Commentator: In the new century, only nations with all the latest electronic technology will experience great economic prosperity.
Background Claims
conditionals (only, will)
Great econ → all the latest prosperity electronic tech
great econ prosperity nation's people and → bombarded w/ how all the latest elec tech ppl elsewhere live
causal chain (this will increase, leading to)
1. You live in a country with all the latest tech and economic prosperity. 2. You get bombarded with images of how people in other countries live. 3. This increases your tendency to question their own customs and traditions. 4. This leads to a dissolution of those customs and traditions.
Setup
What do we think will be true about "the stability of a nation's cultural identity"?
Evaluate
Inference questions are usually testing our ability to see Overlapping Concepts. We need to see that "a stable cultural identity" is the logical opposite of the concept of .
That means that "stable cultural identity" is the logical opposite of where our causal chain ends.
Suppose we said,
Then they say, , they would be presumably fishing for "... depend on not eating that mushroom".
If you don't want the end of the causal chain to happen, then avoid doing the beginning of the causal chain. In this case, we're saying, "If you want to avoid the dissolution of your nation's cultural identity, then ... - don't be a nation with great economic prosperity? - don't be a nation with all the latest tech? - don't let your people be bombarded with images of how other countries live?
These don't really sound like preventable things. The first two you wouldn't want to avoid. You want prosperity. You want all the latest tech. The 3rd one is told to us as a non-debatable consequence of the first two. If you have the tech and the prosperity, then you will be bombarded, so you will have your nation's identity destabilized.
Goal
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