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Name Date Cultural Literacy Worksheet: Developing Nation. Cultural literacy is familiarity with and ability to understand the idioms, allusions, and informal content that create and constitute a culture. Here is a short reading from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Hirsch, E.D., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Please answer the accompanying questions.Developing Nation: A nation where the average income is much lower than in industrial nations, where the economy relies on a few export crops, and where farming is conducted by primitive methods. In many developing nations, rapid population growth threatens the supply of food. Developing nations have also been called underdeveloped nations. Most of them are in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
1. What is a developing nation? What are some characteristics of a developing nation?
2. What, in many developing nations, does rapid population growth threaten?
3. What have developing nations also been called? Where are most developing nations?
Name Date Cultural Literacy Worksheet: Developing Nation. Cultural literacy is familiarity with and ability to understand the idioms, allusions, and informal content that create and constitute a culture. Here is a short reading from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Hirsch, E.D., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Please answer the accompanying questions.Developing Nation: A nation where the average income is much lower than in industrial nations, where the economy relies on a few export crops, and where farming is conducted by primitive methods. In many developing nations, rapid population growth threatens the supply of food. Developing nations have also been called underdeveloped nations. Most of them are in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
1. What is a developing nation? What are some characteristics of a developing nation?
2. What, in many developing nations, does rapid population growth threaten?
3. What have developing nations also been called? Where are most developing nations?
