Globalization Fundamentals
The process by which the world becomes increasingly interconnected and interdependent.
What is globalization?
Individual identity consists of personal traits, whereas this form of identity includes a group's shared beliefs, values, history, and language.
What is collective identity?
The federal regulatory agency tasked with protecting Canadian identity and overseeing broadcasting and telecommunications.
What is the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)?
The term for a person whose primary or first language is French[3][11]
What is a Francophone?
The merging of mass media companies with technology platforms, exemplified by the merger of Time-Warner and AOL.
What is media consolidation?
A business corporation that operates production or service facilities in two or more countries.
What is a transnational corporation?
The cultural trend toward making everyone the same through assimilation and uniform global influences.
What is homogenization?
The minimum percentage of Canadian content that Canadian radio stations are required by law to play.
What is 20%?
The Quebec law, also known as the Charter of the French Language, passed to protect French language rights in government, schools, and business.
What is Bill 101?
Global corporations that operate media outlets, film studios, theme parks, and publications across multiple countries?
What are media transnationals?
The four primary dimensions used to examine how globalization impacts different parts of society.
What are the Economic, Social, Political, and Environmental dimensions?
The blending of media, technologies, or cultural elements from different societies to create new cultural expressions.
What is hybridization?
Under CRTC guidelines, Canadian content requirements dictate that at least this percentage of production locations or budget must go to Canadians.
What is 75%?
Due to Quebec's French sign laws, American fast-food giant KFC is known locally by these three letters.
What is PFK (Poulet Frit Kentucky)?
Launched in September 1999, this network broadcasts television programming specifically produced for, about, and by Indigenous peoples in Canada.
What is APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network)?
While a worldview is an overall perspective of the world, this term refers specifically to any individual or group impacted by an issue or event.
What is a stakeholder?
The process in which a minority culture is absorbed into a dominant culture, often resulting in the loss of its original language and identity.
What is assimilation?
The CRTC requires major foreign streaming platforms like Netflix to contribute revenue toward this specific purpose.
What is funding local Canadian and Indigenous content?
The 18th-century conflict in which British forces defeated the French for territorial control over Quebec and North America.
What is the Seven Years' War?
In Social Studies, a subject or matter that affects people and allows for multiple reasonable points of view?
What is an issue?
While correlation means two events occur simultaneously, this concept means one event directly causes another to happen.
What is causation (or cause)?
The social experience of making an individual or minority group feel set apart, non-standard, or excluded from mainstream society.
What is marginalization?
The famous Canadian pop/R&B music artist featured in the CRTC presentation as a prime example of Canadian talent.
Who is The Weeknd?
Highlighted in the French Canada and history presentation alongside the Seven Years' War, this pivotal 1917 World War I conflict is featured as a defining milestone in Canadian national identity.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
A serious ethical and environmental problem linked to global electronics supply chains in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What is child labor exploitation in resource/cobalt mining?