Cases of local communities using modern technology to preserve and revive their traditions
A. suggest that modern technology is always an agent of cultural imperialism.
B. are becoming more common.
C. are becoming increasingly rare, due to the ballooning cost of the technologies involved.
D. are examples of hidden ethnocide.
E. contradict Gramsci's theory of hegemony.
Answer: B
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