Q&A Hero

Q: Discuss the impact of ethnocentrism in pluralistic societies on our world today. Use specific examples to illustrate your points.

Q: Consider the three primary kinds of world migration that are current today. How might each of these result in different challenges for the human populations most affected?

Q: What is the cultural significance of global migrations?

Q: Name three ways that anthropologists can contribute to meeting the challenges of globalization in our world today.

Q: How have ethnic minorities fought to defend themselves against global forces?

Q: What types of pollution affect our world today, and why are they such a serious health concern?

Q: Why do the Inuit peoples suffer from high levels of toxic breast milk?

Q: What types of structural violence are associated with food? Explain and give examples.

Q: Give three examples of structural violence and explain.

Q: What is the Gini Index?

Q: Who was S. Ann Dunham, and what did she contribute to anthropology?

Q: How is social media emerging as a more distinct source of "soft power"?

Q: What is soft power? Discuss this source of structural power as a global influence.

Q: Identify the world's major global corporations. Give at least four corporations.

Q: Why is it important to understand a country's structural power?

Q: Distinguish between hard and soft power, and provide examples of each.

Q: What are three of the negative impacts of global corporations?

Q: Describe the three primary types of migration that occur.

Q: What is a multicultural society? What are its primary characteristics?

Q: Under what social conditions would you expect to find xenophobia?

Q: What is the difference between internal migration and external migration?

Q: What is multiculturalism?

Q: What is meant by a "global culture"?

Q: The primary role of anthropologists in addressing the challenges of globalization is to document the native peoples who are disappearing.

Q: Experts predict that global warming will result in higher levels of structural violence.

Q: Global warming will cause a rise in diseases mostly in the more temperate areas of the globe.

Q: According to the World Watch Institute in Washington, D.C., more than 1.1 billion people in the world are now overweight or even obese.

Q: The change from subsistence farming to cash crops leads to economic improvement in the countries that make this change.

Q: The Gini Index is used by the United Nations as a way of calculating income disparity throughout the world.

Q: President Barack Obama's mother worked extensively in Kenya and South Africa as an anthropologist.

Q: Almost half (44%) of all people in the world get by on less than $2.00 per day.

Q: Social media is a type of "soft power."

Q: So great is the power of global corporations that they increasingly hamper the wishes of governments.

Q: Global corporations were rare before the latter half of the 20th century.

Q: The military is an example of soft power when it is not activated in warfare.

Q: As the world's dominant super power, the U.S. is responsible for nearly half of the world's military arms spending.

Q: Worldwide, about 1 billion people live in what would be classified as "slums."

Q: During the most recent economic recession, remittances to non-Western countries have increased as migrants have left in search of work.

Q: The world is clearly moving toward a single global culture.

Q: Almost 7% of the world's population lives outside its country of birth.

Q: Multiculturalism is a public policy for managing cultural diversity in a multi-ethnic society.

Q: The more divergent cultural traditions are, the more difficult it is for pluralism to be successful.

Q: Historical evidence supports the idea that a global culture will eliminate conflict.

Q: Applied anthropologist Paul Farmer is associated with all of the following except: a. he formed the medical group Partners in Health in Haiti. b. he established a clinic in Haiti to help deal with infectious disease. c. he focused his health work in Haiti on AIDS and tuberculosis. d. he works also in Jamaica to treat refugees from war-torn areas of Central America. e. he maintains an active practice in infectious diseases in the United States.

Q: In their work of meeting the challenges of globalization in human communities, anthropologists are ____, meaning they take into account many interacting factors to understand the functioning of a complex whole. a. evolutionary b. relativistic c. holistic d. cross-cultural e. ethnocentric

Q: In 2007, after many years of campaigning in the international media, political lobbying, and diplomatic pressure, the United Nations General Assembly passed the a. Declaration of the Independence of Indigenous Nations. b. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. c. Constitution for the Relief of Structural Violence. d. Bill of Rights of Indigenous Peoples. e. Independence Treaty of Indigenous Nations and Their Ancestors.

Q: There are just under 200 formally admitted members of the U.N. today, but there are approximately ____ national groups that consider themselves distinct because of birth and cultural and territorial heritage. a. 200 b. 500 c. 1,000 d. 5,000 e. 10,000

Q: To help resolve problems of global structural violence, which of the following values and cultural motivations would notbe needed? a. A xenophobic policy that would work to help countries seal their national borders and begin to work to improve the lives of their citizenry only b. A worldview that sees humanity as part of the natural world, rather than superior to it c. A sense of social responsibility that recognizes that no individual, people, or state has the right to expropriate resources at the expense of others d. An awareness of how important supportive ties are for individuals, such as seen in kinship or other associations in the world's traditional societies e. A sense of value for the natural resources that humans have harnessed for millennia in order to survive

Q: The Probo Koala dumped toxic waste in ____ that caused more than 40,000 locals to get sick. a. Nigeria b. Cte d"Ivoire c. Bolivia d. Zambia e. India

Q: Global warming is thought to be primarily caused by a. climate shifts. b. tilting of the Earth. c. loss of ozone. d. burning fields. e. burning fossil fuels.

Q: Where do the PCBs found in Inuit breast milk originate? a. Africa and Asia b. Asia, Europe, and Australia c. Europe, Asia, and Africa d. North and South America e. North America, Europe, and Asia

Q: PCB contamination in breast milk is nowhere higher than among the a. Australian aborigines. b. Apache. c. Yanomamo. d. Inuit. e. Navajo.

Q: The demand by "developed" countries for such items as coffee, tea, chocolate, bananas, and beef has led to a. pushing subsistence farmers off their land to make way for huge farms and ranches that specialize in cash crops. b. an increase in food supplies in "underdeveloped" nations. c. a return of urban workers to the land where work is now available for them. d. a decrease in the use of pesticides, herbicides, and artificial fertilizers. e. a narrowing of the economic gap between rich and poor in world society today.

Q: The change from subsistence farming to cash crops a. enables farmers to enlarge their holdings and feed their families more effectively. b. results in the relocation of subsistence farmers to urban areas or to lands ecologically unfit for farming. c. leads to the decline of multinational corporations. d. supports cultural pluralism. e. leads to revitalization.

Q: The current world population is around how many billion? a. 2 b. 4 c. 7 d. 10 e. 12

Q: Current projections say that global population will peak around the year a. 2020. b. 2025. c. 2050. d. 2070. e. 2085.

Q: All of the following are research topics and work that anthropologist S. Ann Dunham focused on while in Indonesia and Pakistan except: a. interest in handicraft industry. b. development of small rural businesses. c. critique of modernization theory. d. pastoral subsistence in the rural areas. e. study of rural women in Indonesia.

Q: Anthropologist S. Ann Dunham was the mother of which U.S. president? a. George Bush b. Barack Obama c. Ronald Reagan d. Dwight Eisenhower e. Bill Clinton

Q: On the Gini Index, which country rates currently at the highest level of disparity? a. Sweden b. United States c. China d. Egypt e. Senegal

Q: What is the "Gini Index"? a. An index that measures the cost and profit of the largest megacorporations in the world; this index calculates the value and cost of each corporation b. An income inequality index that measures how much disparity in income exists within a country c. An index which calculates how much pollution is expelled per person within a country d. A way of measuring global caloric output and distribution of food as a way of predicting malnutrition and obesity worldwide e. An index that is used by the United Nations as a way of evaluating the political situation in each country; those with higher numbers on the index are more prone to human rights abuses

Q: When over 200,000 people were injured or killed as a result of gas being released from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, the cause was attributed to a number of factors: the company saving money by not installing safety devices, the political arrangements that enable Union Carbide to build a plant in India, the people living in the vicinity of the plant being too poor to live in safer locations, etc. Thus, the people were victims of a. structural violence. b. soft power. c. apartheid. d. multiculturalism. e. xenophobia.

Q: Which of the following organizations is an example of "soft power"? a. Coast Guard b. Shell Energy c. Cable News Network d. Wal-Mart e. US Army

Q: Why did the community of Mallku Khota protest so vigorously against the South American Silver Association? a. They were concerned that the mining operation would ruin their land b. They were not allowed to have shares in the corporation and so could not benefit from market success c. They felt that the hiring processes of the corporation were discriminatory d. They were opposed to foreign ownership of Bolivian corporations e. They were not paying wages that equaled that of American workers

Q: In their search for cheap labor, global corporations have tended to favor _____ for low-skilled assembly jobs. a. immigrants b. women c. men d. robots e. children

Q: All of the following statements about megacorporations are correct except: a. many of them generate more money than whole countries. b. they are often subject to open records and must disclose many internal affairs. c. they are the products of the technological revolution. d. they are such large businesses that they can often ignore and change the plans of government where they operate. e. they are controlled by wealthy capitalists.

Q: Of the nearly $1.55 trillion spent on arms worldwide, the United States is responsible for spending what percentage? a. 21 b. 44 c. 51 d. 63 e. 96

Q: The use of propaganda as a way of exerting influence over others is what type of structural power? a. Hard power b. Soft power c. Symbolic power d. Mercantile power e. Coercion

Q: Coercive power that is backed up by economic and military force is called a. structural violence. b. imposed force. c. coercion. d. hard power. e. soft power.

Q: Power that organizes and orchestrates the systemic interaction within and among societies is called a. symbolic power. b. structural power. c. hard power. d. soft power. e. structural violence.

Q: In which urban area do we currently find some of the largest numbers of urban poor? a. London, England b. Nairobi, Kenya c. Paris, France d. Los Angeles, California e. Lagos, Nigeria

Q: Xenophobia tends to occur during very specific situations. Which of the following is least likely to cause xenophobia? a. Scarcity of resources b. Unemployment c. Prosperity d. Social insecurity e. Rising inflation

Q: What is xenophobia? a. Fear of anything strange or foreign b. Belief that all cultures are of value c. Fear of change d. Reluctance to live a multicultural society e. Inability to learn a foreign language

Q: If a farmer leaves his land behind and comes to the city to seek work, this is classified as which type of migration? a. External b. Internal c. Interstate d. Civil e. National

Q: One of the consequences of the development of global culture has been a. the disappearance of differences between people. b. reduction in the possibility of war. c. a resurgence of separatist movements. d. the replacement of traditional cultures by more adaptive, modern cultures. e. reduction in the number of anthropologists.

Q: Of all the world's states, ____ is one of the very few where pluralism really has worked out to the satisfaction of all parties to the arrangement. a. the United States b. Canada c. Switzerland d. France e. Australia

Q: In the United States, there are _____ different ethnic groups within its borders (in addition to hundreds of federally recognized American Indians). a. 1,118 b. 406 c. 237 d. 120 e. 76

Q: Pluralistic societies have a tendency to fragment along the lines of which type of differences? a. Culinary b. Linguistic c. Institutional d. Kinship e. Economic

Q: Multiculturalism involves all of the following except: a. it is based on mutual respect and tolerance for cultural differences. b. it accepts the rights of others to express their views. c. it endorses the reciprocal responsibility of all citizens to accept the rights of others. d. it asserts the value of different cultures coexisting within a single country. e. it exists without ethnocentrism or discrimination.

Q: The term _____ refers to the public policy for managing cultural diversity in a multi-ethnic society. This policy stresses mutual respect and tolerance for cultural differences within a country's borders. a. multiculturalism b. anti-ethnocentrism c. international ecumenism d. nationalization e. ethnonationalism

Q: The one thing that all pluralistic states, past and present, irrespective of other differences among them, share is a tendency a. to grow beyond their capacity to maintain their society. b. to fragment. c. to stagnate. d. toward the development of a dictatorship. e. toward the development of a democracy.