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Immigration can be considered inherently political because it naturally elicits controversy regarding how it will impact local communities, native citizens, and their jobs, as well as the general economy of the country. This subsequently creates a divide on how people think we should handle the subject. Immigration is relevant because it basically regulates where people have the discretion to live in the world. On the community level, a large portion of Sunset's own populace is quite diverse implying immigration. Locally, Portland's job opportunities may be impacted by immigration, and furthermore, on the national scale immigration has affected the US's economy greatly. Globally, immigration has created many cultural implications around the world.

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Education is not an inherently political subject, however, to a certain extent it has been politicized, especially regarding what and how information is taught to students. An example would be information taught about LGBTQ+, or other adjacent topics. Education is important because it impacts the youth and consequently future generations of society. It affects the ideologies and thought processes of people regarding political and humanitarian issues. Sunset is a school, so of course what is allowed to be taught and how information is controlled does impact the sunset student body. Locally, education influences the political opinions of local citizens. Nationally, education can similarly impact ideas and partially impact political worldview. Finally, globally, differing education may cause strife between international powers and their people.

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Gun Violence is inherently political due to gun rights being within our constitution as well as the impact it has on the majority of society. To some extent gun violence can be politicized as political leaders use it to gain power over supporters. Gun violence is a large issue as we see it take many forms in our lives, one of those being school shootings, which instills fear within students all over America. We have been affected by this at sunset during lock downs, as we don't know if someone is going to end our lives or not. Within portland we have seen gun violence based off of race, or sexuality. Nationally we can see all over the states of America deaths that have occured due to gun violence, on an international level, we can see that gun violence is an inherently American problem. This being an American problem makes it controversial in our society.

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Healthcare in the modern world has been politicized internationally/globally, especially in the U.S, due to determined regulations, policies, finance, and laws of their respective countries. Some countries nationalize their healthcare system with strict regulations, while some such as the U.S privatize medicare with independent insurance companies to cover costs, mainly de-regulated. One example of the political aspects of healthcare are the recent and controversial changes in abortion laws and policies, which had to be processed and debated in numerous bodies of government without contradiction (to pre-existing laws or policies) to be put into effect.

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Income inequality is inherently political since it's so largely impactful on an individual's life and how it impacts people of power.  Income inequality is vital because it directly implicates how people live their lives, essentially their lifestyles. We see income inequality everywhere. In Sunset we see examples of income inequality with how certain students required reduced prices for lunches. Locally in Beaverton/Portland, we see many taking trimet because they aren't able to afford gas prices or their own car. Nationally we see a large disparity in income between genders. The minimum wage in certain states is also disproportionately low. Finally, globally, there are a plethora of third-world countries in which extreme poverty runs rampant, for example, the garment industry present in Southern Asian countries.

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Climate change has become politicized because in order to excecute any sort of change to affect this requires mass amounts of money, resources and power. The polarization of ideas on
Locally we have experienced this with record highs in temperature, and snow very late into the year. It's also seen in local government, where recycling and sustainability has been accented.
Nationally this is seen by the rising sea levels, major flooding, extreme weather, and displacement/extinction of animals. Factories and corporations produce mass amounts of pollution, but the government regulates climate laws(companies w pollution)
affected by this by heat waves, droughts, fires, pollution/air quality,
Rising sea level

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we believe that this issue is inherently political because it relate to relations between governments, which would be political. relations between the people of different countries could be politicized, such as during a war where the people may have an adverse opinion of the other countries people.

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- Natural Disasters are politicized
- Natural Disasters are Political because it relates to Climate Change.
- The way people react to the disaster, how the locals react, the government reacts, etc.
- People don't agree with how to handle the disaster.
-There are policies about how to react to the disaster.
-What money goes where and how big is the budget to repair the natural disasters?
- Local: Oregon wildfires and how Oregonians can do their part to help out, causing opposing view points.
Nationally: Texas snowstorm. The senator was MIA and went to Mexico when Texas was in crisis.
- Global: do we have a responsibility to help others who are in crisis because of a natural disaster?

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this issue has been politicized because it comes down to the freedom of an individual to do what they want with their person. the government shouldn't have to regulate the daily behaviors of a person.

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Houselessness is politicized because governments have the ability/power to help people and how and to what extent they do that is subject to debate and controversy.
Many people have opinions and beliefs on whether on not people should be allowed to live freely on the streets, which is polarizing and controversial.
Houslessness relates to people's basic needs and as such relates to people's rights and has a very large impact on their life, and as such is politicized.

We can see houselessness on a local level, as there is a large populace of people who are living without a home in the Portland metropolitan area, and how we treat them and what aid they receive is a strong political issue.

On the international level, we can see different approaches to houselessness and how people who are houseless are treated, and what kind of resources are devoted to them. Different countries have different methods how to help them and try to rehome them and help them become more self-sufficient. Different political policies on houselessness have different success rates. For example one of the countries with the most successful program for houselessness is Finland, which has cut its houselessness to 1/4 of what it was 30 years ago.

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this is a politicized issue because the farmers belong to a private sector that, while receiving subsidies, is not part of the government. because it is not part of, nor something the government has the right to regulate, it is politicized because it has not inherent relation to the government.

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- Technology is politicized
- Artificial Intelligence, self driving cars, robots, etc.
- Privacy: Is the gov. allowed to track you through tech?
- This is a political subject because of the way tech is used and how much value is put on it.
- Surgical Robots create sides because many people may want robots to operate on them because they think the robot will be safer, some want an actual person operating on them, etc.
- Community: are we being watched on Chromebooks? stuff is blocked, it's not technically your computer, it creates sides.
- Local: What level of privacy are people entitled to? Who's being watched? Should everybody be being watched or certain people only?
- Global: In China there are Face ID scanners everytime you enter a store.

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Land is inherently political because of how land is controlled by the federal government. In Oregon, this is especially true because the majority of is owned by the federal government. The way land is managed always affects us, such as how we face high property taxes in Oregon.

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Taxes are inherently political as there are differing opinions on how this process should take place and the allocation of the funds acquired through this process. Taxes are very polarizing because of these differing opinions and beliefs relating to them. Taxes are also related to power because money is a form of power.

We can see taxes at Sunset High School as some students and faculty have to pay taxes to the government.
We can see taxes at the local level as most people have to pay taxes. We can also see that local tax rates are driving small businesses out of the area.
We can see taxes playing a role in international politics in the form of power. They exist as a way to politically and economically harm other countries. Tariffs can be controversial having differing and adverse effects on both economies, as well as having people call into question whether it is necessary or prudent to use them.

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Identity is a politicized issue. In certain parts of the world, your identity could cause you exemption from state privileges.
(Ex: Gay marriage)
The people who hold power in government may view certain aspects of your identity as illegitimate, immoral, or against their religion/traditions.
They will base those values as their justification to exempt you from the privileges that are had by others.
Making a point to demonize specific aspects of identity makes it easier to generalize an entire group of people, when making a scapegoat, or when creating a common enemy to rally your political party.
(Ex: Uyghurs in china, BLM, mexicans)
Ex in sunset: Woke sunset teachers criticized for "indoctrination"

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- The Supreme court makes the law on drugs and the Criminal justice system persecutes people for it.
- Inherently political because it has to do with our criminal justice system. They decide what drugs should be legal and what shouldn't.
- The war on drugs has targeted immigrants and people of color and labeled as "drug mules" and put a stereotype on them.
- The users are penalized more than the dealer
- Community: In 2015, Oregon was one of the first states to legalize Marijuana.
- Local: Oregon doesn't penalize people for selling drugs.
- Global: In the Olympics, many people have used steroids or marijuana and were cut out of the Olympics. There were many opposing viewpiints as to how it should be dealt with and if they should have been able to compete or not.

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Race has become political because of the structures of power that are built off the idea of race. Historically, this issue has been politicized because race is more of a social construct that has influenced politics and history (originally race wasn't a determining factor of someone's treatment). Despite the fact that the idea of race was created by humans, race is still a pressing issue in modern day society. It affects millions of people through both systemic and individual issues. We see race affect people's everyday lives on both a community and national level. Within the community, we can see individual acts of racism, usually in the form of racist statements. Locally and nationally, laws can affect the chances of different races succeeding in certain areas (redlining laws put people of color in urban heat islands and underfunded areas). Globally, race and racism can differ based on the majority and history of the country

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energy is not an inherently political issue. It is needed for most things in our modern world, but has been politicized due to economics surrounding it, controversial ways we get energy, and it being used to support certain political parties (Keystone XL Pipe is one example)
community- At Sunset high school, only about half the school has air conditioning, which is still expensive. Costs to keep AC going in hot months can be very high due to high levels of energy consumption.
local- PGE is planning on cutting power to large areas of Oregon due to the intense winds and weather, because there are worries that power lines may cause wildfires, which has been seen before in central Oregon and California.
national- fracking and drilling for oil to keep up with the demand for energy and power is an incredibly politicized stance. Most electoral candidates address it in some way.
international- crypto mining consumes energy at an astronomical rate and has led to some governments cutting back on the amount of energy people can use due to shortages, which made the issue political.
global- nuclear energy can be a short term solution, but the nuclear waste it produces can have a long term affect on the entire planet. Whether short term fixes to save our planet or finding long term solutions while it continues to get worse is more important is a hotly debated topic.

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At one point it was inherently political but because of the separation of church and state, it is no longer inherently political but now politicized. In 1833 religion was disestablished from the government and shouldn't be used to make legal and political decisions. Because of it being once connected to the government in America at least, it still is a common piece of "information" people used to base their decisions on. It does matter because people use religion that not everyone believes to make decisions over what people should do. Since Oregon is a pretty unreligious state compared to other states, it might be more untouched by decisions guided by religion. At a national level religion was once connected to the government and religion is used in other countries.