MOCK PUBLIC OPINION SURVEY QUESTIONS

Respond to each of the following statements by marking the choice deemed most appropriate to the personality of the role you have chosen to assume. Print out the entire survey and bring it to class with you on Monday, April 29, 2002.  Be prepared to defend and explain your responses in character during our in-class discussion of survey results.

Use the following key to indicate your responses to individual survey statements:

SA: STRONGLY AGREE
A: AGREE
NO: NO OPINION
D: DISAGREE
SD: STRONGLY DISAGREE

  1. ____ Japan's position in the world will always require that the nation remain in the shadow of western-directed international policy making.
  2. ____ The influences of the West on Japan's popular culture has eroded our ingrained sense of cultural uniqueness.
  3. ____ Japanese Self-Defense forces should be permitted to participate in situations deemed threatening to the world community as interpreted by the United Nations.
  4. ____ Japan today should consider itself the equal of any western nation.
  5. ____ More women chose to remain single today because of their ability to find meaningful employment and a steady income.
  6. ____ The United States remains Japan's most important ally and friend.
  7. ____ Contemporary depictions of violence and sexuality in various media (manga, advertising posters, videogames. television, anime and videos) negatively influence today's young people.
  8. ____ In the midst of the current economic downturn, women should willingly forgo a search for full time employment so as to bring down national unemployment statistics.
  9. ____ Salarymen continue to be overworked despite the official recognition given karoshi ("death from overwork") as a life-threatening condition among today s white collar workforce.
  10. ____ Using the service of a nakodo ("matchmaker") remains a good way to ensure a proper marriage match.
  11. ____ Current economic conditions in Japan will improve only with the adoption of international standards for behavior and adherence to mainstream international economic policies.
  12. ____ Portable electronic gadgets (cell phones, music players, game machines) should continue to be banned from schools as educational distractions.
  13. ____ Encouraging educational diversity should replace the uniformity of current national standards at both the primary and middle school levels.
  14. ____ College and universities need to revise their standards in order to make the undergraduate experience more beneficial to students in today s competitive and complex world.
  15. ____ Young married couples today feel assuming responsibility for the husband s parents in their old age represents an unwelcome burden to be avoided if possible.
  16. ____ Given the upsurge in terror attacks worldwide, additional steps should be taken to control, regulate and monitor the activities of fundamentalist and activist religious groups.
  17. ____ At marriage both spouses should be allowed to retain their original surnames or adopt a hyphenated family name.
  18. ____ Unmarried women at the age of thirty are happy with their unwed status.
  19. ____ Were the yakuza to continue to legitimize their business operations, it would become more a acceptable participant organization in today s society.
  20. ____ To participate in sport activities directly is preferable to playing a simulation of a sport in a video game.
  21. ____ In our crowded and busy lives, robot animals are preferable to real pets.
  22. ____ Newspaper reports are inherently biased in their support of government policies and positions.
  23. ____ Increased computer use and text-messaging cell phones have significantly decreased our ability to recognize and write kanji correctly.
  24. ญญญ____ The incorporation of new technologies into the traditional arts is a healthy way to appeal to the younger generation and keep these traditions alive.
  25. ____ The decision to send Japanese civilian troops  to aid in the War Against Terrorism is a justifiable means to enhance the nation s international position vis a vis the other nations of the world.
  26. ____ My sense of personal safety, especially in train stations, subterranean shopping malls and office buildings, has decreased in the aftermath of the Sarin gas attacks and the World Trade Center / Pentagon terrorist attacks.
  27. ____ Today s younger males much prefer spending leisure time with foreign hostesses rather than traditionally-trained geisha.
  28. ____ Married women should expect to leave their professional lives behind.
  29. ____ The contemporary emphasis on quality family life exceeds that found in more traditional times.
  30. ____ The economic turmoil of the past decade has contributed significantly to a higher crime rate.

 

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