Global Politics and Consumption Concepts

Why was the United Nations founded?

• To ensure that Germany would never become powerful again
• To ensure that another Holocaust could never happen
• To try and preserve peace and international cooperation
• To protect Europe against Russia

One significant result of the electronic information age is that

• English has become the primary language of global communications.

• politically repressive regimes such as that of China are trying to control the Internet.

• the gulf between the technological haves and have-nots has widened.

• All these answers are correct.

The purpose of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was to

• regulate currency rates.

• attract emerging economies into trade alliances with the United States.

• eliminate barriers to free trade.

• set fair labor standards for the industrialized nations.

Which of the following statements is NOT true of modern global consumption?

• Consumption becomes a means of self-expression as well as a source of personal identity.

• Modern consumption is shaped by wants and desires rather than by needs or necessities.

• Global consumption is entirely one way: the tastes of the United States are imposed on the rest of the world.

• Global consumerism threatens local and indigenous cultures.

What international organization serves as the Southeast Asia equivalent to the EU?

• NATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Mercosur

• ASEAN

Based on the image, where is it evident that the Global conflicts affected popular culture?

• Video Games

• Film

• Art

• Socialist Realism

Globalization

• A missile designed to be fired from long-range.

• The political movements in Middle Eastern countries at the beginning of the 21st century to overthrow the dictators’ regimes controlling their countries

• The process of increased connectedness of people all over the world.

• Air pollution caused by human activity that may contribute to global warming

European Union (EU)

• An agreement made between nations to NOT charge import fees on one another’s goods.

• The political association of European nations to build cooperation and remain economically competitive in the 21st century.

• An agreement made between nations to charge import fees on one another’s goods

• The primary international policy-making body of the 21st century.

United Nations (UN)

• An agreement made between nations to NOT charge import fees on one another’s goods

• The political association of European nations to build cooperation and remain economically competitive in the 21st century.

• An agreement made between nations to charge import fees on one another’s goods

• The primary international policy-making body of the 21st century.

PART OF THE MENU BOARD OF A SUBWAY© RESTAURANT IN INDIA, CIRCA 2018

Which of the following aspects of the historical situation in India at the beginning of the twenty-first century is most significant in understanding the menu items illustrated in the image?

• The great wealth of India’s new urban middle classes

• The strength of India’s currency, the rupee

• The growing resistance against industrial agriculture in Third World countries

• The increasing globalization of consumer culture