Exam 12: The Demographic and Cultural Dimensions of Globalization

Virtuality refers to computer technology that creates an imaginary picture of actual things, people, and experiences.

Some countries such as Russia and China have quarantined travelers from countries suffering from a high number of persons infected with the H1N1 virus.

The ____________________ is a popular image used to describe the growth of awareness that all people share a common fate, stemming from a macro perspective that the world is an integrated and interdependent whole.

Evidence strongly suggests that rapid population growth will help eliminate domestic strife and environmental degradation.

Which of the following are innovations of information technology that constitute new and different forms of communication?

Fertility rate is defined as

Some hypothesize that a global flu pandemic ranks higher than a major terrorist attack, even one involving weapons of mass destruction.

A severe reduction in the world's population comes from xenophobia.

Population growth in the Global North ___________.

The WTO's World Telecom Pact ended government and private telecommunication monopolies in many states.

Which country has begun a protracted effort to encourage marriage and childbearing by offering financial incentives to women who have multiple children?

The "age of migration" means that many more people are crossing borders compared to years past. Many are in search of economic opportunity whereas others are fleeing persecution or genocide or ethnic cleansing. Write an describing the difficulties countries that receive large numbers of these immigrants experience.

Youth bulges are directly linked to greater propensity for domestic armed conflict.

Which of the following significantly contributes to the globalization process?

Cosmopolitan is an outlook that values viewing the entire world as the best unit for governance and personal identity, as opposed to other polities such as one local city.

The extermination of an ethnic minority group by a state is known as _________ .

_____________________ is the study of population changes, their sources, and their impact.

The ability of the media to identify and publicize issues, thus determining the problems that receive attention by governments and the public is called __________ .

The "demographic divide" results from the fact that population growth is much higher in the Global South than in the North.

Two disadvantages of the recent global communications explosion are _____ and _______.