Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. The article talks about two forces--the top-down push of corporate convergence and
the bottom-up pull of grassroots convergence. These forces intersect to produce what
might be called global convergence, the unidirectional flow of consumer goods around
the country.
2. Toffler describes the age of prosumption as the arrival of a new form of political and
capitalistic autocracy, class-determined work, power-dependent labor, centralized
production, and government-focused production.
3. In the registers of emotion and affect, Asian American youth also work through and
against the specter of the model minority as a prescriptive racial fiction. Throughout its
popular cultural history, Asian America has propagated the “grander passions” of anger,
rage, and shame.
4. According to authors, prior research demonstrates that people of color are not
commonly perceived as a possible threat to society and that Latino immigrants are not
an exception.
1. false
2. false
3. true
4. false
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