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9.3: Challenge Eight: Global Connections

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    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

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