Question 1

The Icelandic Constitution grants equal employment rights to all citizens.

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The Icelandic Constitution includes provisions that ensure equal rights for all citizens, which encompasses equal employment rights.

Question 2

When Icelanders found out that neoliberals were wrong, they changed their government.

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In 2009, following the financial crisis and the collapse of Iceland's banking system, Icelanders elected a left-wing government, moving away from neoliberal policies that were blamed for the crisis.

Question 3

Icelandic novelist Einar Már Guðmundsson says the neoliberal concept of the market is religious.

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Einar Már Guðmundsson has critiqued neoliberalism by comparing its belief in the market to religious faith, suggesting it is followed with similar fervor and unquestioning belief.

Question 4

List nine anthropologists named in this chapter:

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Question 5

List three systems young rural Chinese women are caught up in:

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Question 6

Discuss how ethnography becomes a weakness rather than a strength of anthropology when we start describing aspects of the global system. Use either the tuna industry or the Mississippi shrimping industry as an example.

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Question 7

Discuss how tuna processors increased production to the point that they destroyed their own market and why U.S. processors had to leave the market while others could stay.

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Question 8

Explain how a country can get involved in a debt to the World Bank, a readjustment program, cancel most of its social programs, and get into a race to the bottom with other countries and wind up making conditions worse for its own people.

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Question 9

Discuss how after the revolution in China it was OK to talk about the working class when there wasn't one but now that there is one, it's not OK to talk about it. How is this an example of state mind control?

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Question 10

Discuss how the idea of private property, worked into neoliberal economics, destroyed the Icelandic economy.

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Quiz 13: Connecting the People to the System