Globalization Basics
This term describes the process of the world's people becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent.
What is globalization?
Your interests, personal values, accomplishments, and individual characteristics are examples of this type of identity.
What is individual identity?
This occurs when a minority culture is absorbed into a dominant culture. Person or group will be culturally indistinguishable from those culturally native to the society.
What is assimilation?
This refers to the movies, music, fashion, sports, entertainment, and other cultural activities most actively participated in by the public.
What is popular culture?
Canada recognizes these two languages as its official languages at the federal level.
What are English and French?
A Canadian company buys products from another country and sells them in Canada. What is this process called?
What is importing?
A person's connection to a language community, cultural traditions, or a hockey team can be part of this type of identity.
What is collective identity?
A school allows a student to wear religious clothing even though the school's general rules would normally restrict that type of clothing.
What concept describes this adjustment to allow cultural differences?
What is accommodation?
Netflix delivers movies and television programs directly to consumers over the Internet rather than through traditional television distributors.
What type of media is this?
What is streaming media?
This Canadian government organization regulates and supervises broadcasting and telecommunications in the public interest.
What is the CRTC? Canadian Radio Telecommunications Commission.
Of the four dimensions of globalization, this dimension focuses on governments, international agreements, and organizations such as the United Nations.
What is political globalization?
As more people move from rural areas to cities, cities often become more culturally diverse and globally connected.
What process is occurring, and what word describes a city that is globally oriented and embraces diversity?
What are urbanization and cosmopolitanism?
A community's traditional language is disappearing, so community members create language programs, teach younger generations the language, and work to restore traditional practices.
What process is this?
What is cultural revitalization?
A newspaper combines print articles, online articles, video, and social media to tell and distribute the same story across different platforms.
What concept describes this merging of different forms of media?
What is media convergence?
The CBC/SRC and APTN provide Canadian or Indigenous perspectives through national media.
What larger goal of globalization and identity do these examples help demonstrate?
What is cultural affirmation and/or cultural revitalization?
“Globalization is not new. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the world was already tightly connected through trade. What is different today is the speed at which these connections occur and our ability to see and respond to changes as they happen.”
What aspect of globalization does this source challenge?
What is the idea that globalization is new?
A student moves to Canada and adopts some Canadian customs. At the same time, Canadian classmates begin learning and using some traditions from the student's original culture.
What concept describes this two-way process of cultural influence?
What is acculturation?
A person uses a sacred or culturally significant symbol from another culture as a fashion accessory without understanding its meaning or significance.
What is cultural appropriation?
A few large companies purchase or merge with smaller media organizations until a large portion of the media industry is controlled by only a small number of owners.
“Global demand for oil and gas encouraged resource development in Northern Alberta. As development expanded, the Lubicon Cree experienced disruption to their traditional way of life.”
What impact does the source demonstrate? Bonus: Why?
What is cultural disruption.
BONUS: Their way of life was disrupted by oil exploration, and they go from being self-sufficient to highly dependent on the government because of Alberta and Canada’s global connections.
A smartphone sold in Canada may contain minerals from one country, components produced in several others, be assembled somewhere else, and then be shipped to consumers around the world.
What idea about globalization does this source BEST demonstrate?
What is global interconnectedness/interdependence?
A student moves to Canada and adopts Canadian customs while continuing to maintain their original language, traditions, and cultural identity. They participate in the larger society without giving up their original culture.
What concept best describes this situation?
What is integration?
The Métis developed a distinct identity through interaction between First Nations peoples and Europeans. Their language, Michif, also reflects this mixing of cultures.
What concept does the Métis case study demonstrate?
BONUS: What does it show about cultural interaction?
What is hybridization?
BONUS: It shows that cultural interaction can create new cultural forms and identities rather than simply replacing one culture with another.
“Much globalized media content comes from the West, particularly from the United States.”
What concern about globalization and culture does this statement most directly raise?
What is cultural homogenization?
Situation 1: A global media company distributes mostly American entertainment around the world.
Situation 2: A minority language community creates programs to preserve and teach its language.
Situation 3: A musician combines elements from several different cultures to create a new style of music.
Identify the three concepts, in order.
What are universalization of popular culture, cultural revitalization, and hybridization?