Traditions and Encounters Quiz Questions Chp 38, Final

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Chp 38: What are good examples of the Americanization of global culture?

Pizza Hut, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Pepsi

Chp 38: One objective that the EU and ASEAN share in common is a commitment to

Removing barriers to trade between member states

Chp 38: All of the following have contributed to the dramatic growth of the Chinese economy since the late 1970s

The opening of China to foreign investment and foreign technology, the opening of Chinese domestic markets to foreign imports, and vast reserves of cheap labor

Chp 38: Global warming refers to

The rise in global temperatures caused by atmospheric pollution such as the emissions of cars and factories

Chp 38: What are characteristics of modern global corporations?

They seek out the cheapest labor and raw materials, they prefer locations with few, if any, environmental laws, they favor unrestricted free trade, and they scatter operations all over the world

Chp 38: In what year did the two Germanys reunite to form a united nation?

1990

Chp 38: As a result of China's one-child policy,

A significant number of girl babies are missing

Chp 38: Between 2005 and 2050, population is expected to continue growing in all of the following world regions

Africa, Asia, North America, and Latin America

Chp 38: What are good examples of an NGO?

Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch, and the Red Cross

Chp 38: In the 1970s, OPEC demonstrated that

An alliance in control of a valuable resource could exert control over the global economy

Chp 38: Popular unrest forced Todor Zhivkov, eastern Europe's longest surviving communist dictator, to resign in 1989 as leader of what country?

Bulgaria

Chp 38: What are true statements about modern global consumption?

Consumption becomes a means of self-expression as well as a source of personal identity, modern consumption is shaped by wants and desires rather than by needs or necessities, where products scarcely vary from one another, consumers are encouraged to make purchases based on brand names, and global consumerism threatens local and indigenous cultures

Chp 38: The purpose of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was to

Eliminate barriers to free trade

Chp 38: Some significant results of the electronic information age are that

English has become the primary language of global communications, social and political isolation has been vastly reduced, politically repressive regimes such as that of China are trying to control the Internet, and the gulf between the technological haves and have-nots has widened

Chp 38: The goals of feminism in industrialized nations after WWII include all the following

Equal pay for equal work, access to birth control and abortion, and legal equality

Chp 38: List Asia's "little tigers"

Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan

Chp 38: In spite of cultural prejudices against women in Asia, women have emerged as political leaders in all of the following countries

India, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

Chp 38: What are factors in the Japanese postwar "economic miracle"?

Massive aid from the United States enabled Japan to rebuild quickly after the war, Japanese products were not barred from the U.S. market, restrictions imposed on Japanese defense spending enabled them to channel much of their GNP into economic development, and cheap labor costs and a compliant workforce made Japanese industry very competitive

Chp 38: What is true of modern terrorism?

Modern terrorists routinely employ violence against civilian targets, modern terrorists use sophisticated modern weapons and technologies, and modern terrorists are not confined to any one state and operate effectively across borders

Chp 38: The perceived grievances of al-Qaeda against the United States and its allies include all of the following

U.S. support of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, the presence of American troops in the holy land of Saudi Arabia, and U.S. sanctions against Iraq.


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