Glossary
A classroom simulation where teams with unequal resources compete to become the wealthiest country by producing commodities for a World Bank.
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World Game
A classroom simulation where teams with unequal resources compete to become the wealthiest country by producing commodities for a World Bank.
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He claims the Great Depression and frontier closure force America to conquer and scale the game to the world after World War II.
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Jiang frames Chinese students' pursuit of English, U.S. dollars, and Western immigration as a historically constructed game rather than natural self-interest.
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The World Game models unequal resource distribution, trade, and the World Bank as a simplified version of global competition.
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In the World Game, the team with everything initially wins, but the team with nothing often becomes most creative because scarcity forces energy, openness, cohesion, and resourcefulness.
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Resources are not necessary for success because poor players can cheat, steal, beg, trade, work for free, and become creative under pressure.
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"...the idea of the Bretton Woods Conference is to establish the world game, okay? Before, America's game was limited to America, but now America..."
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"today i want to examine why you chinese students behave the way you do okay so believe it or not but the way that..."
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"in life is to immigrate to a western country uh specifically united states right you all want to go united states for college get..."
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"respect and status in china okay but instead you learn english um u.s dollars doesn't make any sense what you really want is status..."
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"be common people in the united states or britain or canada so it's a really weird game and so the question we want i..."
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"...in high school in Canada, we played a game called the World Game. And in this game, it's very simple. Okay, you're put into..."
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"You need scissors, you need rulers, you need paper, you need glue, okay? But different countries will have different resources. So the United States..."
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"...steal, okay? They're forced to be resourceful and creative. Okay? The world game. And that's how the world works, guys. Just because you have..."
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"What matters is how energetic your people are, how open they are, how resourceful they are. That's what matters, okay? And often, they are..."
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"I keep on telling you guys, you don't need resources. You can cheat. You can steal. You can beg. Alright? Okay? Does that make..."
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"Okay? Like, if you just go back to the World Game, whichever team starts off with the least resources are often the most creative..."
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"...resolve all three of these limitations to click to create a world game in which we all play today okay so Britain basically birth..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on America as the world game: Britain invents the imperial board but cannot scale it, the dollar turns wealth into an idea, the Constitution keeps the game above...
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Chinese students are chasing English, dollars, and Western immigration because they are already inside a British-made world game.
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's World Game lecture: empires do not usually come from the obvious rich center.
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