PrepTest 132 - Section 3 - Passage 3 - Question 18

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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

Author's critique · Other perspective is based on little or no research

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

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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.

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?

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Second question to examine · How do individual viewers behave?

Need to take into account diversity of responses and experiences.

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We need to find the most strongly supported conclusion about the subjects of the anthropological study in P2. We know that they have access to imported media but still enjoy watching domestically made dramas on a day-to-day basis. We also know that watching those dramas on a day-to-day basis is analogous to oral poetry, which the residents perform publicly to recount daily events. The right answer will be a conclusion that follows from these facts.

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Ant-supported. The author uses the study in P2 as an example of how imported TV does not dominate or replace domestic TV.

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Unsupported. The author states that domestic TV dramas can serve a similar function to oral poetry, but doesn’t suggest that the subjects of the study have, or will develop, any preference for one over the other. It’s possible they enjoy both and will continue to enjoy both.

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Unsupported. The author states that domestic TV dramas can serve a similar function to oral poetry, but doesn’t suggest that TV is, or would be, any substitute for oral poetry.

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Anti-supported. They have access to imported ones.

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Strongly supported. For these viewers, watching TV is similar to oral poetry specifically because viewers enjoy following the dramas from day to day. This suggests that viewers also enjoy following oral poetry from day to day, meaning they enjoy TV and oral poetry for at least one shared reason.

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