Deck 2: Global Interdependence

Question 1

Using "tribal" to describe ethnic conflict in Africa is an example of

A) globalization.
B) stereotyping.
C) Scandinavian propaganda.
D) global communication.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The 1946 Gold Coast Constitution

A) gave Ghana a level of political participation not found anywhere else in colonial Africa.
B) was an organization of wealthy Chicagoans dedicated to saving the environment.
C) ended World War II.
D) None of the above

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Approximately how much money does the United States have in shares and other assets located outside its boundaries?

A) 100 million dollars
B) 1 billion dollars
C) 25 billion dollars
D) 2.5 trillion dollars

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which country exported the most capital in 2005?

A) United States
B) China
C) Japan
D) Germany

Question 5

Which country imported the most capital in 2005?

A) United States
B) Spain
C) China
D) United Kingdom

Question 6

Which region of the world had the most carbon dioxide emissions in 2002?

A) Asia and the Pacific
B) North America
C) Latin America and the Caribbean
D) Europe

Question 7

What is the main language in Ghana?

A) English
B) French
C) Italian
D) Portuguese

Question 8

A poor person in a developing country becomes frustrated and then violent because he knows about the luxurious lifestyle of Americans and cannot attain it. This is an example of what social scientists call

A) relative deprivation.
B) migration of dreams.
C) global interdependence.
D) cultural colonialism.

Question 9

What event ended the largest challenge to globalization?

A) World War I
B) World War II
C) Creation of the United Nations
D) Fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 10

Ghana's major export is

A) oil.
B) cotton.
C) cocoa.
D) phosphate.

Question 11

What everyday item is an excellent example of the global marketplace?

A) A dress
B) Corn
C) Ethanol
D) Beef

Question 12

The United States imports

A) beef.
B) coffee.
C) bananas.
D) All of the above

Question 13

Global interdependence has highlighted

A) disparities that promote terrorism.
B) poverty.
C) injustice.
D) All of the above

Question 14

Efforts to control the flow of information across borders

A) have been highly successful.
B) have failed.
C) are mainly the concern of France.
D) are opposed by the United Nations.

Question 15

Which two interest groups combined efforts in Houston to oppose the construction of a new airport?

A) The Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Foundation
B) The National Rifle Association and the World Wildlife Foundation
C) The National Rifle Association and the Sierra Club
D) The Sierra Club and Greenpeace

Question 16

What does UNEP promote?

A) Environmental protection
B) Human rights
C) Fair trade
D) Children's rights

Question 17

American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global; what term have experts given this phenomenon?

A) Cultural migration
B) Migration of dreams
C) Relative deprivation
D) Cultural colonialism

Question 18

Iqbal Masih fought against child labor in which country?

A) Bangladesh
B) India
C) Pakistan
D) China

Question 19

Which political scholar coined the term "McWorld"?

A) Benjamin Barber
B) Manfred Steger
C) Richard Payne
D) Jamal Nassar

Question 20

Which U.S. president declared that the fall of the Soviet Union was the "dawn of a new world order"?

A) Ronald Reagan
B) George H. W. Bush
C) Bill Clinton
D) George W. Bush

Question 21

A family that built its own home, raised chickens, planted and harvested vegetables, and taught its children is an example of what?

A) Globalization
B) Communal living
C) Subsistence living
D) Interdependence

Question 22

Which American automotive company is cited by the authors as NOT truly producing "American-made" cars?

A) Ford
B) General Motors
C) Chevy
D) Dodge

Question 23

Almost zero percent of U.S. exports are in services.

Question 24

Multinational Corporations (MNCs) are at the forefront of international investing.

Question 25

Actions of one state do NOT have ramifications beyond its borders.

Question 26

Due to global interdependence, a technological breakthrough in the United States affects not only Americans but all people of the world.

Question 27

So far, the nation/state system has succeeded in solving many contemporary global problems.

Question 28

The two countries that export the most capital per year are both Asian countries.

Question 29

Protestors at the 2009 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle were targeting environmental issues.

Question 30

Chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, are used as refrigerants, and there is no evidence that they harm the environment in any way.

Question 31

The New World Information and Communication Order is a United Nations resolution that advocates respect for people's cultural identity.

Question 32

Efforts to control the flow of information across borders have failed.

Question 33

American culture has gone global.

Question 34

Globalism is the integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.

Question 35

Using child labor, Pakistan is a major producer of "oriental" rugs that Americans purchase.

Question 36

When George W. Bush first used the phrase "War on Terrorism" it was met with a positive global reaction.

Question 37

Kwame Nkrumah was instrumental in Haiti's independence.

Question 38

______________ means independent living where people produce a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.

Question 39

Americans own more than $2.5 trillion in shares and other assets located outside the United States; this is an example of _________________.

Question 40

The Arab Oil Embargo of the 1970s highlighted oil as a tool of ____________.

Question 41

The depletion of the _____________ is a global issue, and the United Nations has asked countries to reduce the emission of CFCs as a result.

Question 42

Earth Summits in 1992 and 2009 addressed the problem of ____________.

Question 43

The theory of _______________ deals with the gap between expectations and achievement as a significant contributor to violence.

Question 44

Before the 1990s, globalization was kept in check by the ______________.

Question 45

Though environmental issues may sound local, in fact they are usually _____________.

Question 46

____________ was a child that spoke on behalf of bonded children in Pakistan; he was killed at the age of thirteen.

Question 47

Cindy Marie Beaudoin was killed in Kuwait after President George H.W. Bush had declared a ____________.

Question 48

______________ makes or assembles its cars in about thirty-four countries, including Finland, Kenya, and Brazil.

Question 49

A small child's belief that milk comes from _________ rather than from cows is an example of economic interdependence.

Question 50

___________________ have international investments and subsidiaries all over the world.

Question 51

The term ______________, which refers to globalization as an ideology of market economy, was used by Manfred Steger.

Question 52

The ______________ is a Pakistani human rights group that protests child labor and informs children of the laws forbidding the selling of children into bondage.

Question 53

What is the meaning of following term:
-Subsistence living

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 54

What is the meaning of following term:
-Global interdependence

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 55

What is the meaning of following term:
-Economic interdependence

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 56

What is the meaning of following term:
-Multinational corporations

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 57

What is the meaning of following term:
-Global monetary relations

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 58

What is the meaning of following term:
-Earth Summit

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 59

What is the meaning of following term:
-Cultural colonialism

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 60

What is the meaning of following term:
-New World Information and Communication Order

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 61

What is the meaning of following term:
-Migration of dreams

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 62

What is the meaning of following term:
-Relative deprivation

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 63

What is the meaning of following term:
-Globalization

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 64

What is the meaning of following term:
-McWorld

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 65

What is the meaning of following term:
-Bonded Labor Liberation Front

A) American culture, with its emphasis on consumption, market economy, and individualism, has gone global.
B) States engaging in international trade in goods, services, and financial resources.
C) The impact on the poor of television programs emanating from wealthier societies.
D) The integration of markets, politics, values, and environmental concerns across borders.
E) Individuals serving specialized functions with others producing their food or other needs for survival.
F) A resolution adopted at the UNESCO General Conference that aimed at regulating the flow of information.
G) Trade in money and currency exchange.
H) Independent living where people produced a sufficient amount of food for their survival as an independent family unit.
I) A Pakistani human rights group that helped free children from bonded labor.
J) Term used to sum up the argument that American popular culture and consumerism is taking over the world.
K) When an individual has stock in foreign companies or when foreigners have stock in U.S. companies.
L) The gap between what a person gets and what that person thinks he/she should get.
M) Addressed the issue of global warming.

Question 66

List environmental ramifications of global interdependence (4).

Question 67

List examples of the migration of dreams.*

Question 68

What are the characteristics of subsistence living? Is subsistence living possible in today's world? Why or why not?

Question 69

How does global economic interdependence lead to other types of interdependence? Give examples.

Question 70

Has everyone benefited from globalization? Give examples to support your answer.

Question 71

Discuss how television and other media play a role in the migration of dreams and relative deprivation. Be sure to include specific examples.

Question 72

Explain the concept of cultural interdependence and relate it to your life in the United States.