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Globalization began in the late-20th century with the mass-production and consumption of personal electronic consumer goods, culminating in the cell phones and laptops of today.

false

Local communities never are affected by globalization.

False

Local communities never resist globalization.

False

Which of the following is not one of the five "scapes" of globalization identified by anthropologist Arjun Appadurai?

Politiscape

Neoliberal policies in the developing world have led to which of the following?

Promotion and acceptance of the ideology of free-market capitalism and deregulation. Urbanization, as economies of scale push subsistence farmers off the land. Increasing dependence on rich countries and multinational corporations. Local markets and industries being required to open up to foreign investment and ownership Correct! All of these.

European and later American colonialism was driven by which of the following?

The quest to turn "primitive" people into "civilized" people. Correct! All of these. The quest for material wealth. The quest to save heathen souls by converting them to Christianity. The quest for territory.

Salsa dancing competitions around the world are a good example of global flows across all of the five "scapes" of globalization.

True

The adaptation of global ideas and goods into locally palatable forms is called __________.

glocalization

Coined by the late French anthropologist, Pierre Bourdieu, __________ refers to the dispositions, attitudes, and preferences that are the learned basis for personal "taste" and lifestyles.

habitus

According to your textbook, the privatization of water resources in Bolivia in the early 2000s, and the crisis it created, were the result of __________.

neoliberal policies and structural readjustment