ebs 단기특강 유형편 18강

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Day 18

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Control breeds its own necessity. So, when we treat land with heavy pesticides, the superweeds and superbugs that emerge require new and even stronger doses of pesticides. When someone goes on a diet and attempts to control her urge to eat, at some point the suppressed desire explodes outward as a binge, prompting further attempts to control herself. And when human beings are boxed in, watched, scheduled, assigned, classed, and compelled, they resist in all kinds of ways, sometimes irrational or even violent. Ah, we think, we need to control these people. As with an addiction, these intensifying attempts at control eventually exhaust all available resources, whether personal, social, or planetary. The result is a crisis __________________________________________.

 

2

In understanding bird language, we need to look at bird culture as an anthropologist looks at human culture. Each species occupies a different niche in the environment, subtle though the difference may be to us. (It could be obvious to the birds.) Some species catch insects on the wing: others scratch insects from under the leaves. The better we understand the whole ecology of a given place, the better we become at looking at this world from the birds' perspective, and the better we will be at learning the birds' language. Every living being has a purpose, a mission, a life strategy, a set of gifts, and a set of weaknesses. Set aside any assumption that ___________________________. Making these types of assumptions leads to missing the subtle unique traits inherent in birds, other animals, and people.

 

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The success of global brands has led some writers to predict an inevitable colonization of world cultures by international corporate brands that would lead to the fall of local cultures. However, there also is evidence that social relationships and values in local cultures are relatively resistant to the assumed erosive effects of globalization. Studies of mobile phone use in South Korea and of MTV in East Asia found that the spread of global products and services in East Asia, instead of destroying local cultures, reinforced and reinvented moral values in local communities. This is the paradoxical aspect of globalization at which Giddens points, when he defines globalization as "a complex set of processes that operate in a contradictory or oppositional fashion." On the one hand, globalization is expected to destroy local cultures; on the other hand, ____________________________________________.