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