Yr9 Rise of East Asia

Question 1

Learn the flags

Answer 1

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Question 2

What are some positive points of sweatshops?

Answer 2

Sweatshops are creating jobs in areas with low employment and generating money for the economy. Sweatshops provide employment for women instead of being married off. Sweatshops make product across the world significantly cheaper. Sweatshops are commonly higher-paid than alternatives like farming.

Question 3

What are some negatives of sweatshops?

Answer 3

Sweatshops mistreat workers by enforcing long hours in an unhealthy environment. Sweatshops dock pay for not meeting unreasonable quotas. Sweatshops all over the world are estimated to have forced 250 million children to work factories. Sweatshops are know for repeated and un-policed sexual, physical and verbal abuse. Sweatshops commonly fire women as soon as they test pregnant, which is a human rights abuse.

Question 4

What two quotes from china blue?

Answer 4

“I’m excited because my friends have gone to them[sweatshops]”. “In one hour I can make about half a yuan(about 6 cents USD)”.

Question 5

Define globalization.

Answer 5

The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 6

What is the fertility rate of India?

Answer 6

2.50

Question 7

What is the fertility rate of Banglesish?

Answer 7

2.21

Question 8

What is the fertility rate of China?

Answer 8

1.66

Question 9

What is the fertility rate of Japan?

Answer 9

1.41

Question 10

What is the fertility rate of South Korea?

Answer 10

1.30

Question 11

What is the fertility rate of Singapore?

Answer 11

1.29

Question 12

Give an example of why sweatshops are good.

Answer 12

Sweatshops create opportunities for women to be employed. Women make up 85-90% of sweatshop workers. This gives them an opportunity to earn money instead of being married off.

Question 13

Give an example of why sweatshops are bad.

Answer 13

Sweatshops have terrible health and safety standards conditions for the workers. For example, the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in 2013, which resulted in 1,130 deaths of sweatshop workers was caused by negligence to the building code.

Question 14

What is the name of the flag with two triangles on it?

Answer 14

Nepal.

Question 15

What is the name of another family planning policy?

Answer 15

Singapore’s baby bonus policy

Question 16

When did China’s one child policy begin?

Answer 16

1979