LR Drill Set 8, Question 5
Yvette: The rise of transnational corporations will lead(61 more words not shown)
Yvette and Aisha disagree about(1 more words not shown)
- Anation-states encourage the(5 more words not shown)
- Btransnational corporations can(12 more words not shown)
- Ctransnational corporations are(9 more words not shown)
- Dtransnational corporations will(8 more words not shown)
- Ethe development of(8 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Working for a global company doesn't automatically make someone forget their own culture.
That's my first reaction to Yvette. She expects a common corporate work culture to replace people's traditional identities. But someone could work in marketing for an international company and still keep the traditions they grew up with. And not everyone will work for one of these corporations. Yvette needs more to establish the broad cultural change she predicts.
Aisha pushes in the other direction: the corporations have to adapt to local cultures to succeed, so she expects them to reinforce those cultures. I could question whether adapting to a culture really guarantees its stability. But we don't need to settle which speaker has the better prediction.
What we’re looking for
The question asks where they disagree. Yvette expects transnational corporations to weaken traditional identities; Aisha says they will affirm those identities' stability. Look for that disagreement about the effect on existing cultures.
Working the answers
- A
Neither speaker tells us whether nation-states encourage their people to become more culturally alike. Yvette is talking about the effect of corporations, and Aisha is talking about those corporations having to adapt to cultures within nation-states. Mentioning nations doesn't establish opposing views about what their governments encourage.
- B
Aisha thinks corporations have to conform to local cultures to succeed. But Yvette doesn't say corporations are unable to adapt. She could think a corporation adopts local customs while gradually encouraging workers to replace traditional identities with a common work culture. Adaptation and eventual cultural influence can both occur. We can't assign Yvette a “no” merely because she predicts a different result.
- C
Aisha's account does make success depend on fitting the local culture. Yvette doesn't address this proposed dependence on nation-states. She might agree that corporations need local cooperation and still expect traditional identities to decline. We need a claim on which both speakers take opposing positions, not a condition relevant to only one speaker's explanation.
- DCorrect
Yvette says transnational corporations will contribute to the decline of traditional identities: people will abandon those identities in favor of a common corporate culture. Aisha explicitly rejects that result and predicts stability instead. Yvette gives us a yes and Aisha a no on this exact claim. We don't have to exaggerate Yvette's position into a prediction that every person will belong to one identical world culture.
- E
Political power is a different issue from cultural identity. A nation could become more politically powerful while its traditional culture weakens, or the reverse could happen. Neither speaker commits to the political-power claim in E, so it isn't their stated disagreement.
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