Q8 - Commentator: In the new century,

[mymansupa]

I'm having a hard time understanding why (B) is correct... Is it because it's a cause and effect scenario... (mo' money, mo' problems?) LOL...

[giladedelman]

Yes, in fact, I think this question was ghost-written by Sean "Puffy" Combs.

The first statement, that "only nations with all the latest electronic technology will experience great economic prosperity," can be rephrased as a conditional statement: if a nation experiences great economic prosperity, then it has all the latest electronic technology.

This is important because the stimulus goes on to tell us more about these technologically advanced countries: they'll be bombarded by images of other ways of life, which will undermine and eventually dissolve their own traditions and customs.

(B) is correct because we know that what's true of technologically advanced countries is necessarily true of countries that experience great economic prosperity. So we can infer that if a country comes to have high economic wealth, its customs and traditions will dissolve -- in other words, its cultural identity will decrease.

(A) is out of scope. The stimulus doesn't have anything to do with notions of just distribution, nor do relative levels of technological advancement between countries enter into the discussion.

(C) is out of scope because the stimulus doesn't come close to mentioning laws or legal protection.

(D) is a mess. First of all, we have no basis to say that anything is the only threat to cultural identity. Further, the argument is about electronic technology, not technical skills.

(E) is plagued with the same problem: what do technical skills and knowledge have to do with anything?

Does that answer your question?

[mymansupa]

Yes... perfect... thanks a lot "Can't stop, won't stop... eh eh eh eh."