1. The Tropics and Tropical Culture (ANT 4930) Dr. Michael Heckenberger www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mheck (look under courses/syllabi for syllabus and other materials) The Tropics as Place, and as Place in the Western Imagination www.clas.ufl.edu/users/mheck

6. UN Human Development Index (HDI)

7. The Human Development Index (HDI) is an index combining normalized measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide. It is claimed as a standard means of measuring human development — a concept that, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), refers to the process of widening the options of persons, giving them greater opportunities for education, health care, income, employment, etc. The basic use of HDI is to rank countries by level of "human development", which usually also implies to determine whether a country is a developed, developing, or underdeveloped country.

8. Green = high (.75-.95 and over) Orange-yellow = middle (.50 -.749) Red = low (.35 and below -.499)

9. High income = bluemiddle-high = green Middle-low = purplelow = red

10. Globalization or Cultural Imperialism (Neo-Colonialism)