Globalization Basics
The process that increases interconnectedness among people and countries.
What is globalization?
Characteristics that distinguish one person from others (in their friend group, for example).
What is individual identity?
The process in which a minority culture becomes fully absorbed into a majority culture.
What is assimilation?
Trade, transportation, communication technology, and media are known as these.
What are the forces of globalization?
A corporation that operates in two or more countries.
What is a transnational corporation (TNC)?
Term describing how much of the world does not have access to technology.
What is the digital divide?
Shared characteristics that connect someone to a group, such as a religion, sports team, or culture.
What is collective identity?
Accepting another culture and making space for its practices without requiring it to disappear. e.g. RCMP officers being allowed to wear turbans
What is accommodation?
Economic, political, environmental, and social are the four of these.
What are dimensions of globalization?
This Canadian organization requires a percentage of Canadian content in Canadian media.
What is the CRTC?
This globalization perspective believes globalization has serious problems and requires major improvements, but cannot realistically be stopped.
What is alter-globalism?
The greatest part of Quebecois culture/identity. This is being threatened by Americanization and Homogenization. BONUS RANCH - what law was passed to protect this (in both Quebec and other regions)?
What is language/linguistic identity? BR - Official Languages Act.
Two cultures combine elements to create something new, such as fusion cuisine or K-Pop.
What is hybridization?
Cargo ships carrying imported products across the Pacific Ocean involve these TWO forces.
What are trade and transportation?
A government deliberately promotes domestic culture and limits foreign cultural influence.
What is cultural protectionism?
“Globalization has some negative consequences, but its benefits outweigh them and only minor reforms are necessary.” - Unknown Author
Identify the source's perspective.
What is a pro-globalist/globalist?
A group loses its language, followed by traditions and customs, eventually threatening its sense of identity. If they took steps to regain this, including language revitalization, it would be called...
Cultural revitilization
A culture is pushed to the edge of society because its language and traditions differ from those of the dominant culture.
What is marginalization?
A TNC opens a factory that creates thousands of jobs but pays very low wages because local labour regulations are weak. The wages and jobs belong primarily to this dimension / geographical concept.
What is Economic dimension [OR] Global South?
McDonald’s, Hollywood movies, American clothing, and American entertainment becoming increasingly common around the world illustrate this concept.
What is Americanization?
A country becomes wealthier because of international trade, but its economy now depends heavily on foreign markets. This is an example of...
What is interdependence?
Americans want their newcomers to integrate into American society fully, embracing acculturation and assimilation. This is why it is called the ________ ____.
Melting pot
A minority adopts some practices from another culture while retaining its original cultural identity.
What is acculturation?
A banana plantation creates jobs, uses child labour, requires international trade agreements, and destroys rainforest. What dimension would the trade agreements fall under?
What is political?
A company moves manufacturing from Canada to a developing country because wages are lower. Name this practice.
What is outsourcing?
One student says globalization should expand rapidly; another says it is mostly positive but needs minor improvements; a third says it does more harm than good and needs major reform. Name all THREE perspectives in order.
What are hyper-globalist, pro-globalist, and alter-globalist?
Canada encourages immigrants to maintain distinct languages and traditions while participating in a shared Canadian society. This model contrasts with the “melting pot.”
What is the cultural mosaic/pluralism?
Three neighbourhood ethnic food restaurants originally serve completely different cuisines. Twenty years later, all three mainly sell the same globally popular foods. Identify the cultural consequence AND explain what happened.
What is homogenization/westernization — cultural differences have decreased as the cultures became more similar?
A viral video created in Korea is watched instantly in Canada, inspires American news coverage, and influences Canadian teenagers’ clothing. Identify TWO forces at play.
What are communication technology/media and the social dimension?
According to Marshall McLuhan, the important effect of smartphones isn’t merely the information displayed on them; it’s how they alter the speed, scale, and patterns of human interaction. Name the idea.
What is “the medium is the message”?