Take-home Mid-term Exam, Globalization and Culture 2013

Name________________________________________ Student No.__________________

Answer the following 8 questions, each with a 1-1 1/2 page answer. Include in each
of your answers quotations or citations from many of the course readings, using
proper anthropological form in your citations (for example, Yang 1998: 34); feel free
to use other readings or web sources as well, but be sure to cite them. (You are
welcome to use Wikipedia, but dont rely on it too much.) The end of your
examination should have a list of all the references you have cited or quoted from in
your paper. Please submit to Veriguide. Good luck! This is due Monday, April 8.
1) Why did Western Europe develop science and industry and colonize the rest of the world,
instead of some other society such as China, or the Aztecs? Discuss a range of theories as
to why Western Europe could do this.
2) Discuss the situation of asylum seekers in Hong Kong.
3) Why are some nations today rich and others poor? Briefly outline some of the reasons we have
read about and discussed.
4) What are the effects of McDonalds upon East Asian Societies, according to James
Watson?
5)Tourism entails the selling of culture. What does this mean? Does tourism destroy
traditional cultures or save traditional cultures?
6) Is global consumption homogenizing the world? Discuss, using class readings.
7) What is low-end globalization?
8) Discuss fatness and thinness in the context of globalization.