In the world as a whole, about how many men and women are illiterate?
a. 80,000
b. 8 million
c. 800 million
d. 8 billion
(Answer: c)
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
When wealthy and powerful individuals and corporations make decisions that serve their best interests while casting aside millions of the world's people who are deprived of life's most basic and important necessities, they create
a. artificial scarcity. b. food waste. c. food loss. d. social stratification.
Which of the following is an element of postcolonial thought?
a. The focus on contemporary colonialism overlooks the egregious atrocities of the past. b. The roles of culture, knowledge, and representation have been overemphasized in the construction of the colonial world and its inhabitants. c. The West was unable to create an image of itself through encounters with colonized peoples. d. Just as postmodernist call for; the largely Western, taken-for-granted knowledge needs deconstructed.
A feminist theoretical analysis of language in the U.S. suggests that cultural patterns support ________
a. gender inequality. b. gender equality. c. a capitalist economy. d. the family system.