Deck 11: Comparative Cultures

Question 1

Which culture most emphasizes individualism?

A) Arab
B) Japanese
C) Chinese
D) American
E) Russian

Answer 1

American

Question 2

Respect for the elderly is more ingrained into American culture than Chinese culture.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

In which cultural context would the experience of "losing face" be interpreted as most serious?

A) Japan and China
B) Morocco and Russia
C) Arara and Amish
D) Baka and Arara
E) United States and Mexico

Answer 3

Japan and China

Question 4

Which country is relatively more homogeneous?

A) Canada
B) United States
C) Japan
D) Brazil
E) Russia

Question 5

FUNAI refers to the organization which:

A) investigates the annual Human Development Index
B) made first contact with the Baka people
C) arbitrated Jimmy Carter's involvement in Sudan
D) decides Brazil's Indian policy
E) negotiated the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Question 6

What do we call "a rigidity in the acceptance of the culturally alike and in the rejection of the culturally unalike"?

A) cultural relativism
B) cultural positivism
C) scientism
D) humanism
E) ethnocentrism

Question 7

Who was NOT a Russian reform leader?

A) Peter the Great
B) Catherine the Great
C) Alexander II
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
E) Nicholas II

Question 8

Which country is most seriously disadvantaged by the percentage of its land taken up by mountains?

A) Japan
B) China
C) United States
D) Russia
E) Morocco

Question 9

Extended families, a close relationship with nature, story telling, widespread use of music, and informal socialization are all characteristic of:

A) the Baka culture
B) Japanese culture
C) Russian culture
D) American culture
E) Brazilian culture

Question 10

Russia ranks ahead of China on the Human Development Index.

Question 11

The Japanese and Chinese educational systems achieve remarkably similar results when measured by almost any objective standard.

Question 12

Being described as a Eurasian country best fits:

A) Russia
B) Mongolia
C) Morocco
D) Byelorussia
E) China

Question 13

For which culture does a myth of atonement serve as a powerful influence on its attitudes and values:

A) Pygmy
B) Baka
C) Arara
D) Amish
E) Tuvan

Question 14

More than half of all executions in world occur annually in:

A) southern hemisphere countries outside of Asia
B) northern hemisphere countries
C) North Korea
D) Iran
E) China

Question 15

Not liking to be touched by strangers is most deeply ingrained in which culture?

A) Chinese
B) Canadian
C) Russian
D) American
E) Brazilian

Question 16

The small society once referred to as the Kalahari Bushmen is now called the:

A) Khasi Bushmen
B) Pukapuka
C) Taramiut Inuit
D) Nayar
E) !Kung

Question 17

When generalizing about different cultures, it is more difficult to accurately describe the essence of heterogeneous cultures than homogeneous ones.

Question 18

Which is NOT an example of a sub-culture:

A) Baka people
B) Arara people
C) Amish
D) Polish-Americans
E) Germans

Question 19

Sociologists use the term ethnocentrism in order to refer to:

A) transmitting culture from one generation to the next
B) the belief that one's culture is superior to other cultures
C) a common psychological identity based on race
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 20

Brazilian culture is more homogeneous than Chinese culture.

Question 21

Economic vibrancy as measured by Gross National Product is about equal in Hong Kong and in the People's Republic of China.

Question 22

It is possible for there to be one broad Chinese nation but two different Chinese states.

Question 23

The Russian Slavophiles remain extremely suspicious of the Russian Orthodox Church as a tool of the government.

Question 24

Confucius was an ancient Chinese philosopher who advocated strong family ties, social stability, and a system of meritocracy for filling leadership positions.

Question 25

In no other culture examined in chapter eleven has the quality of public health care deteriorated as rapidly during the last ten years as in China.

Question 26

Japan, the Arara, and the Baka all possess a stronger sense of group identity than an individualistic orientation.

Question 27

Economic growth in China was impressive during the reign of Mao Zedong.

Question 28

The time orientation of U.S. culture focuses largely on the future, whereas the time orientation of both China is more toward the past.

Question 29

Anthropologist Dorothy Lee warns against blindly accepting the myth that humans are always better off in modern cultures than in traditional ones.

Question 30

The term caudillismo in Latin American cultures refers to the tendency for national leaders to consolidate unbridled political power.