1. It is concerned with the spreading of holy ideas globally.

RELIGIOUS
2. He confirmed the statement of De Tocqueville by nothing that “historically, religion has always been
at the very center of all great political conflicts and movements of social reform. JOSE
CASANOVA
3. Massive environmental problems are difficult to resolve because governments believe that for their
countries to become fully developed, they must be industrialized, urbanized, and inhabited by the
robust middle class with access to the best of modern amenities. TRUE
4. Global warming is the result of billion of tons of carbon dioxide, various air pollutants, and other
gases accumulating in the atmosphere. TRUE
5. He condemned globalization’s “throw-away culture” that is fatally destined to suffocate hope and
increase risk and threats. POPE FRANCIS
6. A critic of population control who disagrees with the advocate of neo-Malthusian theory and accused
governments of using population control as a “substitute for social justice and much-needed reforms-
such as land distribution, employment creation, provision of mass education and health care and
emancipation. BETSY HARTMANN
7. Refers to people moving from one area to another within one country. INTERNAL MIGRATION
8. Conducted a survey on the impact of immigration concluded that the likelihood and magnitude of
adverse labour market effects for native from immigration are substantially weaker than often
perceived. The fiscal impact of immigration on social welfare was noted to be very small.
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
9. The process of siphoning…qualified personnel, removing dynamic young workers and professionals.
BRAIN DAIN
10. Observes that in countries like the Philippines, remittances “do not have a significant influence on
other key items of consumption or investment such as spending on education and health care. ASIAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK
11. He was a French historian and diplomat who wrote that “not only do the Americans practice their
religion out of self-interest but they often even place in this world the interest which they have
practicing it. ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
12. An association of different Protestant congregations which criticizes economic globalization’s
negative effects. THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES
13. He argues that far from being secularized, the contemporary world is … furiously religious. PETER
BERGER
14. A sociologist who popularized the term “global city” in the 1990s. SASKIA SASSEN
15. British Scholar who warned in his 1798 “An Essay on the Principle of Population” that population
growth will inevitably exhaust world food supply by the middle of the 19 th century. THOMAS
MALTHUS
16. Wrote the Population Bomb, which argued that overpopulation in the 1970’s and the 1980’s will
bring about global environmental disasters that would, in turn, lead to food shortage and mass
starvation. PAUL R. ERLICH ANF HIS WIFE-ANNE
17. Stated that first-generation immigrants constitute 13 percent of the population in Western Europe, 15
percent in North America, and 48 percent in the GCC Countries. MCKINSEY GLOBAL
INSTITUTE
18. In 2014, this country held the highest recorded remittances which amounted to $70 billion. INDIA
19. Top Three (3) Regions of Origin of Migrants in the World LATIN AMERICA, EAST EUROPE
AND CENTRAL ASIA, MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
20. Types of reproductive technologies proposed by the advocates of population control. CONDOM,
THE PILLS, ABORTION, VASECTOMY
21. In North America and Europe, how many percent of governments allow abortion upon a mother’s
request? 73%
22. They said that annual cereal production must rise to 3 billion tons from current 2.1 billion.
Furthermore, they said that yearly meat production must go up to 200 million tons to reach 470
million. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION (FAO)

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 23. Globalization is spatial because it occurs in physical spaces and what makes it move is the fact that it
is based in places. TRUE
24. Globalization has “freed” communities from the “constraints of the nation-state,” but in the process,
also threatened to destroy the cultural system that bind them together. TRUE
25. Jack Lule describes media as “a means of conveying something, such as a channel of communication
TRUE
26. Marshall McLuhan mainly analyzed the social changes brought about by television and declared this,
turning the world into a “global village”. TRUE
27. Saskia Sassen initially identified three global cities: New York, London and China, all of which are
hubs of global finance and capitalism. FALSE-TOKYO
28. Paris Accord seeks to limit the increase in the global average temperature based on targeted goals as
recommended by scientist. TRUE
29. For John Tomlinson, cultural globalization is simply a euphemism for “Western cultural imperialism”
since it promotes “homogenized, Westernized, consumer culture.” TRUE
30. The CO2 emitted in one country may have severe effects on the climate of another. There is no choice
but to find local solutions to this global problem. FALSE - GLOBAL

 Attributes of the Global City

- Global cities, it is suggested, have more interconnectedness with other cities and across a
transnational field of action than with the national economy. Global cities are also said to share
many of the same characteristics because of their connectedness and shared experiences of
globalization.
 The Challenges of Global Cities
- Dealing with environmental issues ... Global cities are the very symbols of global economic
growth 
 Brain Drain
-  is the movement of skilled individuals from a less developed area to a more developed
area. Brain drain is the process in a which a country or area loses it most talented and educated
workers to other countries or areas.
 Cultural Imperialism
is “a process of social influence by which a nation imposes on other countries its set beliefs, values, knowledge
and behavioral norms as well as its overall style of life”

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