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
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
17.
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Question Type
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
The author’s purpose in discussing the study is stated at the outset: it shows that the comms specialists are wrong about their “cultural imperialism” theory.
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.
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.
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.
d
cite evidence that ███████████ ██████ ████ ██ █████████████ ██████████████ ███████████
The author makes this purpose clear in the first sentence of P2: the comms specialists are wrong about their “cultural imperialism” theory.
e
support the claim ████ █████████████ ██████████████ ███████████ ████ ██ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ██████ ████ ███████
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.
Difficulty
70% of people who answer get this correct
This is a moderately difficult question.
It is somewhat easier than other questions in this passage.
CURVE
Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right
25%131
150
75%169
Analysis
Purpose in context (of word, phrase, or idea)
Structure
Critique or debate
Humanities
Problem-analysis
Answer Popularity
PopularityAvg. score
a
5%
161
b
14%
165
c
3%
158
d
70%
166
e
9%
161
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