The Contemporary World Quiz 1: Child Labor Deprives Children of Their Childhood

THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
QUIZ 1
The 2016 Global Estimates of Child Labour indicate that one-fifth of all African children are involved in
child labour, a proportion more than twice as high as in any other region. Nine per cent of African
children are in hazardous work, again highest of all the world's regions. Africa has the largest number
of child labourers; 72.1 million African children are estimated to be in child labour and 31.5 million in
hazardous work (International Labour Organization, 2017). The statement means that:
=Child labor deprives children of their childhood.
Which of the following statements is not true about globalization?
=Globalization is a recent phenomenon which traces its origin in the Information Age and thrived
because of the presence of social media and new technologies.
Dabbing, or the dab, is a simple dance move in which a person drops the head into the bent crook of a
slanted arm, typically while raising the opposite arm in a parallel direction but out straight; both arms
are pointed to the side and at an upward angle. Since 2015, it has also been used as a gesture of
triumph or playfulness, becoming a youthful American dance fad and Internet meme (Ducey, 2015).
Since the trend has gone viral, young Filipinos also picked it up as a playful pose. The dab fad in the
Philippines is what aspect of globalization?
=Cultural
Which of the following statements is true about the effects of globalization?
=All of the choices.
is the timeframe over which a thing is created, passed on to exhibit, and over the long run removed
from the world market.
=Item life cycle
Social media has become a ubiquitous part of daily life, but this growth and evolution has been in the
works since the late 70s. From primitive days of newsgroups, listservs and the introduction of early
chat rooms, social media has changed the way we communicate, gather and share information, and
given rise to a connected global society (Morrison, 2015). This evolution of social media is what aspect
of globalization?
=Sociological
The United Nations came into being in 1945, following the devastation of the Second World War, with
one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security. The UN does this by
working to prevent conflict; helping parties in conflict make peace; peacekeeping; and creating the
conditions to allow peace to hold and flourish. What aspect of globalization deals with the
establishment of UN in order to maintain international peace and security?
=Political
Economic globalization is the increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the
world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, service, technology, and capital.
Some sociologists, like William I. Robinson has argued that because a capitalist economy is premised
on growth and expansion, a globalized economy is the inevitable result of ________________.
=Capitalism
Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, Japan, and the United States colonized countries
spread their empires. These nations have created global economic, political, cultural, and social
connections around the world. The extending of a country's power and influence is called:
=Imperialism
When businesses want to manufacture their products at a cheaper rate, they employ the services from
developing countries which is possible in countries such as China and Cambodia, where manufacturing
costs and wages are lower than highly developed countries. This business practice is called
____________.
=Outsourcing
QUIZ 2
The level of personal or family income below which one is classified as poor according to
governmental standards:
=Poverty line
Which of the following statements is not true?
=Membership in the regional development banks is limited to countries from the region.
The Millennium Development Goals were the eight international development goals created by the
United Nations for the year 2015 to address the different problems in the world. Which of the
following ranked first in the eight development goals?
=Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from
his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Sanders identified the
potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise
opened in Utah in 1952. By 1963, Sanders was fielding franchise requests without having to put in the
legwork, and had more than 600 restaurants across the US and Canada selling Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Years later, Kentucky Fried Chicken would establish its own restaurants around the world, and the rest
is history. The success of KFC as a business is what attribute of global corporations?
=Value opportunity to expand
The United Nations defines _____ as a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human
needs including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and
information.
=Extreme poverty
With around 20,000 stores in 63 countries, Starbucks, the world's most popular coffee house has made
its mark from Brazil to China, where many thought it would fail to take off due to the cultural
importance of tea drinking. The company has gone to great lengths to make sure that every Starbucks
feels like a local coffee house, without losing brand consistency. For example, in China, a regional
dislike for coffee was combatted with coffee-free drinks, whilst stores in Asia feature more adaptable
seating arrangements to cater for larger groups. This effort is what attribute of a global corporation?
=Understand different cultures
=Economic globalization is the independence of world economies as a result of the growing scale of
cross-border trade of commodities and services.
Which of the following is not true about the history of global market integration?
=The high costs of and the risks associated with long voyages did not limit trade to a relatively small
set of commodities of high value relative to their weight and bulk.
In his book, The Modern World System, American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein described high-
income nations as the ____ of the world economy.
=CORE
The term international financial institution typically refers to the International Monetary Fund, the
World Bank Group, the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American
Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. The last five banks
are considered MDBs. What does MDBs stand for?
=Multilateral Development Banks
PRELIMS
Which of the following examples does not refer to resources and markets as factors affecting
economic globalization
=The founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
=Political
With around 20,000 stores in 63 countries, Starbucks, the world's most popular coffee house has made
its mark from Brazil to China, where many thought it would fail to take off due to the cultural
importance of tea drinking. The company has gone to great lengths to make sure that every Starbucks
feels like a local coffee house, without losing brand consistency. For example, in China, a regional
dislike for coffee was combatted with coffee-free drinks, whilst stores in Asia feature more adaptable
seating arrangements to cater for larger groups. This effort is what attribute of a global corporation?
The decision, the conflict, and the resolution of that conflict are done through the ______ of the
government established and codified in that particular state, whether or not through elections:
=Institution
=All of the choices
The work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is
harmful to physical and mental development is called:
=Child labor
In his book, The Modern World System, American sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein described high-
income nations as the ____ of the world economy.
=CORE
The European Union grew out of a desire for peace in a war-torn and divided continent. Five years
after World War II ended, France and Germany came up with a plan to ensure their two countries
would never go to war against each other again. The result was a deal signed by six nations to pool
their coal and steel resources in 1950. Seven years later a treaty signed in Rome created the European
Economic Community (EEC) - the foundations of today's European Union. The UK was one of three
new members to join in the first wave of expansion in 1973. Today the EU has 28 member states with
a total population of more than 500 million (bbc.com). The founding of the European Union is
influenced by what aspect of globalization?
=Political
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child is a comprehensive, internationally binding agreement
on the rights of children, a human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social,
health and cultural rights of children. When was the treaty adopted by the United Nations?
=UN General Assembly 1989
When did the UN Security Council decided on comprehensive and mandatory sanctions, for the first
time in the past 22 years against Iraq's invasion of Kuwait?
=August 1990
Nike and Apple's "Nike+" is a co-branding collaboration which started as as a way to bring music from
Apple to Nike customers' workouts using the power of technology: Nike+iPod created fitness trackers
and sneakers and clothing that tracked activity while connecting people to their tunes. It's a genius co-
branding move that helps both parties provide a better experience to customers - and with the
popularity of fitness tracking technology, Nike+ is ahead of the curve by making it easy for athletes to
track while they play. What attribute of global corporations do Nike and Apple employ?
=Carefully chosen international partners

Philip Morris International is an American cigarette and tobacco company which sells its products in
180 countries outside the United States. In the Forbes Global 2000 List, it grabbed the top spot with
foreign revenue unsurprisingly accounting for 100 percent of total revenue, considering that it sells its
products exclusively overseas. What attribute of global corporations does Philip Morris International
employ?
=Measure success
=Poverty line
Social media has become a ubiquitous part of daily life, but this growth and evolution has been in the
works since the late 70s. From primitive days of newsgroups, listservs and the introduction of early
chat rooms, social media has changed the way we communicate, gather and share information, and
given rise to a connected global society (Morrison, 2015). This evolution of social media is what aspect
of globalization?
=Sociological
A group of people who has the ultimate authority to act on behalf of a state is called:
=Government
This type of financing is provided by the Multilateral Development Banks to member countries, mostly
for technical assistance, advisory services, or project preparation:
=Grant financing
Long before Airbnb persuaded strangers to sleep in one another's homes and became a $25 billion
company, it was just an idea to make extra bucks and make rent. It started with an email. Joe Gebbia
sent his roommate, Brian Chesky, an idea: What if they made a designer's bed and breakfast, complete
with a sleeping mat and breakfast? It was a way to "make a few bucks." Almost nine years later that
idea is worth $25 billion. They created a simple site, airbedandbreakfast.com, and bought three air
mattresses. The duo had met at college at the Rhode Island School of Design, so they thought acting as
tour guides to designers would be a fun way to make money. By 2011, four years after the first air
mattress guests, Airbnb was already in 89 countries and had hit 1 million nights booked on the
platform. It also finally won the break-out mobile app award at SXSW - despite having tried to launch
there three years earlier (Carson, 2016). What attribute of global corporations contributed to the
success of Airbnb?
=Turbo-charged by the internet
Korean Pop music or more famously known as K-pop has become a truly global phenomenon because
of its distinctive blend of addictive melodies, slick choreography and production values, and an
endless parade of attractive South Korean performers who spend years in grueling studio systems
learning to sing and dance in synchronized perfection. Aside from the music, K-pop has also influenced
the global audience in terms of fashion, movies, dramas, and cuisine. K-pop has been building for two
decades, but K-pop in particular has become increasingly visible to global audiences in the past five to
10 years. South Korean artists have hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart at least eight times since the
Wonder Girls first cracked it in 2009 with their crossover hit "Nobody" - released in four different
languages, including English - and the export of K-pop has ballooned South Korea's music industry to
an impressive $5 billion industry. K-pop is what aspect of globalization?
=Cultural
What is the timeframe over which a product is created, passed on to exhibit, and over the long run
removed from the world market?
=Item life cycle
Many American companies are now transferring technology development, customer service, financial
and administrative jobs to international markets. India is the leading recipient of the outsourcing of
information technology functions like software development and maintenance, and also BPOs. The
latter includes back-office functions like accounting, human resources, call centers and data analysis
(DiCarlo, 2003). The practice of farming out jobs from a home base to other countries, largely in an
effort to cut costs is called:
=Outsourcing
Since joining the world body in 1956, this country has all along positioned cooperation with the United
Nations as a major pillar of its diplomacy. It has cooperated in UN activities in a wide range of areas,
making the second largest financial contributions among the member States next only to the United
States:
=Japan
One of the traditional challenges of a country is an invasion of other countries, which is also called:
=External intervention
Which of the following examples refers to generation issues as factors influencing economic
globalization?
=Toyota factories and assembling plants in different parts of the globe
Economic globalization is the increasing economic interdependence of national economies across the
world through a rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, service, technology, and capital.
Some sociologists, like William I. Robinson has argued that because a capitalist economy is premised
on growth and expansion, a globalized economy is the inevitable result of ________________.
=Capitalism
KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from
his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky during the Great Depression. Sanders identified the
potential of the restaurant franchising concept, and the first "Kentucky Fried Chicken" franchise
opened in Utah in 1952. By 1963, Sanders was fielding franchise requests without having to put in the
legwork, and had more than 600 restaurants across the US and Canada selling Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Years later, Kentucky Fried Chicken would establish its own restaurants around the world, and the rest
is history. The success of KFC as a business is what attribute of global corporations?
=Value opportunity to expand
information.
=Extreme poverty
Which of the following is not true about the attributes of global corporations?
=Companies that invest in the internet and produce web-based products are more unlikely to grow
globally because there is more money involved in their international expansion.
=Economic globalization is the independence of world economies as a result of the growing scale of
cross-border trade of commodities and services.
Which of the following examples refers to political factor influencing economic globalization?
= IBM currently employs more workers in India than it does in the United States
An ideology that is similarly geared towards a decrease of international barriers but with the aim of
the economic betterment of the planet in mind, not the perpetuation of power and privilege in the
hands of the western dominated economies:
=Internationalism
According to Albert Subbloie, CEO and Founder of Tangoe, a good benchmark of whether your
company should continue efforts in a country is when _______ percent of your business is coming
from outside the United States.
=20-50%
This type of financing is provided by the Multilateral Development Banks to member countries, with
maturities of 30 to 40 years, at interest rates well below market rates. These are funded through direct
contributions by governments in the donor countries:
=Very-long-term loans
Which of the following examples refers to historical factor influencing economic globalization?
=Europeans traveled around the globe to barter crafts and furs in exchange for silks and perfumes in
the Middle Ages
Among the eight Millennium Development Goals created by the United Nations in the 1990's, which
ranked first?
=Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Based on the Modern World System of Immanuel Wallerstein, which of the following statements is
incorrect?
=The semi-periphery of the world economy is the manufacturing base of the planet.
These institutions provide financial support and professional advice for economic and social
development activities in developing countries and promote international economic cooperation and
stability:
= International Financial Institutions
The five Multilateral Development Banks are composed of the following, except:
=Green Climate Fund
Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Netherlands, Japan, and the United States colonized countries and
spread their empires. These nations have created global economic, political, cultural, and social
connections around the world. The extending of a country's power and influence is called:
=Imperialism
The 2016 Global Estimates of Child Labour indicate that one-fifth of all African children are involved in
child labour, a proportion more than twice as high as in any other region. Nine per cent of African
children are in hazardous work, again highest of all the world's regions. Africa has the largest number
of child labourers; 72.1 million African children are estimated to be in child labour and 31.5 million in
hazardous work (International Labour Organization, 2017). The statement means that:
=Child labor deprives children of their childhood
The level of riches, comfort, material merchandise, cash and necessities accessible to a specific
financial class in a specific region is called:
=Way of life
The following statements are correct about globalization except for the following:
=Globalization is a recent phenomenon which traces its origin in the Information Age and thrived
because of the presence of social media and new technologies.
=Membership in the regional development banks is limited to countries from the region.
McDonald's marketing has different strategy in different regions. Even in Asia, the advertising content
for each country is different. For example, in Japan, most Japanese have high preferences on
animations and the animation in Japan is the fastest growing industry as well. So McDonald's tends to
use more animation elements for marketing and advertising. It aims to attract more target customers,
including kids, teenagers, and even young adults. Many well-known cartoons were used in McDonald's
advertisement marketing that enhances the attractiveness and popularity of products. In Malaysia,
the Halal logo are indicated in all kinds of Halal food advertising. It also emphasizes on good values
with draw attentions of local customs. The customs in different areas presents diversity. McDonald's
also considered the local eating habits to practice the different marketing strategies. For example,
many Chinese people choose Chinese food for breakfast, McDonald's launched a Chinese-style
breakfast based on the eating habits (Li, 2016). What attribute of global corporations does McDonald's
practice?
Conflicts in Central America made major progress toward a peaceful settlement, thanks to an active
role played by the United Nations. A general election was held on February 25, 1990. What was the
name of the committee established by UN in response to a request by Central American countries,
which started its activity to ensure the dissolution and repatriation of the anti-government guerrillas?
=Committee on International Assistance and Verification
This type of financing is provided by Multilateral Development Banks to member countries, with
maturities of up to 20 years, based on market interest rates. The financial resources for these loans are
obtained by borrowing on the international capital markets and re-lend to borrowing governments in
developing countries:
=Long-term loans
This includes private economy, educational institutions, churches, hospitals, fraternal organizations,
and other non-profit organizations:
= Civil society
In January 1989, the UN Security Council passed a resolution to implement in April the resolution to
establish the UN Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) and called for material and personnel support
from member countries. In November, a constitutional assembly election was held under observation
of the UNTAG. As a result, this country became independent in March 1990 and joined the United
Nations in April:
=Namibia
one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security. The United Nations is
responsible for maintaining ceasefires and stabilizing situations on the ground, providing crucial
support for political efforts to resolve conflict by peaceful means. Those missions consisted of
unarmed military observers and lightly armed troops with primarily monitoring, reporting and
confidence-building roles. Which unit of the United Nations is responsible for these efforts?
=Security Council
Which of the following examples does not refer to resources and markets as factors affecting
economic globalization
=The founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
The work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is
harmful to physical and mental development is called:
=Child labor
information.
=Extreme poverty
=All of the choices.
=Poverty line
=Political
Long before Airbnb persuaded strangers to sleep in one another's homes and became a $25 billion
company, it was just an idea to make extra bucks and make rent. It started with an email. Joe Gebbia
sent his roommate, Brian Chesky, an idea: What if they made a designer's bed and breakfast, complete
with a sleeping mat and breakfast? It was a way to "make a few bucks." Almost nine years later that
idea is worth $25 billion. They created a simple site, airbedandbreakfast.com, and bought three air
mattresses. The duo had met at college at the Rhode Island School of Design, so they thought acting as
tour guides to designers would be a fun way to make money. By 2011, four years after the first air
mattress guests, Airbnb was already in 89 countries and had hit 1 million nights booked on the
platform. It also finally won the break-out mobile app award at SXSW - despite having tried to launch
there three years earlier (Carson, 2016). What attribute of global corporations contributed to the
success of Airbnb?
=Turbo-charged by the internet
Which of the following is not true about the attributes of global corporations?
=Companies that invest in the internet and produce web-based products are more unlikely to grow
globally because there is more money involved in their international expansion.
QUIZ 3
Who introduced the "three worlds" model wherein the First World included the United States and its
capitalist allies in places such as Western Europe, Japan and Australia; the Second World consisted of
the communist Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites; and the Third World encompassed all
the other countries that were not actively aligned with either side in the Cold War?
=Alfred Sauvy
It is the proneness of the governments and peoples of two or more states to establish voluntary
associations and to pool together resources in order to create common functional and institutional
arrangements and a process occurring in a given geographical region by which different types of actors
come to share certain fundamental values and norms.
=Regionalism
ASEAN +3 is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the Association of

Southeast Asian Nations and three other nations namely:
=China, Korea, Japan
What was the term used to describe several industrial countries and majority of these countries either
practiced a socialistic system of government or a communist system of government?
=Second World
Who theorized that the 1st World was composed of the "superpowers" - US, Soviet Union, etc; the
2nd World was composed of lesser powers; and the 3rd World was composed of post-colonial
emerging markets.
=Mao Zedong
The term ______ is often used as shorthand for poor or developing nations.
=Third World
These regions are also called perceptual regions which are often based around a common cultural
characteristic:
=Vernacular regions
It is a socio-economic and political divide of countries, comprising the three worlds known as First,
Second, and Third Worlds.
=North-South Divide
It is a continuing process of forming regions as geopolitical units, as organized political cooperation

within a particular group of states, and/or as regional communities such as pluralistic security
communities.
=Regionalization
These regions are also called formal regions some trait is shared with relative uniformity across the
space.
=Uniform regions
QUIZ 4
This form of media is also known as new media, consisting of contents that are organized and
distributed on digital platforms:
=Digital media
This refers to industrial culture, organized on the model of mass production and is produced for a mass
audience according to types (genres), following conventional formulas, codes, and rules.
=Media culture
Rapid expansion of global communications can be traced back to the mechanical advancements of
technologies during the 18th/19th centuries, which began with the invention of the _______ in 1837:
=Telegraph
The five largest religions in the world are Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and:
=Buddhism
A religious organization requiring a high level of commitment and activity wherein members are
expected to support its teachings and to comply with its lifestyle, which may be strict and ascetic:
=Sect
What is the term coined by Marshall McLuhan which describes the phenomenon of the world's culture
shrinking and expanding at the same time due to pervasive technological advances that allow for
instantaneous sharing of culture?
=Global village
What is a system of beliefs, rituals, and practices, usually institutionalized in one manner or another,
which connects this world with the beyond and provides the bridge that allows humans to approach
the divine, the universal life force that both encompasses and transcends the world?
=Religion
Membership in this religious organization is by childbirth wherein new generations are born into it and
are formally inducted through baptism:
=Church
It is the complex phenomenon of a total way of life for the Jewish people, comprising theology, law,
and innumerable cultural traditions:
=Judaism
The term _______ comes from the word medium which is defined as channel, means, or method:
=Media
QUIZ 4
It is a global city's perceived power to attract creative people and businesses from across the globe,
and to "mobilize their assets" to boost economic, social and environmental development:
=Magnetism
The rise of global cities has been linked with the expansion of the role of TNCs in global production
patterns. TNC stands for:
=Transnational corporation
It is the statistical study of human populations:
=Geography
The annual changes in population resulting from births, deaths and net migration during the year:
= Growth rate
It is an urban center that enjoys significant competitive advantages and that serves as a hub within a
globalized economic system:
=Global city
What attribute of a global city refers to having a storehouse of smart, educated, creative people?
=Human capital
Which of the following does not belong to the four pillars of urban life?
=Recreational
The most populous country in the world today is:
=China
The phenomenon wherein fertility declines and life expectancy rises, the proportion of the population
above a certain age rises as well:
=Population ageing
This refers to all nationals present in, or temporarily absent from a country, and aliens permanently
settled in a country. This indicator shows the number of people that usually live in an area:
=Population
This is one of the importance of demography that is studying the mobilization trends of people .
=Migration Planning
This is one of the importances of demography that is concerned with providing basic needs of people
as more and more are experiencing inadequacies in this basic need.
=Planning for Food Supply
Delivering sufficient food to the entire world population is not synonymous to global food security.
=FALSE
The rapid population growth affected the age structure of the West during the twentieth century.
=FALSE
According to UN, the following countries are projected to be the top net receivers of international
migrants (more than 100,000 annually) between 2015 and 2050:
=United States of America, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and the Russian
Federation
Food security can also signify sustainability of society.
=TRUE
This the ratio between the elderly population and the working age (15-64 years)
=Elderly Dependency Rate
Population ageing refers to the decline in fertility and increase in life expectancy.
=TRUE
This is the total number of children that would be born to each woman if she were to live to the end of
her child-bearing year
=Total Fertility Rate
A type of migration which refers to a move from one area (a province, district or municipality) to
another within one country:
=Internal migration
People with qualifications as managers, executives, professionals, technicians or similar, who move
within the internal labor markets of trans-national corporations and international organizations, or
who seek employment through international labor markets for scarce skills:
=Highly skilled and business migrants
=A pull factor refers to conditions which force people to leave their homes
The relationship between globalization and sustainability is limited to economic development.
=FALSE
This refers to the group of population who are aged 65 years old and above
=Elderly population
Sustainable development is one significant global approach to economic globalization.
=TRUE
A type of migration which refers to territorial relocation of people between nation-states:
=International migration
Which of the following is not considered a reason why people move across international borders:
=Religion
This provide a basis for other statistical projections, helping governments in their decision making and
it is measured in terms of annual growth rate and in thousands of people
=Population Projection
What are the two factors identified to be contributors to the increase in population?
=Improved Survival Rate and High Fertility Rate
What area has the greatest percentage of population aged 60 or over
=Europe
This is one of the importance of demography that is concerned with providing the growing number of
population which has a direct impact on the increase for the need for shelter
=Housing Planning
What term refers to the permanent change of residence by an individual or group excluding such
movements as nomadism, migrant labor, commuting, and tourism, all of which are transitory in
nature?
=Migration
People who enter a country, usually in search of employment, without the necessary documents and
permits:
= Irregular migrants
This is one of the importance of demography that is concerned with creating a plan of action in
providing job security for people.
=Employment Planning
This is one of the importance of social demography that is concerned with the welfare specifically of
the mother and child, specially the problem faced of mothers during pregnancy which is malnutrition
=Health Planning
Support ratio refers to the number of workers per retiree
=TRUE
What is the top most populous country in the world according to Time
=China
This is one of the importance of demography that is concerned with the youth and providing them this
basic right for schooling
=Educational Planning
The differences in time of demographic transition affected the global population.
=TRUE
Population explosion refers to the continuous increase in population
=FALSE
This refers to the annual changes in population resulting from births, deaths and net migration during
the year
=Growth Rate
Continuous production of world's natural resources poster all positive development more importantly
to environment.
=FALSE
Free trade can positively impact on environment.

=FALSE
In Asia, decline in population begun in the mid of the twentieth century.
=TRUE
The use of earth's resources for development and preservation of such sources is called economic
globalization.
=FALSE
These are factors in the destination country that attract the individual or group to leave their home
because of the opportunities presented in the new location were not available to them previously:
=Pull Factor
Crude birth rate refers to the the number of births that occur each year per 10,000 people in the
midyear population
=FALSE
Demography is very useful for understanding social and economic problems and identifying potential
solutions
=True
These are migrants who migrate for a limited period of time in order to take up employment and send
money home:
=Temporary labor migrants
According to some scholars, the oldest living religion on Earth is ______:
=Hinduism
The term used to describe the role of media in promoting transparency in public life and public
scrutiny of those with power through exposing corruption, maladministration and corporate wrong-
doing:
=Watchdog
= The "three worlds" model of geopolitics first arose in the mid-18th century as a way of mapping the
various players in the Cold War.
These regions are also called perceptual regions which are often based around a common cultural
characteristic:
=Vernacular regions
Aside from South Korea, the only Asian country belonging to the First World category is:
= Japan
=Globalization brings a culture of monism, meaning religions "with overlapping but distinctive ethics and
interests" interact with one another
The term Buddha is a Sanskrit word which means:
=Awakened One
=According to McLuhan, the world was entering a fourth ''age'' he called the iron age, where people
everywhere would be able to find and experience the same information through technological tools.
What takes place when a country dominates others through its media exports, including advertising
messages, films, and television and radio programming?
=Cultural imperialism
In the distinct socio-economic and political categorization of countries, which countries in the
southern hemisphere are labeled part of the North?
=New Zealand and Australia
The South is comprised of countries with developing economies which were initially referred to as
Second World countries during the Cold War
A non-traditional form of religion, the doctrine of which is taken from diverse sources, either from
non-traditional sources or local narratives or an amalgamation of both, whose members constitute
either a loosely knit group or an exclusive group, which emphasizes the belief in the divine element
within the individual, and whose teachings are derived from either a real or legendary figure, the
purpose of which is to aid the individual in the full realization of his or her spiritual powers and/or
union with the Divine:
=Cult
Who coined the term "global village" which describes the phenomenon of the world's culture
shrinking and expanding at the same time due to pervasive technological advances that allow for
instantaneous sharing of culture?
=Marshall McLuhan
It is a regional economic forum established in 1989 to leverage the growing interdependence of the
Asia-Pacific and its 21 members aim to create greater prosperity for the people of the region by
promoting balanced, inclusive, sustainable, innovative and secure growth and by accelerating regional
economic integration:
=APEC
It is currently the world's largest religious group stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus
of Nazareth in the 1st century AD:
=Christianity
The term _______ comes from the word medium which is defined as channel, means, or method:
=Media
A form of media, such as radio and television, that reach target audiences using airwaves as the
transmission medium:
=Broadcast media
Dividing the countries in two hemispheres originated in which period?
=Cold War
ASEAN +3 is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the Association of

Southeast Asian Nations and three other nations namely:
=China, Korea, Japan
Which of the following does not belong among the regional organizations in the Western Hemisphere?
=Gulf Cooperation Council
Who theorized that the 1st World was composed of the "superpowers" - US, Soviet Union, etc; the
2nd World was composed of lesser powers; and the 3rd World was composed of post-colonial
emerging markets?
=Mao Zedong
This refers to industrial culture, organized on the model of mass production and is produced for a mass
audience according to types (genres), following conventional formulas, codes, and rules.
=Media culture
The SAARC comprises of eight Member States: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives,
Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. SAARC stands for:
=South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
These regions are also called formal regions wherein some trait is shared with relative uniformity
across the space.
=Uniform regions
What is the institutional arrangements designed to facilitate the free flow of goods and services and to
coordinate foreign economic policies between countries in the same geographic region?
=Economic regionalism
These organizations were established to link together geographically and ideologically related states:
=Regional organizations
A religious organization that claims to possess the truth about salvation exclusively wherein
membership is by childbirth: new generations are born into the church and are formally inducted
through baptism:
=Church
It is a regional organization comprising seven member states lying in the littoral and adjacent areas of
the Bay of Bengal constituting a contiguous regional unity:
=BIMSTEC
What is the shorthand term used to describe for poor or developing nations?
=Third World
What term is alternatively used to refer to Third World countries?
=Developing country
=Media are a vehicle for cultural expression and cultural incoherence within and between nations.
What is the distinct socio-economic and political categorization of countries comprising the three
worlds known as First, Second, and Third Worlds?
=North-South Divide
What was coined to refer to ethnically or religiously defined populations living within or across
national boundaries, nations without a sovereign state, and indigenous groups that are nomadic,
uncontacted or living outside of global society?
=Fourth World
It is the proneness of the governments and peoples of two or more states to establish voluntary
associations and to pool together resources in order to create common functional and institutional
arrangements and a process occurring in a given geographical region by which different types of actors
come to share certain fundamental values and norms:
=Regionalism
It is a monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews:
= Judaism
=Formed as a "club" of nation states, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took some time to find out
that cooperation with regional organizations might be of some use in improving social and economic
living conditions as well as maintaining international peace and security and safeguarding the enjoyment
of human rights.
It is a continuing process of forming regions as geopolitical units, as organized political cooperation

within a particular group of states, and/or as regional communities such as pluralistic security
communities:
=Regionalization
Who introduced the "three worlds" model wherein the First World included the United States and its
capitalist allies in places such as Western Europe, Japan and Australia; the Second World consisted of
the communist Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites; and the Third World encompassed all
the other countries that were not actively aligned with either side in the Cold War?
=Alfred Sauvy
In the Islam religion, Jesus is considered a ______.
=Prophet
What was the term used to describe several industrial countries and majority of these countries either
practiced a socialistic system of government or a communist system of government?
=Second World
It is a political and economic alliance of six countries in the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates:
=Gulf Cooperation Council
He is viewed as the sole God-creator, sustainer, and restorer of the world in the Islam religion:
=Allah
A form of media consisting of paper and ink, reproduced in a printing process that is traditionally
mechanical:
=Print media
The religion which was promulgated by the Prophet Muhammed in Arabia in the 7th century CE.
=ISLAM
=With regard the skepticism surrounding global media, international communication argues that global
media are in fact best described as Eastern media, at most of global scope.
=Nodal regions also called perceptual regions, based around some central point or node; typically
circular with fading boundaries.
= Asian regionalism build connected infrastructure and collaborate on inclusive development to reduce
inequalities within and across economies and thus to strengthen support for pro-growth policies.
=Homogenous regionalism is institutional arrangements designed to facilitate the free flow of goods and
services and to coordinate foreign economic policies between countries in the same geographic region.
=Culture can be explained as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe,
especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving
devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human
affairs.
What is a system of beliefs, rituals, and practices, usually institutionalized in one manner or another,
which connects this world with the beyond and provides the bridge that allows humans to approach
the divine, the universal life force that both encompasses and transcends the world?
=Religion

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THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

=Child labor deprives children of their childhood.

Which of the following statements is not true about globalization?

Which of the following statements is true about the effects of globalization?

=All of the choices.

=Item life cycle

Which of the following statements is not true?

=Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty

=Value opportunity to expand

=Understand different cultures

Which of the following statements is not true?

=Multilateral Development Banks

=The founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

=Understand different cultures

Which of the following statements is true about the effects of globalization?

=All of the choices

=Multilateral Development Banks

=UN General Assembly 1989

=Carefully chosen international partners

=Turbo-charged by the internet

=Item life cycle

=Toyota factories and assembling plants in different parts of the globe

=Value opportunity to expand

Which of the following statements is not true?

=Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger

= International Financial Institutions

=Green Climate Fund

=Child labor deprives children of their childhood

Which of the following statements is not true?

=Understand different cultures

=Committee on International Assistance and Verification

=The founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

=Multilateral Development Banks

Which of the following statements is true about the effects of globalization?

=All of the choices.

=Turbo-charged by the internet

ASEAN +3 is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the Association of

=China, Korea, Japan

It is a continuing process of forming regions as geopolitical units, as organized political cooperation

It is the statistical study of human populations:

The most populous country in the world today is:

=Planning for Food Supply

Food security can also signify sustainability of society.

=Elderly Dependency Rate

=Total Fertility Rate

=Highly skilled and business migrants

Which of the following statements is not true?

The relationship between globalization and sustainability is limited to economic development.

Sustainable development is one significant global approach to economic globalization.

A type of migration which refers to territorial relocation of people between nation-states:

=Improved Survival Rate and High Fertility Rate

What area has the greatest percentage of population aged 60 or over

Support ratio refers to the number of workers per retiree

The differences in time of demographic transition affected the global population.

Population explosion refers to the continuous increase in population

Free trade can positively impact on environment.

In Asia, decline in population begun in the mid of the twentieth century.

=Temporary labor migrants

According to some scholars, the oldest living religion on Earth is ______:

Which of the following statements is not true?

Which of the following statements is not true?

The term Buddha is a Sanskrit word which means: