Maps and Globes

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Maps and Globes

• As a group, generate as many written examples as
  you can of the similarities and differences
  between maps and globes.

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What can we see from looking at these examples?

• There are more examples of differences than of
  similarities.
• You have to turn a globe to see whats on the
  other side.
• Maps allow us to create boundaries but with a
  globe we see the whole world.

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What can we learn about globalization from this
exercise?

• There are two ways of looking at things detail
  (how they are the same and different) and meaning
  (what these examples show us).
• When we look on the other side of the world, we
  see new perspectives.
• Focus on differences alone makes the differences
  primary in importance when they may not be.
  Recognize that both similarities and differences
  are found worldwide.
• As business people, we are part of an
  interconnected world so we have to learn to live
  with and appreciate those interconnections.
• We will be most effective and have most
  information when we use all tools before us,
  e.g., maps and globes, perspectives other than
  our own.