سؤال قراءة ستيب محلول — فهم التفاصيل (تدريب 6481)

(1) Many people think globalization is a new phenomenon. In fact, this process has been happening for thousands of years. For example, some very old Chinese artifacts have been found in North and South America, and antique Arabian money has been found as far north as Norway. (2) What is even more remarkable is how quickly plants from the New World became staples in the Old World. Hungarian cooking. For example, is famous for use of red peppers, and the Irish and famous for eating potatoes. Indian food is an even better example. People in many countries now often eat Indian food. They seem to enjoy the idea that is the “traditional” but what is really in it? In many “traditional” Indian dishes, you will probably find potatoes, tomatoes, squash, corn, and sweet peppers. Your food may be cooked in peanut oil and have peanuts and cashew nuts sprinkled on top. For dessert you may have guavas or papaya. (1) We think of all this food as “traditional” Indian food. Yet sailors brought all these plants to India from America on ships after 1500. We can also assume that they took a long time to spread and become popular in their new homes. So really, they are not that traditional - they are relatively new. And the same is true for traditional food in many places. The chili pepper for instance is a main part of the diet from South Africa to Hungary, from Mexico to Spain, to Yemen to India to China, but it originated in the Americas. So Globalization is really nothing new. We can learn a lot about globalization today by studying patterns of globalization in the past. It is a process that has been happening since man began to trade. According to Paragraph (1). Globalization is often assumed to be a recent