Deck 6: Identity Amid Human Diversity

Question 1

What makes the Human Development Index HDI) unusual as a measure of national development?

A) it measures gross national product
B) it measures gross national product per capita
C) it measures quality of life
D) it measures quality of corporate profit

Answer 1

it measures quality of life

Question 2

Human social identity is based on subjective as well as objective factors; in other words, concrete and measurable variables tell only part of the story of social identity.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Most of the NICs are found in the Latin American world region.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Newly-industrialized countries NICs) like Taiwan and South Korea have successfully emulated Japan as a model of an export-driven managed economy.

Question 5

Which world region has demonstrated the greatest economic growth in recent decades?

A) Middle East
B) Latin America
C) Sub-Saharan Africa
D) former Soviet Union
E) East Asia

Question 6

Which large country is most culturally homogeneous?

A) Japan
B) United States
C) India
D) Russia
E) Malaysia

Question 7

The MDCs see the north-south global chasm as more urgently in need of drastic solutions than do their counterparts known as the LDCs.

Question 8

A century ago _____systematically developed the argument that how we view ourselves derives mostly from our impressions of how others see us.

A) John Watson
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Charles Horton Cooley
D) Karl Marx
E) Emile Durkheim

Question 9

A love of spontaneous pleasurable experiences coupled with relatively little concern for planning the future best fits the national identity of:

A) Brazil
B) United Kingdom
C) United States
D) Japan
E) China

Question 10

The process of colonization by European powers weakened all colonized areas economically, socially, psychologically, and politically. However, in what region was the number of indigenous native) peoples most seriously decimated?

A) Latin America
B) Pacific Rim
C) Asia
D) Middle East
E) Africa

Question 11

The large increase in the number of separate countries in the world since World War II has been influenced most seriously by:

A) decolonization
B) human consciousness
C) ethnic identity
D) racial identity
E) emergence of the European Union

Question 12

Humans have it, but apparently chimpanzees and orangutans do not, and it is?

A) communication
B) RNA
C) DNA
D) consciousness
E) competition

Question 13

The common challenge facing most Sub-Saharan African countries consists mostly of:

A) computerization
B) multiculturalism
C) seeking political independence
D) nation-building
E) colonialism

Question 14

Russia places about where among countries ranked according to the Human Development Index?

A) in the top 5%
B) in the top 10%
C) in the top 30%
D) in the top 50%
E) in the top 90%

Question 15

When contrasted with that of the United States, both Canadian and Brazilian national identities possess something of a sense of self-deprecation.

Question 16

The absence of a dramatic revolutionary event accompanying its birth has impeded the emergence of a strong sense of clear national identity in:

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

Question 17

Some Serbian leaders were tried in the 1990s for crimes against humanity in the first International Criminal Tribunal since 1947.

Question 18

Rich and poor countries in the Middle East are determined more by the location of oil deposits than any other single factor.

Question 19

Which three mega-cultures does Samuel Huntington describe as most likely to come into conflict with one another?

A) Japanese, American, Western
B) Confucian, Japanese, Islamic
C) Western, Islamic, Confucian
D) Islamic, Hindu, Slavic
E) Slavic, Hindu, Latin American

Question 20

The major Slavic peoples of the former Soviet Union included:

A) Russians, Ukrainians, Byelorussians
B) Russians, Latvians, Estonians
C) Russians, Armenians, Georgians
D) Russians, Poles, Hungarians

Question 21

The term ethologist is applied to humanistic social scientists who rely on a religiously-based view of humans as unique beings spiritually superior to other species existing on the face of the earth.

Question 22

The Gini Index is a quantitative means of measuring the degree of political democracy in different countries.

Question 23

During Mikhail Gorbachev's presidency, the Japanese government offered Russia an extensive economic incentive package, including $26 million in cash and major purchases of Russia's vast Siberian natural resources, in exchange for the Kurile Islands-but the Russians turned down the offer.