globalisation EQ2

Question 1

Crime in Glasgow?

Answer 1

highest rates of murder per population size in Europe

Question 2

Dereliction in Glasgow?

Answer 2

1000 hectares of unused land

Question 3

Contamination in Glasgow?

Answer 3

Carcinogenic Chromium found in river Clyde

Question 4

De-population in Glasgow?

Answer 4

1/3 of population left between 1961-81, most were young

Question 5

Unemployment in Glasgow?

Answer 5

highest rates in Scotland

Question 6

Cultural erosion in Nigeria?

Answer 6

100 languages lost over 100 years

Question 7

Examples of Westernisation?

Answer 7

-paralympic games
-changing diets in Japan
-korowai tribe
-Disneyfication (consumerism?)

Question 8

Restriction of Globalisation?

Answer 8

FRANCE
-supports French language, subsidies to French films
NIGERIA
-writer exposed oil spillages in Nigeria on a global scale, was executed
CHINA
-great firewall of China blocks people accessing BBC or Facebook, only allows 34 foreign films a year