How would you best describe culture shock?
What will be an ideal response?
It is feelings of alienation and helplessness that result from rapid immersion in a new and different culture.
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Incest is considered a violation of rules primarily by members of a ________ group
a. kin b. social c. cultural d. biological
During the second and third millennia B.C., the inhabitants of Mesopotamia were:
A. dominated by a single empire centered at Uruk. B. subdivided politically into a series of city-states. C. practitioners of scapulimancy. D. dependent on a diet of millet and pig.
Which of the below is FALSE regarding the relationship between malaria and the HbS allele?
a. There is no geographic correlation between the distribution of the HbS allele and malaria. b. Heterozygotes have greater resistance to malaria than homozygous individuals. c. The malarial parasite does not reproduce very well in the red blood cells of heterozygotes. d. Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite. e. The HbS mutation probably occurs occasionally in all human populations.
Iranian women’s abandonment and subsequent return to the veil and more traditional female roles illustrates that
a. the status of women in societies is not static. b. political change seldom changes women’s roles. c. men are universally dominant. d. purdah has no place in the modern world. e. world politics has enormous effect on what women choose to do.