Final

Question 1

G-20

Answer 1

the Group of Twenty Finance Minsters and Central Bank Governors representing leading industrial and emerging market countries. Forum for building support for common approaches to meet the world’s financial challenges

Question 2

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Answer 2

an arrangement designed to expand cross-border trade and investment signed by Canada Mexico, and the United States in 1994.

Question 3

Direct Investment

Answer 3

the acquisition of corporate assets through the purchase of property, a plant, or equipment

Question 4

transnational corporations

Answer 4

companies that operate on a global scale with integrated operations across regions and countries

Question 5

Intellectual property rights (IPRs)

Answer 5

patents, copyrights, and trademarks extended to individuals and organizations to protect their ownership of works generated through their original ideas

Question 6

culture

Answer 6

the set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features of society or a social group, that encompasses, not only art and literature, but lifestyles ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs

Question 7

culture shock

Answer 7

a physical and psychological response to cultural differences when traveling away from hiome

Question 8

assimilation

Answer 8

the submerging of cultural differences into a broader, dominant culture

Question 9

cultural imperialism

Answer 9

when one culture is dominated by another culture to the point that the victimized culture is forced to change its cultural practices

Question 10

migration

Answer 10

the movement of people across borders that reshapes identities, both within states and nations, and between them

Question 11

sharia law

Answer 11

a legal system that relies on Islam and applies broadly to how Muslims should live their lives, It includes punishments for crimes that may not be acceptable universally

Question 12

ethnic conflict

Answer 12

when differences in identity are too great to reconcile within state boundaries

Question 13

genocide

Answer 13

the extreme form of ethnic cleansing, where one group seeks to deliberately kill members of anther group based solely on their national or ethnic differences

Question 14

failed state

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a nation-state whose government can no longer provide political, economic, and social stability

Question 15

glocalization

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the adaptation of local forms of expression and identity to outside influences (mcdonalds different)

Question 16

clash of civilizations

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based on book about wars will be based on cultures. western vs Islamic/Hindu/Buddhist/Japanese/Latin America

Question 17

FIFA Federation Internationale de Football Association

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has over 200 members commercialized soccer and promoted the world cup.

Question 18

An internally displaced person (IDP)

Answer 18

is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country’s borders

Question 19

Cross-cultural communication (also frequently referred to as intercultural communication, which, however, is also used in a different sense)

Answer 19

is a field of study that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures.

Question 20

fatalism vs. efficacy

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the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable verse the ability to produce a desired or intended result.

Question 21

goal vs. work orientation

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is a “disposition toward developing or demonstrating ability in achievement situations” vs. represents a kind of ‘super attitude’ towards work that constitutes a broad disposition towards certain kinds of employment.

Question 22

Nonverbal communication

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is the process of communication through sending and receiving wordless (mostly visual) cues between people.

Question 23

How many languages spoken on Earth

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6500 2000 have less than 1000 speakers

Question 24

5 most widely spoken languages

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mandarin, Spanish, English, Hindi, Arabic

Question 25

An idiom

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is a combination of words that has a figurative meaning owing to its common usage.

Question 26

dialect

Answer 26

a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group