Deck 9: Globalization

Question 1

In "Village Walks," Guneratne and Bjork report that an angry Tharu household head once

A) struck a rude tourist with a stick.
B) berated a tourist for smoking marijuana in his compound.
C) threatened a tour guide with a stick for invading his kitchen.
D) blocked a tourist-laden ox cart from entering Pipariya.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

People who flee their country of origin because they share a well-founded fear of persecution are called

A) tourists.
B) immigrants.
C) stateless persons.
D) refugees.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

According to Guneratne and Bjork in "Village Walks," Tharu villagers from Pipariya referred to tourists as

A) pests.
B) customers (of goods the villagers had for sale).
C) arrogant.
D) guests.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The situation where more than one different culture is part of a larger social aggregate is called

A) multicultural.
B) cultural diffusion.
C) cultural hybridization.
D) globalization.

Question 5

According to Guneratne and Bjork in "Village Walks," the Tharu village of Pipariya is located adjacent to

A) the Chitwan national forest.
B) the Himalayan mountains.
C) the Tarai National Forest.
D) the border with India.

Question 6

In "How Sushi Went Global," Bestor thinks the reason that the Japanese had to turn to the world market for bluefin tuna was that

A) they had completely fished out bluefin tuna in the Pacific.
B) an international agreement prevented fishing within 200 miles of other countries' shores.
C) the Japanese discovered that Atlantic tuna were much better than their own Pacific tuna.
D) sushi became more popular in Japan in the 1960s, and demand outran supply.

Question 7

In "Village Walks," Guneratne and Bjork indicate which Nepalese ethnic group(s) the tour guides are most likely to come from:

A) Brahmin and Chhetri
B) Bhangi and Brahmin
C) Sherpas
D) Dolpa

Question 8

In "How Sushi Went Global," why does Bestor refer to bluefin tuna as "stateless fish-"

A) Bluefin tuna swim so fast and migrate so far, they may not remain in any nation's waters for long.
B) ICCAT (the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas), made up of 28 countries, has declared that the fish should receive "stateless" legal status.
C) No one country has been willing to take responsibility for conserving bluefin tuna.
D) Bluefin tuna form part of sushi in every country of the world.

Question 9

The economic incorporation of different parts of the world into a system based on capitalism,not politics,defines

A) world system.
B) cultural diffusion.
C) cultural hybridization.
D) multiculturalism.

Question 10

In "Village Walks," Guneratne and Bjork note that tour companies have characterized the Tharu as

A) successful forest horticulturalists.
B) primitive forest aboriginals.
C) the remnants of a lost Nepalese tribe.
D) refugees from central Nepal.

Question 11

According to Bestor in "How Sushi Went Global,"

A) globalization has meant homogenization. Sushi is no longer viewed as a Japanese entity worldwide.
B) in waters off of Seabrook, New Hampshire, bluefin tuna are trapped, fed by hand, then processed to meet the demand for sushi in Japan and around the world.
C) tuna's popularity in Japan has declined significantly in the past two decades.
D) the first appearance of tuna in Japanese literature was in the eighth-century collection of imperial court poetry called Man'yoshu.

Question 12

According to Guneratne and Bjork in "Village Walks," the authors

A) ended up giving lectures about Tharu culture to tourists.
B) (especially Bjork) were themselves a tourist attraction.
C) tried to change the way the Tharu were characterized by tour guides and tourist companies.
D) helped Tharu villagers avoid tourists whenever possible.

Question 13

In "How Sushi Went Global," Bestor observes that Tsukiji,Tokyo's wholesale seafood market,

A) auctions off only Japanese-caught bluefin tuna.
B) handles just 13 percent of the tonnage that New York City's Fulton Fish Market sells each year.
C) is sent daily information about tuna conditions in such fishing grounds as Montauk, Cape Cod, and Cartagena by fishermen in return for information about prices.
D) is one of three bluefin tuna auctions; the other two are in Madrid, Spain and Boston, Massachusetts.

Question 14

According to Bestor in "How Sushi Went Global," Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABT)

A) is a nonmigratory species that lives in the Mediterranean Sea; ABT normally weigh roughly 6 to 10 pounds.
B) is a migratory species of fish that is found in the Pacific Ocean and most often caught with fighting tackle.
C) has been so overfished in the wild that it is now only available from seafood farms in Asia.
D) is highly migratory; can be found from the equator to Newfoundland and from Turkey to the Gulf of Mexico; and can weigh over 1,000 pounds.

Question 15

When Arjun Guneratne returned to Pipariya in 2009 he found that

A) some Tharu from the village were working overseas and sending money home.
B) the Tharu had built a small museum the depicted life as it had been many years ago but tourists never visited it.
C) tourists had largely stopped visiting the village, because its residents had now built brick houses and resembled their Brahmin neighbors.
D) globalization had failed to touch the Tharu.

Question 16

In "How Sushi Went Global," Bestor notes that Japan's control over sushi as a Japanese cultural entity

A) has diminished as it has become more widely available around the world, from baseball stadiums to fine dining establishments in the United States, and from apartments in Madrid to Buenos Aires.
B) has weakened, as many non-Japanese sushi bars that identify with other ethnicities have opened in metropolitan areas outside of Japan.
C) is apparent in the use of Japanese buyers and "tuna techs" to instruct New England fishermen on the proper techniques to catch, handle, and pack tuna for export.
D) has diminshed; the number of U.S. visas granted to Japanese sushi chefs, tuna buyers, and other workers in the global sushi business has dropped to under 200 a year.

Question 17

The process that promotes economic,political,and other cultural connections among people living all over the world is called

A) cultural diffusion.
B) world systemization.
C) globalization.
D) cultural hybridization.

Question 18

The process by which a cultural custom,item,or concept is modified to fit the cultural context of a society that borrows it is called

A) globalization.
B) tourism.
C) transnationalism.
D) cultural hybridization.

Question 19

According to Guneratne and Bjork in "Village Walks," Tharu villagers preferred tourists who

A) photographed their houses and children.
B) ignored their tour guides.
C) asked them the most questions.
D) arrived in the village by themselves rather than in a tour group.

Question 20

The passage of a cultural idea,culturally defined behavior,or culturally produced artifact from one society to another through borrowing is called

A) cultural diffusion.
B) multiculturalism.
C) cultural hybridization.
D) globalization.

Question 21

In "Nuer Refugees in America," Shandy defines transnationalism as

A) the nationalistic fervor of one people that causes them to go to war with another.
B) the shifting of national loyalties from one nation state to another.
C) another word for global markets.
D) the cross-cutting ties that span the borders of nation-states.

Question 22

According to Shandy in "Nuer Refugees in America," the UN classifies refugees as people who have

A) left their home country but are willing to return.
B) left their home country to seek economic prosperity elsewhere.
C) left their home country because they fear persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a social group.
D) left their homes but are still in their home country.

Question 23

Which one of the following is a characteristic of Third World women who migrate for work,as reported by Ehrenreich and Hochschild in "Global Women in the New Economy"-

A) Most are under 20 years of age.
B) Many are better educated than other women from their home country.
C) Most are single without children.
D) Most migrate to escape abusive husbands or other family members.

Question 24

According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild in "Global Women in the New Economy," African women are most likely to migrate to ____________ for work as domestics and nannies.

A) the Far East
B) the United States
C) Europe
D) Southeast Asia

Question 25

According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild in "Global Women in the New Economy," a Sri Lankan woman named Josephine Perera has

A) worked away from her children for 10 years in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Greece.
B) takes frequent visits back to Sri Lanka to visit her children.
C) is unable to financially support her three children who still live in Sri Lanka.
D) has been unable to find domestic work outside of her country.

Question 26

According to Ehrenreich and Hochschild in their article "Global Women in the New Economy," women who migrate for work in other countries are often

A) better educated than most women in their home countries.
B) disappointed by the small amount of money they can make abroad.
C) discouraged by their home governments to seek work abroad.
D) shunned by their community for leaving their children in the care of other people.

Question 27

According to Shandy in "Nuer Refugees in America," the Nuer of South Sudan were first studied by

A) Sir E. E. Evans-Pritchard.
B) Sir Thok Ding.
C) Robert Gardner.
D) Sharon Hutchinson.

Question 28

In "Global Women in the New Economy,"Ehrenreich and Hochschild report that one of the greatest problems faced by women who migrate from Third World countries for work in the First World is

A) finding enough money to travel to jobs outside their home country.
B) lack of sufficient education to hold jobs in the First World.
C) resentment of the kinds of jobs they are forced to take in the First World.
D) long separation from their children and family members.

Question 29

Which of the following factors encourages Third World women to migrate to the First World for work,according to Ehrenreich and Hochschild's article "Global Women in the New Economy"-

A) the amount of money they can make and send home
B) the possibility of achieving citizenship in the host country
C) the potential for improved health care
D) the possibility of eventually moving their families to the host country.

Question 30

In "Nuer Refugees in America," Shandy observes that the Nuer are most often first aided in their quest to be resettled in the United States by

A) relatives.
B) UN officials.
C) voluntary organizations (volags).
D) U.S. immigration officials.

Question 31

In "Nuer Refugees in America," Shandy notes that the U.S.immigration service has settled the Nuer in about 30 different states because

A) they could not find a single location for them all.
B) they feel refugees adapt better if they are scattered in small groups around the country.
C) they hoped to prevent the Nuer immigrants from finding each other and building communities here in the United States.
D) their safety depends on hiding them among American families so that their political enemies cannot find them.

Question 32

According to Shandy in "Nuer Refugees in America," Nuer boys go through a painful initiation ceremony called the

A) IDP ceremony.
B) gaar ceremony.
C) cicatrization ceremony.
D) ngoya ceremony.

Question 33

In "Nuer Refugees in America," Shandy notes that a peace agreement signed in __________ ended the North-South war in Sudan,and South Sudan gained its independence in __________.

A) 1983, 2005
B) 2011, 2014
C) 1996, 2011
D) 2005, 2011