Global Connections
The process of the world becoming much more connected and relying on each other for trade, culture, and technology.
What is globalization?
When a person changes their culture to fit into a new society, but still keeps their original traditions and identity.
What is acculturation?
The historical system where powerful European countries took over other lands and people to build massive global empires.
What is imperialism?
Huge companies, like Nike or Apple, that have their main offices in one country but build and sell products all over the world.
What is a transnational corporation (or multinational corporation)?
Using the earth's natural resources carefully today so that they do not run out for future generations.
What is environmental sustainability?
Movies, music, clothing styles, and fast food that are popular with millions of people all over the world.
What is popular culture?
When cultures mix together and become so similar that their unique differences start to disappear.
What is homogenization?
The belief that European culture, values, and language are better and more important than all other cultures.
What is Eurocentrism?
When a business moves its factories or service jobs to another country where workers are paid lower wages.
What is outsourcing?
Resources that can naturally replace themselves over time, like timber, solar energy, and wind.
What are renewable resources?
The type of globalization that looks at how we buy, sell, and trade goods with other countries.
What is economic globalization?
Mixing elements from different cultures to create a completely new style, like mixing traditional music with modern rap.
What is cultural hybridization?
The historical trade system that forced millions of African people across the ocean to work as slaves in the Americas.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
A trade agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico that allows goods to cross borders without extra taxes.
What is a free trade agreement (or CUSMA / NAFTA)?
The damage caused to the environment when humans clear away large forests to use the wood or build cities.
What is deforestation?
The type of globalization that focuses on how ideas, languages, fashion, and lifestyles spread across borders.
What is social globalization?
A variety of different cultures, languages, and traditions existing together in one society.
What is cultural diversity (or multiculturalism)?
This historic multi-billion dollar company controlled the fur trade and ruled over Western Canada for hundreds of years.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)?
The continuous line of businesses, workers, and transport needed to turn raw materials into a finished product on a store shelf.
What is a supply chain?
This measures how much land and water a person or country uses up to support the way they live.
What is an ecological footprint?
The specific type of globalization that involves governments making laws, alliances, and treaties with other nations.
What is political globalization?
This Canadian TV network was created specifically to give Indigenous peoples a voice and protect their languages and culture.
What is APTN?
The business practice where an empire takes raw materials from a colony, makes them into goods, and sells them back to make a huge profit.
What is mercantilism?
When a government removes laws, rules, and restrictions on businesses to allow them to trade more freely.
What is deregulation?
Resources that have a limited supply and can never be replaced once they are completely used up, like oil and coal.
What are non-renewable resources?