Culture and Community

What is a diaspora?

• A measurement of the area of land or water required to provide a person (or society) with the energy, food and resources they need to live and to also absorb their wastes.

• A large number of people from the same country who have since moved out to places all over the world.

• An attempt by individual consumers and supermarkets to reduce the economic unfairness of globalisation, often using Fairtrade Foundation’s certification system.

• The growing interdependence of countries worldwide through the increasing volume and variety of cross‑border transactions in goods, services and money. There are broader social and cultural dimensions of globalisation too.

Which organisation supports refugees?

• WHO

• UNHCR

• UNICEF

• ECHR

UNICEF supports who?

• Farmers

• Environmentalists

• Educators

• Children

Choose the reason why learning Chinese has become more popular?

• China is one of the biggest producers of goods

• India is becoming more popular

• Food from around the world has been embraced

• Time it takes to get to China

Why did European languages, historically, become widely spoken around the world?

• Colonialism

• Tourism

• Globalisation

• The internet

How has the paralympics helped to change social attitudes towards disabilities?

• Changed mindets of what disabled people can and cannot do

• Changed how athletes competed in the olympics

• Made disabled people compete

• Showed able bodied athletes that there was just one way to play

A country often becomes an emerging economy because?

• It is buying more from other countries

• It has more people working in tourism

• The sea level is falling

• It has rapid industrialisation

Economic growth happens when...

• A country has increased its ability to produce goods

• A country has increased the number of people employed

• A country has increased the amount of food people buy

• A country has built more houses for people to live in

Choose the issue associated with cultural change in emerging economies.

• Strengthens local culture and identity

• Positive mindeset changes that work with the exsisting culture

• Loss of national/local businesses

• Gains in culture

Why does a lack of education limit economic growth

• People have lots of skills that can be used

• People can be sick more and not be able to work

• Lead to lower life expectancy

• Leads to unskilled, low paid jobs