Related Issue 3: Chapter 12

Question 1

What do many people living in liberal democracies do?

Answer 1

They often have a bias towards the principles liberalism. They believe that liberalism is beyond criticism

Question 2

How is Modern Liberalism viewed?

Answer 2

Modern liberalism is not usually embraced by people or groups living in liberal democracies

Question 3

What are the challenges to Modern Liberalism?

Answer 3

Environmentalism
Aboriginal Collective thought
Religious Perspectives
Religious perspective
Neo-conservatism
Postmodernism
Extremism

Question 4

What is post-modernism?

Answer 4

A movement of thought, art, and criticism that raises questions about the faith that modern liberalists have in reason and progress, and tries to get people to rethink their assumption about the meaning of life, Challenges modern life

Question 5

What does Postmodernism reject?

Answer 5

The principles of modernism and liberalism

Question 6

What are the principles of Postmodernism?

Answer 6

Science provides truths
Knowledge leads to progress
Freedom consists of obedience to laws that are based on reason
Reason and national thinking are the ultimate means of establishing truth

Question 7

What does Postmodernism argue about modernism?

Answer 7

It argues that modernism doesn’t give a process for discovering truth, it constructed governing narratives that tell us stories about modern society and provide us with ways to organize society

Question 8

What does postmodernism believe about the veil of deceit?

Answer 8

Postmodernism claims that most of us are under a veil of deceit that hides alternative ways of thinking from us

Question 9

What does Postmodernism do?

Answer 9

Asks the questions that need to be asked in any functional liberal democracy and provides opportunity to challenge the values and ideals associated with liberalism

Question 10

What s extremism?

Answer 10

Groups or individuals whose words, actions, and behaviors are not accepted by the majority of the population, and condone the use of violence

Question 11

What may extremism challenge?

Answer 11

Freedom of expression due to the nature of the comments and actions taken by extremists

Question 12

What are the economic forms of extremism?

Answer 12

Mass privatization, large cuts in social spending and deregulation of government

Question 13

What is consumerism?

Answer 13

The preoccupation of society with the acquisition of consumer goods

Question 14

How does consumerism challenge liberal principles?

Answer 14

It calls into question the viability of liberal principles as it may not necessarily lead to reasonable outcomes

Question 15

How does Alberta address issues related to consumerism?

Answer 15

Albertans have to a pay a provincial electronics recycling fee of $45 per new television and $12 for computer components

Question 16

What has the pursuit of economic freedom in liberal democracies brought?

Answer 16

Increased personal choice for consumers in some countries but the benefits are not equally distributed

Question 17

How did the wealth of resource development produced by economic liberalism affect people?

Answer 17

It did not benefit people of former colonies to the same degree as they benefited people in industrialized countries

Question 18

What were many colonized countries forced to do as a result of liberalism?

Answer 18

Many colonized countries were forced to reduce their own food production in order to grow cash crops

Question 19

What made it difficult for colonies to join world markets?

Answer 19

As they became more independent they were faced with world markets dominated by trade arrangements among liberal democracies making it difficult to participate in economic gains

Question 20

What did the difficulty of colonized countries to enter global trade lead to?

Answer 20

Greater debt and poverty on a large scale for less developed countries

Question 21

How were citizens of colonized nations treated in relation to liberalism?

Answer 21

They were not treated in ways that reflected the principles of liberalism

Question 22

What restricted the pace of development of developed nations?

Answer 22

Laws governing the ownership of property and land, access to education, and health care

Question 23

What has liberalism created in relation to treatment of countries?

Answer 23

It has allowed the unequal treatment of some countries and their citizens and left a troubling legacy on colonies