Base your answer to question 33 on the passage
below and on your knowledge of social studies.
the “middle east” is not a term middle
easterners gave themselves, but a british term
borne of a colonial, european perspective. the
term’s origins are seeped [steeped] in controversy
for having originally been a european imposition
of geographic perspective according to european
spheres of influence. east from where? from
london. why “middle”? because it was half-way
between the united kingdom and india, the far
east.…
— pierre tristam, “what is the middle east? ”
which term is most closely associated with the
main idea of this passage?
(1) interdependence (3) containment
(2) pacifism (4) ethnocentrism