Unit 1
The original inhabitants of a country or territory
What is Indigenous (or Aboriginal)
A law in Canada that established the rights of registered Indians and Indian bands.
What is the Indian Act?
One company hiring another company to fulfill certain tasks in production (IE car parts made in different countries)
What is Outsourcing?
A flag flown by ships when they are registered in a country that is not the country of their owner
What is a Flag of Convenience?
A rebirth or newfound interest and growth in a specific culture
What is Cultural Revitalization?
An economic system characterized by private or ownership of property focusing on the accumulation of wealth and competition in a free market.
What is Capitalism?
The authority of a country to make independent decisions concerning its own welfare
Sovereignty
The spread of trade, transportation, and communication systems around the world in the interest of promoting worldwide trade/commerce.
What is Economic Globalization?
The area of the Earth's surface necessary to sustain a person: includes the level of resources that a person uses and the waste created by them
What is an Ecological Footprint?
A term that describes how electronic mass media has collapsed barriers and people from all over the world now have a sense of community similar to that of a village.
What is Global Village?
the belief that the values and experiences of European society are more important than those of other cultures.
What is Eurocentrism?
A more politically correct term for "Third World" countries that are less wealthy and have less industrialization
What is undeveloped countries?
Industries that use knowledge to produce economic benefits (rather than physical labour)
What is the Knowledge Economy?
The recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.
What is Human Trafficking?
The domination by one or more countries over others to gain power and wealth
What is Imperialism
An ideology based on socialism as envisioned by Karl Marx where all people are equal
What is Communism?
A society where individual and group differences are present and are celebrated as enriching the social fabric.
What is Pluralism?
An agreement signed by the Allied countries in 1944 that established the World Bank and IMF along with rules to promote international trade
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement?
A health epidemic that spreads around the world and poses a serious threat because of people's ability to travel further and faster than ever before
What is a Pandemic?
The process by which all cultures gradually lose their distinctive features and one blended culture results; the resulting culture sometimes called a “monoculture”
What is Homogenization?
Influencial thinker who said the government should spend money on programs to get the USA out of the Great Depression
Who is John Keynes
An intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations
What is the United Nations?
A financial institution, with headquarters in the United States, that provides loans to member countries in financial difficulty
What is the World Bank?
Accepting responsibility for ensuring that the earth’s resources remain sustainable
What is Stewardship?