TV programming that is culturally alien tends to outperform native programming when the alien programming comes from the United States, Great Britain, or France
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: False
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Which of the following describes the form of culture change known as diffusion?
A) Many of the foods we eat, such as pasta and chicken, were introduced to us through contact with different cultures around the world. B) James Hargreaves developed the spinning jenny to increase the efficiency of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. C) Your parents teach you the proper way to speak to your elders. D) Medical experiments and discoveries lead to the cure for an epidemic disease such as polio.
What is the origin of capoeira? a. Capoeira originated as a way of adapting to an oppressed environment in which there was almost no otheroutlet for frustration and anger
b. Capoeira originated among the oppressed slaves and was a way of telling their history as entertainment to theslave owners. c. Capoeira emerged out of the Carnivale tradition and is a European-Afro-Brasileiro dance style. d. Capoeira originated with the upper classes of slave owners who brought this dance form from Portugal andthen combined it with the slave traditions in Brazil. e. Capoeira originated in West Africa and was imported with slavery to Brazil.
Governments balance the competing demands of citizens and corporations by doing all BUT ONE of the following:
a) Pay lip service to social, political, and environmental concerns by emphasizing values such as democracy and freedom, but take little action. b) Seek to identify government or private entities to make new policy. c) Free corporations and the mass media to spin events and news to allay public fears and interests. d) Displace regulatory power onto unelected and largely remote global governance institutions.
Every language has a limited number of sounds and rules for combining them to create units of meaning. This characteristic of language is called
a. productivity. b. arbitrariness. c. discreteness. d. displacement.