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Banksy Mural  Removal in London - Considering Perspectives  (1)

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2025-2026 Introduction to Global Perspectives

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Students to work in groups of THREE to prepare and take part in a structured debate setting. The students should be organised into groups and take the role of someone who may have a cultural perspective on an issue. Issues could be listed below.

Homelessness

Gay Marriage

Euthanasia

Prostitution

Decriminalisation of drugs

Refugees

Abortion

Opening "For" argument:  4 minutes

Opening "Against" argument: 4 min

Rebuttal "For"  1 minute

Rebuttal "Against" 1 minute

Opposing question for each side: 1-2 minute per side

Closing statement:  "Against" 1 minute

Closing statement "For" 1 minute

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Answer the following questions on padlet.  Each answer should be about a paragraph.  You need to include the link to ONE supporting piece of evidence to support your perspective

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Answer the following questions on padlet.  Each answer should be about a paragraph.  You need to include the link to ONE supporting piece of evidence to support your perspective

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How does losing a language like Cantonese (China) or Welsh (UK) impact cultural identity?

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How does losing a language like Cantonese (China) or Welsh (UK) impact cultural identity?

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Compare how the Benin Bronzes and Parthenon Marbles were looted. Is repatriation always the right solution?

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Compare how the Benin Bronzes and Parthenon Marbles were looted. Is repatriation always the right solution?

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Playing the role of a tour operator, how would you balance profit with protecting Bali’s water temples?

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Playing the role of a tour operator, how would you balance profit with protecting Bali’s water temples?

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Personal Response Question - In 3-4 sentences, answer the following: “If you could change one thing about how refugees are treated, what would it be? Why?" Be sure to support your statement with sources/facts.

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Migration - Global Perspectives Introduction

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Question 1: Have you heard the word "expat" used in Hong Kong? Describe the context. How might the speaker’s choice of words influence attitudes toward foreigners?

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Question 1: Have you heard the word "expat" used in Hong Kong? Describe the context. How might the speaker’s choice of words influence attitudes toward foreigners?

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Question 2: Why do you think society often labels wealthy foreigners as "expats" and low-wage workers as "migrants"? What does this reveal about perceptions of class and race?

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Question 2: Why do you think society often labels wealthy foreigners as "expats" and low-wage workers as "migrants"? What does this reveal about perceptions of class and race?

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Question 3: The article mentions maids and construction workers are "expats too." Why do you think society resists calling them expats?

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Question 3: The article mentions maids and construction workers are "expats too." Why do you think society resists calling them expats?

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Question 4: How might the label "immigrant" vs. "expat" affect government policies (e.g., visa rules, housing access)?

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Question 4: How might the label "immigrant" vs. "expat" affect government policies (e.g., visa rules, housing access)?

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Question 5: Should media outlets like the BBC avoid using the word "expat" to promote fairness? Defend your view.

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Question 5: Should media outlets like the BBC avoid using the word "expat" to promote fairness? Defend your view.

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Question 6: How might AI or automation change the way we label foreign workers in the future?

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Question 6: How might AI or automation change the way we label foreign workers in the future?

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Reflection Question:In 3-4 sentences, answer the following: “Do you think that Foreign Domestic Helpers should have an easier pathway to Permanent Residency in places like Hong Kong and Singapore? Why or why not?" Be sure to support your statement with sources/facts.

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Reflection Question:In 3-4 sentences, answer the following: “Do you think that Foreign Domestic Helpers should have an easier pathway to Permanent Residency in places like Hong Kong and Singapore? Why or why not?" Be sure to support your statement with sources/facts.

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Editor's note (30 January 2016): The top of this story has been updated to reflect news that occurred in the days since it was first published.
What is an expatriate, exactly? And when is an expat an immigrant - or not?

The word expat is loaded. It carries many connotations, preconceptions and assumptions about class, education and privilege - just as the terms foreign worker, immigrant and migrant call to mind a different set of assumptions. It's front and centre currently as US President Donald Trump signed an executive order abruptly banning immigrants, short and long-term visa-holders and, for a time, green card-holders, from certain countries from entering the US.

But what makes one person an expat, and another a foreign worker or migrant? Often the former is used to describe educated, rich professionals working abroad, while those in less privileged positions - for example, a maid in the Gulf states or a construction worker in Asia - are deemed foreign workers or migrant workers. The classification matters, because such language can in some cases be used as a political tool or to dehumanise - as the debate around the word "migrant" suggests.

Fears surrounding job security, concerns over immigration and nationalism inspire discussion across the globe about who falls into which category. But a key part of this dialogue is how exactly we define different people who cross borders to work.

In the last decade or so, many people, especially those of us from emerging economies such as Nigeria and Peru, have increasingly identified as not just citizens of one nation, but also as part of a global citizenry, a BBC World Service poll found. But in richer nations, the survey found, the trend among industrialised nations "seems to be heading in the opposite direction." At times it seems globalisation is under siege from across the political spectrum.

In the UK and the US, immigration and the movement of workers across borders were two of the defining political issues of 2016. In the UK, it was a key message for the Leave campaign in the EU referendum, which resulted in a public vote for a so-called Brexit. In the US, jobs and immigration were at the forefront of incoming President Donald Trump's successful campaign.

"It's not about the colour of your skin, and it's not about the salary that you earn," says McNulty, an expat researcher and senior lecturer at the school of human development and social science at SIM University in Singapore.

"Are maids expats? Yes they are. Are construction workers in Singapore that you see on the building sites expats? Yes they are," she says.

A business expatriate, she says, is a legally working individual who resides temporarily in a country of which they are not a citizen, in order to accomplish a career-related goal (no matter the pay or skill level) - someone who has relocated abroad either by an organisation, by themselves or been directly employed by their host country.

But in practice that's not really how most of us define expat, both in academia and among the general population, says Brewster, a professor of international resource management at Henley Business School in the UK.

"Both groups of people, when they talk about expatriates, are talking about rich, educated, developed elites," he says. "Others are just migrants or immigrants. But logically that's not the correct way to look at these things.

"There's probably more of these 'others' than there are of these highly expensive people but no-one thinks about them, no-one studies them. If they've studied them at all they've called them migrants."
We've got migrants all wrong
That's all wrong, Brewster says. Migrants, by definition "are people who intend to go and live in a county for a long time and they're not allowed to. They have to go home when they've completed their assignment," he says.

Whether someone is an expat or not doesn't depend on origin - it's about the motivations behind their decision to move abroad, says Malte Zeeck, founder and co-CEO of InterNations, the world's largest expat network, with 2.5 million members in 390 cities around the world.

"Just calling everyone who lives abroad an expat won't really change some political and socioeconomic realities," he adds. While there are many types of expat with many different reasons to move abroad, "for people that we today call expats... living abroad is rather a lifestyle choice than borne out of economic necessity or dire circumstances in their home country such as oppression or persecution," Zeeck says. "That's what differentiates them from refugees or economic migrants and not their income or origin."

Defining an expat is something Zeeck dealt with from Day One of InterNations.

"Immigrants are usually defined as people who have come to a different country in order to live there permanently, whereas expats move abroad for a limited amount of time or have not yet decided upon the length of their stay," he says.

In its early days, InterNations set out to reach assignees - often in management positions - sent abroad by their employers. But Zeeck quickly realised this traditional definition was too strict and arcane a way to consider this group.

As more of us live out the globalisation of world populations, as our travel behaviours change and our working habits shift to a more free-flowing, borderless and sometimes nomadic style, these definitions have had to be reviewed and revised.

"I use expat in a much broader sense of the word, describing rather someone who decides to live abroad for a specified amount of time without any restrictions on origin or residence," Zeeck says. That includes an awful lot more people than just those sent on assignment with a multinational.

Whatever the moniker or motivation, most of us who move overseas to work do so in hopes of bettering our lives - whether the draw is money or experience, says Zeeck.

"We're in the position to help shape this word - expat," he says, "How we define it definitely helps with that."

To comment on this story or anything else you have seen on BBC Capital, please head over to our Facebook page or tell us how you define an expat here or message us on Twitter.

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The difference between an expat and an immigrant? Semantics

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Editor's note (30 January 2016): The top of this story has been updated to reflect news that occurred in the days since it was first published. What is an expatriate, exactly? And when is an expat an immigrant - or not? The word expat is loaded.

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Empathy Reflection:  If you moved abroad for work, would you prefer to be called an expat, immigrant, or something else? Why? Explain in at least 1 paragraph

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A Banksy Mural Has Been Destroyed. It’s Not the First Time

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Many Banksy works have been removed, sold, stolen or destroyed over the years. Here’s a look at some of the art we lost.

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Banksy ‘judge’ mural scrubbed from Royal Courts of Justice wall

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The artwork of a judge hitting a protester with a gavel has been removed from the listed building.

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Banksy mural of judge beating protester is scrubbed from London court | CNN

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The street artist’s latest mural, depicting a judge beating a protester, has been scrubbed off a London courthouse wall.

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Team 1: For: Jack, Carson,Calvin Against: Ethan, Reagan(Cannibis should be decriminalized)

Team 2: Tze Hei, Nicole, Simoni, Rayna, Rennee, Tessa (Homework should be significantly reduced or eliminated to lower academic stress among high school students.)

Team 3: For: Mark, Peter, William. Against: Hourus, Lok Ting, Nathan, (Gay Marriage should be legalized)

Team 4: For: Chloe, Doris, Annete, Leo, Against: Hui Yeung (Homosexual couples should be able to adopt children)

Team 5: Joanna, Cindy, Iris, Yoyo, Candace, Mallory (Euthanasia should be legalised in Hong Kong)

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Component 2 Individual Report (IR) Introduction Slideshow

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