1 If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.

Agree. What people ignore is that globalisation DOES primarily serve humanity. It takes jobs and puts them overseas and pays less... but those jobs tend to pay more then anything else currently in that country. It takes average jobs from one country... and creates exceptional jobs in another country.

As one economist put it.... "Yeah sweatshops are horrible.... but compaired to what?"

Even child labor helps. When countires in third world nations are pressured to ban child labor... you know what happens? Suddenly a lot of children starve.

2. Strongly Disagree. If I agreed with this there would be no reason to livein a democracy

3. No one chooses his or her country of birth, so it's foolish to be proud of it.

Agree. Being proud of your country is like being proud of your race. All countries are fundamentally the same because all people are fundamentally the same... and a country is it's people.

4. Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.

Strongly Disagree. Outside of a few genetic differences that lead to genetic diseases there is little difference.

5. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Agree. Democracy is needed in the UN styled world.

Globalisation has really helped some countries. I mean, look at South Korea, globalisation really pulled that through to being one of the nicest countries in Asia to live in. And what it's currently doing to China and India is nothing short of amazing.

However, I don't think it's sunshine and skittles everywhere. Take Indonesia, for example, many of the rights of Indonesian people have been removed to allow for firms to cheaply operate in the country. Mind you, Indonesia has been the Western world's pissing ground since the days of Empires.

It's a comparison.  Lots of people hate large corporations.   Few actually decide to get buisness degrees and change the corporations from the inside out.

There are two good ways to change something you disagree with.  Become a part of that institution and change it yourself by your own force of will... or create a rival.

Most people perfer to do neither and instead go to a protest once every couple months with their friends, get drunk and feel self satisfied while nothing changes.

oh, ok, well, i did the later till 2008, but earlier this year, i decided that, rather than just complain, i should look at my options, see if i cant make a difference you know, afterall, as you say, the system wont get better, if the only people who hear different views are thoose who use the web or sit at home.

But what's the alternative? That Indonesia would be stuck on the same level with Vietmom, Kambodja and Laos? That would be even worse.

I don't think there is an alternative, I believe that globalisation is the best way forward. But like everything else, there are problems.

As for Indonesia, that was fucked up by the European Empires coming in and sucking out all its resources, we then had the socialist genocides a few decades ago led by the Brits and the Americans, where a new Government was installed that would let our firms come in and exploit the drained Indonesians.

I just think we should give them a break.

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My views on globalisation is pretty much "rough first, then smooth" - conditions will get better in these countries over the next 20 and 30 years, and who knows, by 2050 much of the far-East could have similar standards of living to some of the European countries.

There will be a few outliers.

Jamaica is another good one.  Globalization destroyed their economy...  National Fruit Company ruined their Bannanna trade, then cheap dark meat the Americans didn't want ruined their chicken trade.

When the government would rather be complicit with the company rather then help it's people... well there is little that could be done anyway.

Then let the discussion commence!  I do agree fmc has an excellent point in bringing up how questions are read by different people.  It's very difficult to have unambiguous questions in a quiz like this, especially when you're trying to keep it fairly short.

When I agreed with the "punish businesses that mislead consumers" question, I was thinking about things like Enron misleading shareholders or false advertising, which I do think should be illegal and therefore punished.  OTOH, do we need the government determining exactly what amount of fat can be in food to be eligible to be labeled "low fat"?  I don't know, except that it takes a huge, unelected and unaccountable bureaucracy to figure these things out and enforce them.

NOTE: sqrl, you have my username misspelled on the chart :(

1 If economic globalisation is inevitable, it should primarily serve humanity rather than the interests of trans-national corporations.

Agree.  I am not against transnational corporations per se, but would strongly agree that preventing them from taking advantage of things like child labor or sweatshops is necessary.

2. I'd always support my country, whether it was right or wrong.

Strongly disagree.  When I support my country it's because I think my country is in the right.  If I lived in North Korea, I probably wouldn't be supporting my country.  If my country were doing horrible things, of course I wouldn't support those.

3. No one chooses his or her country of birth, so it's foolish to be proud of it.

Strongly disagree.  Nothing foolish about it.  This is related to #2 above.  I am proud of my country because of what we are, not because I was born here.  I don't think it's foolish to be proud of what we have achieved.  So yes, I'm proud to have been born here because I think it's the best place to live.

4. Our race has many superior qualities, compared with other races.

Strongly disagree.  Life experiences have confirmed what I felt throughout my lfie to be true, that the amount of melanin in your skin, the shape of your eyes or other minute differences don't mean a whole lot.  Genetically, it's even incorrect to say that there are different "races" of humans since we are all incredibly similar.  Being so similar, it's ridiculous to say that "our race" has superior qualities, since they are the same qualities.

5. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Disagree.  There may be a need to play enemies off each other, but just because Iran and Iraq were at war doesn't mean one of them was our friend.  Take a look at a picture of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam Hussein all those years ago and tell me how well that worked out for us.

I would not recommend attending business school if your goal is to immediately enter into politics. I would recommend a law degree if that is your desire. Nonetheless, business schools cover many areas that pertain to a politician. These include management, public relations, conflict resolution, marketing, etc. In fact, business is the 2nd most listed occupation for US congresspersons. Only law is listed more than business.