The Contemporary World 2020

UNIT IV A WORLD OF IDEAS

Unit Test:
J. Identification. Answer the following item by supplying the correct answer on
the blank.

Evolution of writing 1.This is a syllabary and alphabet illustrates the development of information
processing to deal with larger amounts of data in ever greater abstraction.

Media globalization 2.This refers to how most national media systems have become more
internationalized, becoming more open to outside influences, both in their
content and in their ownership and control.

Electronic media 3.They may include television, radio, internet, fax, CD-ROMs, DVD, and any
other medium that requires electricity or digital encoding of information.

Computer 4.This is considered the most important media

influencing
globalization.

Writing 5.This is humankind’s principal technology for collecting, manipulating,

storing, retrieving, communicating and disseminating information.

Global village 6.This is a term that expresses the idea that people throughout the world are
interconnected through the use of new media technologies.

Marshall MacLuhan 7.Who coined the term global village?

World music 8.This is defined as the umbrella category which various types of traditional
and non Western music are produced for Western consumption.

Human speech 9.Of all forms of media, this is considered the oldest and most enduring.

Printing press 10.This is a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed
matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers.
K. True or False. Identify whether the statement is correct or not. Write True if it is
correct, False if not. Underline the what makes the statement incorrect, then
provide the corrections. (2 points each)

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True 1.Written and orderly arrangement of documents pertaining to religious, cultural,

economic and religious practices are done through script for dissemination to
other places.

False, television 2.The introduction of cellphones was a defining moment in

globalization.
False, travels 3.Lands and culture were learned by people through rituals.
False, contrast 4.The term electronic media is often used in reference to print media.
True 5.Music participates in the reinforcing of boundaries of
culture and identity.
True 6.On going globalization processes such as economic, political, and cultural are
revolutionized by a host of new media in the beginning of the 19th century.
True 7.The change in popular music is not the outcome of globalization but rather
popular music industry is a part of globalization phenomena.
True 8.In the 20th century, the only available mass media in remote villages was the
radio while film was soon developed as an artistic medium for great cultural
expression.
True 9.Human ability to move from one place to another and to adapt to a new and
different environment are facilitated by the sharing of information of other
peoples.

True 10.The following are the companies involved in globalization:

Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook.

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UNIT V GLOBAL POPULATION AND MOBILITY

Unit Test:
A. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer.
_____A_____ 1.Forced international migration has historically occurred for two main cultural
reasons

a. slavery and political instability

b. poverty and absence of legal protection
c. lack of income and environmental threat
d. employment and education

_____D_____ 2.According to European Commission, which of the following is greatly affected by

climate change?

a. agriculture b. environment c. economy d. migration

_____D____ 3.The following are the contributions of remittance to economic growth, except:

a.contributes to foreign exchange earnings

b.improves sending countries’ credit worthiness
c. expands access to international capital markets
d. serves as savings in financial institutions

_____B____ 4. Which of the following acts as push factor for migration in a nation state?

a. lack of political rights and prevalent exploitation of a particular group or community

b. environmental threat and agricultural disruption
c. lack of political protection and resurgence of military elements
d. employment opportunities and educational grants

_____C____ 5.In contemporary time, the following are considered to be the major sociopolitical
factors of migration, except:

a.situation of war c. political conflict

b.oppression d. lack of socio-political rights

_____C____ 6.In conflict or post–conflict situations, remittances can be crucial to the following,
except:

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a.survival b. sustenance c. debt d. reconstruction

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 A 7. Forced international migration persists because of political instability
resulting from;
a. cultural diversity b. political war c. sovereignty d. cross-border conflict

A 8. This term refers to people moving from one area to another within one
country.
a. internal migrants b. immigrants c. refugees d. petitioned

A 9. This term refers to people crossing the borders of one country to another.
a. refugees b. petitioned c. international migrants d. internal migrants

D 10.This refers to persons or groups of persons who, for compelling reasons of

sudden or progressive changes in the environment are obliged to leave their habitual homes,
either temporarily or permanently.
a. internal migrants
b. international migrants
c. immigrants
d. environmental migrants

C 11.This term refers to persons of groups of person returning to their country of

origin after having been international migrants in another country.
a. Immigrants b. international migrants c. returning migrants d.internal migrants

D 12.This term refers to the migration of people into a country in violation of the
immigration laws of the country.
a.illegal migration b. internal migration c. international migration d. migration law

A 13.Dependency ratios started to disappear due to

a. decline in global birth rate c. increased rate in migration
b. increase in mortality rate d. decline in old age structure

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 A 14. During the 19th century, these two regions had an increased in share in
the world’s population, from 22.0 percent to 33.0 percent

a. Europe and West b. US and Japan c. Africa and China d. Philippines and India
D 15. Which is NOT true about global cities?
a.important nodes in a variety of global networks
b.major beneficiaries of globalization
c. with populations of over 5 million
d. with high influx of immigrants

B. Modified True or False. Identify whether the statement is correct or not. Write True if it is
corect, False if not. Modify the word or phrase that makes it incorrect.
True 1. Specialized organizations play a major role in the
transmission of remittances.
True 2.The rise of internationalization of capital accelerates the formation of global
cities.
True 3.In some part of the world, political instability is responsible for migration of
people.
True 4.According to World Migration Report in 2018, most international migrants in
2015 were of working age between 20 to 64.
True 5.Return migration has always put impacts on, at various levels, of economy as
well as society in whole.
False, local 6.Ecological change assumes a contributing part in influencing populace
movement, especially on international level.
True 7. Birth rate decline can also be caused by a transition in values; not just because
of the availability of contraceptives.

False, northern 8.The birth rate decline in developed countries started in the late 19th century
in western Europe.

True 9. Death rates may remain consistently low or increase slightly due to increases in
lifestyle diseases.

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False, death 10. Unless the society develops new technologies to increase food production ,
any fluctuations in birth rates are soon matched by mortality rates.
False, 20th 11. It was only in the 18th century that mortality decline in Africa and Asia, with the
exemption of Japan.
False, triple 12. The United Nations (UN) anticipates the population growth will double
between 2011 and 2100 in high-fertility countries, which are currently concentrated in sub-
Saharan Africa.

True 13. Use of contraception may not always be attributed to decline in birth rate.

True 14. World cities are categorized as such based on the global reach of
organization found in them.
False, social conflict 15. Ecological change forces millions of human creature to leave their
homes and even their homeland every year.

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 UNIT VI TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE WORLD

Unit Test:
A. Matching Type. Match the items in column with those in column B. Write the letter before
the number.

Column A Column B
C 1. depredation a. increased birth rates
D 2. waste disposal catastrophe b. loss of biodiversity
A 3. overpopulation c. dumping of urban waste; defiling of
sea and rivers by oil spills
E 4. extinction of particular species
d. excessive amount of waste unloaded
B 5. massive deforestation
in landfills
H 6. deadly acid rain
e. Destruction of million-year-old
I 7. water pollution ecosystem

F 8. ozone layer depletion f. CFC’s in the atmosphere

J 9. oxygen reduction in atmosphere g. genetic modification in food

production
G 10. radical food system alteration
h. fossil fuel combustion; massive
rotting of vegetables filling up garbage
dumps
i. industrial and community waste
residues seeping into underground water
tables, rivers and seas
j. deforestation

B. Completion Type. Fill the blanks with word or phrase to complete the
statement.

1.The global food security situation and outlook remains delicately imbalanced amid surplus
food production and the prevalence of hunger.

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2.Food production outpaced food demand over the past 50 years due to expansion in crop
area and irrigation.
3. Climate change poses complex challenges in terms of increased variability and risk for food
producers and the energy and water sectors.
4.There is a need to look beyond agriculture and invest in affordable and suitable farm
technologies if the problem of food insecurity is to be addressed in a sustainable manner.
5. Proactive interventions and policies for tackling food security are discussed which include
issues such as agriculture for development, ecosystem services from agriculture, and gender
mainstreaming.
6. Demand for food will be 60% greater than it is today and the challenge of food security
requires the world to feed 9 billion people by 2050.
7. Global food security means delivering sufficient food to the entire world population.
8. The security of food also means the sustainability of society such as population growth,
climate change, water scarcity, and agriculture.
9.The closest aspect of human life associated with food security is the environment.
10. A major environmental problem is the destruction of natural habitats, particularly through
deforestation.
11.Decline in water supply is caused by degradation of soil or desertification
12. Virtual water is the use up of water to produce consumer products.
13.One of the models and agenda being pushed by different organizations to address the issue
of global food security is through sustainability.
14.The destruction of the water ecosystem may lead to the creation of climate refugees ,
people who are forced to migrate due to lack of access to wated due to flooding.
15.Instead of dealing with the causes of global warming, there is some interest in
“technological fixes” such as geoengineering.

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 UNIT VI GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

Unit Test
A. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
D 1. Both rights and obligations link the individual to the
a. family b. community c. church d. state
A 2. Opponents of globalization blame the so-called
a. Westernization b. human capitalism c. ASEAN integration d. none of these
B 3. This cyberpublic was formed as a protest against the violence, discrimination,
and hatred experienced by Chinese residents in Indonesia after the 1997 Asian financial crisis
a.World Social Forum b. Global Huaren c. Amnesty International d.Taliban
A 4. Resistance to globalization has the following attributes except
a. democratic b. complex c. contradictory d. ambiguous
D 5. In political organization, increased transparency has been aided by various
mechanism such as the following except
a.transnational justice systems c. civil society
b. international tribunals d. human amnesty

B 6.This approach to global economic resistance involves the systematic

government intervention in foreign trade through tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
a. Free trade b. Trade protectionism c. Fair trade d. none of these
A 7. A significant influence on WSF has been that of cyberactivism, which is based
on
a. cultural logic of networking and virtual movements
b. citizen’s initiatives and community action groups
c. transnational justice systems and international tribunals
d. political movements and global alliances

B 8. This approach to global economic resistance aims at a moral and equitable

global economic system whereby price is negotiated transparently by both producers and
consumers.
a. Trade protectionism b. Free trade c. Fair trade d. none of these

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 A 9. World Social Forum (WSF) is an annual meeting of civil society organizations
that aims to

a. address lack of democracy in economic and political affairs

b. raise awareness on the condition of those in the marginalized societies
c. proposes alternatives for the anti-globalization and altermundo activists
d. All of these

A 10. According to van Peski, global citizenship is a moral and ethical

disposition that

a.guides the understanding of individuals or groups of local and global contexts

b. provides awareness on the rights and responsibilities of a global citizen
c.reminds individuals or groups of locals of their relative responsibilities within various
communities
d.entails rights and obligations

B. Modified True or False. Identify whether the statement is correct or not. Write True if it is
correct, False if not. Modify the word or phrase that makes it incorrect.
True 1.Increasing aid is the only measure that is required to help the bottom billion.
False, reduction and these people 2. Increased in trade barriers would reduce the economic
marginalization of the bottom billion and their nations.
True 3.Trade protectionism involves the systematic government intervention in foreign
trade through tariffs and non-tariff barriers.
True 4.When it comes to dealing with political globalization, increased accountability and
transparency are the key issues.
False, hinders 5.The diversity of elements involved in WSF allows for the development of
concrete political proposals.
True 6. International norms and standards can be adapted to provide the needs of the
bottom billion.
True 7.The idea of global citizenship demands the creation of rights and obligations.
True 8.The dynamics of globalization demands the efforts of the whole array of
intergovernmental organizations.

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False, does not lie 9.Fulfilling the promises of globalization and the solution to the problems of
the contemporary world lies on single entity or individual.
True 10.Reduction of trade barriers would also reduce the economic marginalization of
these people and their nations.

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