challenge8 for tips on how to find somebody.


    Option 2: Connect with an international student using the questions from Challenge 7. Contact your local international student office to find somebody


    Option 3: Connect with anyone from a foreign country using the questions from Challenge 7.


    Take a picture that represents your experience and share #anth101challenge8


    This page titled 8.2: Challenge Eight- Global Connections is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Michael Wesch via source content that was edited to the style and standards of the LibreTexts platform; a detailed edit history is available upon request.