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Directions: In each of the questions below, a short passage is given outlining a point. Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Jatin: Developing countries like ours need to invest in education and job creation. They need to address the lack of opportunities in order to improve their economy and reduce migration. Our country produces so many engineering and MBA graduates but only a small percentage of them find jobs. It should therefore be no surprise that many migrate overseas for opportunities.
Lalit: Lack of opportunities in one's own country is not the only reason why educated persons migrate. Our country has a conservative culture which many of the educated persons feel alienated from, so they seek other countries whose societies are more open and free-thinking than ours.
Which of the following facts, if true, would weaken Lalit's argument?
1. Intellectual migrants do not necessarily discard a traditional value to replace it with a corresponding western value.
2. Intellectuals need stimulation, organisation, freedom, and recognition that they usually struggle to find in their countries of origin.
3. Even if there is some alienation from their own native culture these migrants are still travelling to a much more alien culture, which makes it unlikely that alienation from native culture is responsible for migration.
4. Making a start in encouraging entrepreneurship and gender identity is not likely to be enough to make a county attractive when compared against countries that are much further down the path.
5. If there is really no freedom in developing countries, then these migrants will be asylum seekers and refugees not true intellectual migrants by choice.
  • a)
    Only 1 and 3
  • b)
    Only 3 and 5
  • c)
    Only 2 and 4
  • d)
    Only 1 and 2
  • e)
    Only 4 and 5
Correct answer is option 'B'. Can you explain this answer?
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Lalit argues that educated persons migrate due to alienation from their native culture and lack of a free culture. Only 3 and 5 weaken this premise by providing counter points. 3 tells us that the culture of the country to which they are migrating is even more alien, so this is not likely to be the reason, and 5 tells us that lack of freedom would cause a different situation to arise. The other points do not focus on Lalit's argument. B is the right answer.
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