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Question 1

What are DWAGES

Answer 1

Disability, Wealth, Age, Gender, Ethnicity and sexuality

Question 2

How many tickets sold for rio paralympics and how many spectators attended

Answer 2

-Sold 2 million tickets – more than 1.5million 2008; vs. 2.8 million in London
- 170,000 spectators, more than the Olympics

Question 3

State the general benefit of paralympics

Answer 3

• Presents seriously disabled people as glamourous, ambitious and capable – instead of being a victimised minority.
• inspires those who are alsp disabled to maximise potential

Question 4

What was actual performance like in Rio Paralympics 2016

Answer 4

Better sport – 6 swimming records, 25% of athletics, faster 1500m timing men than the actual Olympics.

Question 5

Do the Paralympics have good coverage in the UK?

Answer 5

Yes - In 2012, Channel 4 showed 400 hours of coverage, Chinese (5 hrs a day), overnight in Germany / Franc, Italy 500 hours

Question 6

Realistically, do paralympics represent to entire population of the disabled?

Answer 6

• It’s still very much a rich-country event – costly prostheses, specialist training, 9 countries provide 40% of athletes,
• so in reality, developing countries who lack funding for the paralympics are not participating as wealth taken away through corruption

Question 7

Was media coverage of paralympics that good GLOBALLY?

Answer 7

Media coverage: Russia, Japan and USA didn’t really show the event

Question 8

State what growth and improvements are occruing for other disadvantaged groups?

Answer 8

• Tourists demand wheel chair access in hotels /public transport encouraging broader provision for local people.
• Global media / Youtube has raised awareness of social attitudes / human rights so minority genders / sexualities/indigenous groups demand rights / chance to vote / education / equal job opportunities.
• Rural-urban migrants in developing countries are exposed to equality of opportunity for disadvantaged groups and challenge treatment of women/LGBT and other minorities in their home area.
• Global agenda of human rights is seen as more important – e.g. and women are now allowed to work outside the home.

Question 9

What concerns have there been over globalisation (negative)

Answer 9

• conerns include perceived exploitiation of environments and people
• led to opposition by anit-globalisaion groups and enviro pressure groups
• they rejected globalised cultures and the practices of many TNCs in avoiding tax payments

Question 10

Define cultural diffusion

Answer 10

Cultural Diffusion - The spread of cultural beliefs and social activities into different cultures.

Question 11

Define cultural erosion

Answer 11

Cultural Erosion - The reduction of a culture due to globalisation.

Question 12

Define transformalist

Answer 12

This is the belief that globalisation won’t lead to the formation of a
homogeneous culture. Instead, the flow of culture is two-way.

Question 13

What are traditional asian diets characterised

Answer 13

being low in meat

Question 14

Why have asian diets changed?

Answer 14

• as china develops and middle class popualtion is growing, people adapt diet to western influence of TNCS

Question 15

What evidence is there of changing asian diets

Answer 15

From 1990s to 2015, meat consumption per capita rose from 5kg to 5okg

Question 16

What are the impacts of changing asian diets?

Answer 16

• obesity has increased especially in growing middle class pop
• rise in cattle rearing has led to a rise in methane emission which in turn increases global warming
• forest being cut down to make space for cattle rearing, reducing carbon sinking and massively increasing ghg emissions

Question 17

What evidence is there that changing culture isn’t always the worst in the paralympics

Answer 17

• in china study showed only 25% of disbaled people had a job so there must be a stigma
• in 2012 paralympics, chinese came first with their team