Responses to Globalisation
A variety of forms
- Responses to rising cultural and economic globalisation took a variety of forms.
- That single sentence is the whole Key Concept, which tells you the exam wants your categorisation of the examples.
- The CED's examples: anti-IMF and anti-World Bank activism, and the advent of locally developed social media (Weibo in China).
Select both examples the CED gives.
The WTO is an institution of globalisation (9.4); the Green Belt Movement is in 9.5.
Opposing an institution
- Anti-IMF and anti-World Bank activism targets the institutions that carry globalisation's economic terms.
- The objection is usually to conditions attached to lending, not to trade as such — which is the same distinction 9.5 drew.
- So this is a response aimed at how integration is governed.
Building a locally developed platform is best described as...
It accepts the technology and rejects the dependence.
Building a local alternative
- The advent of locally developed social media is a completely different kind of response: not protest, but substitution.
- A locally built platform keeps the users, the data and the advertising revenue inside the economy that made it.
- So this response accepts the technology and rejects the dependence — which is 5.6's state-sponsored industrialisation logic in a new medium.
Which kind of response is this?
Sort each response to globalisation.
Select all four kinds of response this lesson names.
Naming all four shows you understand a variety of forms.
Building a local alternative is a response, not an absence of one. The CED lists locally developed social media beside anti-institution activism — substitution accepts the technology and rejects the dependence, which is a different strategy from protest and should be named as one.
When a Key Concept is one sentence, write the ____ before the example.
That turns two CED examples into a framework.
Four kinds you can name
- Protest against institutions. Substitution by local alternatives. Regulation by states of what crosses their borders.
- And selective adoption — taking the technology or the form while adapting its content.
- The CED supplies examples of the first two; naming all four shows you understand a variety of forms.
Both of the CED's examples accept connection but disagree about who sets its terms.
That axis is what the whole subtopic runs on.
"Various responses" wants categories
- When a Key Concept is one sentence, the exam is asking you to organise the material yourself.
- So write the category first and the example second, every time.
- That habit turns two CED examples into an answer that reads as a framework.
Two responses to the same pressure. One organises demonstrations against the terms attached to a loan. The other builds a platform that does what the foreign one did, locally owned. Neither rejects connection; they disagree about who should set its terms — and that is the axis the whole subtopic runs on.
Responses to rising cultural and economic globalisation took a variety of forms — the CED's examples are anti-IMF and anti-World Bank activism and the advent of locally developed social media. Four nameable kinds: protest, substitution, regulation and selective adoption. When a Key Concept is one sentence, write the category before the example.