Which of the following statements about the globalization of the economy is FALSE?
a. Globalization of economic activities provides lower-cost goods for consumers in advanced industrial nations.
b. Culture wars have arisen as a result of the social problems caused by globalization, and have made it difficult to arrive at ways to solve social problems.
c. Economic globalization takes jobs away from workers in the world's wealthier nations.
d. Globalization of economic activities provides higher-cost goods for consumers in advanced nations because of increased production and transportation costs.
e. Technology-dependent globalization has facilitated new forms of crime (such as identity theft) and social problems, such as the spread of new diseases.
Question 2
The two tendencies on the part of people that usually result in prejudice against the subordinate group are the tendencies to __________.
a. be tentative and to be uneducated
b. rationalize discrimination and to be ethnocentric
c. hate and to be ignorant
d. accumulate wealth and to deny wealth to others
e. despise others and to do something about it
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