When Rita Thomas' clothing company began to market its line of inexpensive cotton shirts in Africa, it assumed that it would be able to use its television and print advertising measures that had worked very well in the United States and other countries. However, the company soon learned that literacy rates and ability to access television in other areas of the world were not comparable to the level prevalent in the home country. This pushed the company to think of other promotional measures that were not heavily dependent on literacy and technology. The factors that created difficulties for Rita's company in this scenario can be regarded as ________.
1) internal marketing controllables.
2) domestic environment controllables.
3) local environment uncontrollables.
4) foreign environment uncontrollables.
5) foreign environment controllables.

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