JS6-U56-D3 - Video Questions

Is globalization a very modern phenomenon?

HINT: remember the example of Inuit people?

• Yes

• No

Because of globalization, the Inuit people could...

• live in the Eastern Arctic of North America.

• gain wood to use for different purposes.

• acquire soapstone from the Southern Aboriginal people.

• make a lot of carvings and sculptures using wood.

Walmart, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola are called ……………. companies, or multinational companies.

• conglomerate

• Atlantic

• transnational

• traditional

These companies spread out their manufacturing plants around the world so that they can ……………….. (produce in large numbers) their products.

• reproduce

• acquire

• complete

• mass-produce

The invention of …………………... could be said to have led to faster transportation of goods.

• containers

• boxes

• cars

• donkeys

One downside of globalization in trading is income inequality, which means ...

• the profit mostly goes to the local governments.

• the profit mostly goes to the employees.

• the profit mostly goes to the rich countries’ governments.

• the profit mostly goes to the companies.

Cultural Globalization refers to the global sharing of ideas, meanings, and ……………………., which improves connections between cultures.

• values

• traditions

• language

• food

An example of the foods that have been popularized around the world could be... (check all that apply)

• Coca-Cola

• burgers

• pizza

• fish

Because these foods are widely available, people nowadays tend to...

• cook and eat traditional food at home.

• buy traditional food from shops.

• cook and eat the previously foreign food (ex: burgers) at home.

• eat out or buy their food from shops.

Trading of clothing leads to the fact that people from …………………….cultures now wear similar clothes. This is an example of homogenization.

• the same

• different

• opposite

• opposing