PT132.S3.P3.Q17

PrepTest 132 - Section 3 - Passage 3 - Question 17

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P1

Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert that the broadcasting in developing nations of television programs produced by industrialized countries amounts to cultural imperialism: the phenomenon of one culture's productions overwhelming another's, to the detriment of the flourishing of the latter. ███

Other perspective · Showing TV programs from industrialized countries to developing nations is cultural imperialism
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Assumption of other perspective · Imported TV shows always dominate over domestic ones, and are always harmful to domestic culture
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Author's critique · Other perspective is based on little or no research
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Concession and clarification · Dominance is a risk, but assumption that imported always dominates is unsupported or anti-supported
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Support for author · Imported programs rarely harm domestic ones, and aren't always more popular
P2

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Author's perspective · Role of TV in developing nations is different from what others think
One study of viewing habits showed popularity of certain domestic productions.
P3

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Recommendation · Need to use approach of anthropologist to study impact of external cultural influences
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First question to examine · What's best model for relationship between imported and domestic productions?
It's not dominance. Could it be that domestic absorbs imported? Or that domestic and imported fuse only under certain conditions?
P4

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Second question to examine · How do individual viewers behave?
Need to take into account diversity of responses and experiences.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
Problem-analysis
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17.

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a

provide to international ██████████████ ███████████ █ █████ ██ ████████ █████████████

The author does propose some possible models of cultural relationships, but not until P3. The study in P2 simply describes the behavior of one specific community. It’s a concrete example, whereas a model would be a broader theory.

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b

describe to international ██████████████ ███████████ ███ ████ ██ ██████████ █████ ████████

P2 doesn’t describe any ways of conducting research. It simply presents the findings of some research—findings that contradict the views of the comms specialists.

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c

highlight the flaws ██ █ ███████ █████ █████████ ██ █████████████ ██████████████ ███████████

The author doesn’t refer to any studies—flawed or otherwise—conducted by comms specialists. In fact, she points out that the comms specialists suffer from a lack of studies.

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d

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The author makes this purpose clear in the first sentence of P2: the comms specialists are wrong about their “cultural imperialism” theory.

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e

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The author makes this claim much later, in P4. The study in P2 doesn’t offer any support for this claim, because that study has nothing to say about individual viewing habits; it’s all about general viewing habits.

9%

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