GC Week 9 Memo s2025 Page
16 March 2025
Welcome Back!
I hope you had a great, restful, refreshing spring Break.
What’s Happening Week 9?
This week we’re off to China and Singapore, and to Malaysia where we’ll have a look at Chinese pigs. We’ll see the importance of pigs and eating pigs in the religions of the Chinese and Malay populations in Malaysia. We’ll see how religious questions of what you eat or do not eat can tear families, and whole cultures, apart. And that’s all part of their religion.
These are debates of the times. And some of the debates have been going on for two thousand years or more. Towards the end of the semester we’ll have a closer look at three of the perennial classic debates. Till then, we’re off to China, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Until 2023 China was the most populous country in the world (with about 17.5% of the world’s population, or 1.5 billion people). India overtook China in April of 2023. China is second only to the U.S.A. in nominal GDP (Gross Domestic Product); it is one of the three most powerful countries in the world (by military strength), and it ranks fourth in size by total area. (statista Links to an external site. 1 August 2024.)
Week 9 Overview
GC Wk9 OVERVIEW TO BEGIN MODULE 9.
Week 9 Wrap-UP
Questions? / Comments / Suggestions . . .
If you have any questions or comments right now, please do not hesitate to post them on the “Discussions”, or e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu, or ZOOM https://umn.zoom.us/my/troufs
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Best Wishes,
Tim Roufs
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