*This is a great idea, except that you might want to hand out cards to certain people telling them they need to do this, because after working on this project all semester together (I know my group) would not be willing to split up easily! But I really like this idea.
mud212 wrote:
> While in the World Sim (Fall 2006), the main objective seemed to be decolonization. After that, we seemed to reach Marx's "end of history." Obviously, this was not the case in reality. In order to make the World Sim more realistic (and applicable to today's post-colonial problems), I suggest adding rules to allow colonizers to import and export people as well as goods. This would allow for the creation of multi-national states after decolonization, and even create the possibility of internal conflict (by far the most common form of conflict in the world today). Further, adding rules to allow for independence movements will realistically simulate the challenges of post-colonial governance. So far, the World Sim has been a system-level simulation. By expanding its scope to include regional-level situations, it will better simulate current global conditions.
> mwesch wrote:
> > Hi class,
> > Post your world simulation ideas here. Read Wallerstein, Lappe & Collins, and the first 2 pages of Wolf. Using the ideas you gather there, re-write the rules and post them here.