Being Part of a Globalised World (Issue 3) quiz: O-Level Social Studies (SEAB 2261) quiz

Is harmony achievable in a diverse society?

Working for the good of society: whose responsibility is it?

What does it mean to be a citizen?

How can we respond to globalisation?

The growing connection and interdependence between countries through the movement of goods, people, ideas and technology

The closing of a country's borders

A policy of refusing all trade

The removal of all foreign influence

Because Singapore has huge natural resources

Because Singapore is small with no natural resources and a small market, so it depends on trade, investment and talent from abroad

Because Singapore has a very large domestic market

Because Singapore wants to avoid the world

Vulnerability to global downturns

Widening inequality

Growth, jobs and access to larger markets through trade and investment

Intense competition for jobs

Access to foreign investment

A stronger role as a global hub

More job opportunities from trade

Vulnerability to global downturns that Singapore cannot control

That the dominance of foreign culture may weaken local identity

That it brings no new culture at all

That it makes everyone identical instantly

That it bans foreign films

The loss of all local traditions

Exposure to new cultures that can enrich life and broaden perspectives

A ban on travel

The end of all foreign ideas

Because threats stay neatly within one country

Because globalisation removes all threats

Because greater movement of people, goods and data lets threats such as terrorism, disease and cyber attacks cross borders

Because borders become impossible to cross

Because threats only affect large countries

Because threats are imaginary

Because every country has identical defences

Because the threats move with global flows of people, goods and data and do not stop at one border

Globalisation

Governance

Diversity

Citizenship

Because the risks do not exist

Because it has no choice if it wants to prosper, given its small size and lack of resources

Because it dislikes economic growth

Because it has a self-sufficient economy

As purely beneficial

As purely harmful

As bringing both benefits and costs that must be weighed

As having no impact

Only as the structured-response question

It cannot be examined

Only as the source-based case study

As either the Section A case study or the Section B structured-response question, but not both in one paper

Stating a clear comparison and supporting it with matched evidence from both sources

Summarising each source separately

Giving your own opinion of globalisation

Describing only one source