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question 10

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Directions: Read the following and answer the questions using the tools for improving vocabulary skills. ¹When one culture's values, norms, and products become dominant and diminish the strength of another culture, the stronger culture is said to exert
Hegemony over the weaker one. In turn, a hegemonic society exerts undue power over other societies. In Europe and parts of Asia, there is a lively debate about whether the culture of the United States endangers the continued existence of local cultures. American movies and popular music, fast food, and fashions are coveted around the world. Nations with less widespread languages and less powerful cultural institutions fear that their young people will lose interest in their own cultures and embrace the values, language, and norms of Americans.
²Within the United States, too, sociologists and others worry that the powerful commercial cultural institutions that make certain types of food, music, movies, fashions, and magazines popular throughout the nation endanger the existence of unique local subcultures. These critics fear that regional differences are decreasing and being replaced by a homogeneous culture that lacks diversity.
-adapted from Kornblum, Sociology in a Changing World , pp. 62-63
Select a word below that could substitute for the word homogenous in the last sentence of the passage.

• A) different
• B) exciting
• C) uniform
• D) varied

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Definitions:

Accounts Receivable

Money owed to a business by its clients for goods or services delivered but for which payment has not yet been received.

Credit

An accounting entry that increases the balance of liabilities and equity accounts, and decreases the balance of assets accounts. It is also the provision of resources (such as money) by one party to another with the expectation of repayment.

Accrued Interest

Interest that has accumulated over a period but has not yet been paid or officially recorded.

Maturity Date

The date on which a financial instrument, such as a bond or loan, is due to be repaid in full.