Unit 1
The process that occurs when the culture of a minority group is absorbed by a larger culture.
What is assimilation?
the belief that the values and experiences of European society are more important than those of other cultures.
What is Eurocentrism?
The agreement (treaty) signed that ended World War 1, and set up the League of Nations.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
examples: food, clothing, shelter and water
What are basic needs
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?
The gap that separates people who do and do not have access to up-to-date digital technology
What is the Digital Divide?
What is the name given to the way in which European countries brought nearly all of the African continent under their control through Imperialism?
What is the Scramble for Africa
A penalty. often an economic penalty such as a trade boycott taken to pressure a government to agree to carry out certain actions or follow certain rules.
What is a sanction
The rights we have simply because we exist as human beings - they are not granted by any state.
Human Rights
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 trade that began when Columbus brought agricultural products from Europe to the Americas, where they became staples. In return, Native North American species were exported to Europe.
What is the Grand Exchange
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?
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 process by which all cultures gradually lose their distinctive features and one blended culture results; the resulting culture sometimes called a “monoculture”
What is Homgenization?
Savings that are achieved by producing, using, and buying things in large quantities
What is Economies of Scale
The idea that a variety of people's are free to affirm and promote their customs, traditions, beliefs, and language within a society
What is Cultural Pluralism (accept "pluralism")
The degree to which the Earth is able to provide the resources necessary to meet people's needs
What is sustainability?
Since its adoption, this international document has served as a model for similar documents, including the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The UN Declaration on Human Rights
The spread of trade, transportation, and communication systems around the world in the interest of promoting worldwide trade/commerce.
What is Economic Globalization?
A process that occurs when people from different cultures come into contact, accept and create space for one another. The customs, traditions, technologies, beliefs and languages of both cultures may be affected
What is Acculturation
A time period often identified as beginning in 1492, when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Caribbean and ending after World War II, when the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers
What is Historical Globalization
Economist who did not like government control in the economy. Said rules/laws would interfere with competition, which was needed for the economy to rebound.
Who is Freidrich Hayak
Considered a milestone of Human Rights in North America, this document influenced the American Constitution.
What is the Great Law of Peace?
A policy followed by European Imperial powers from the 16th to the 19th century. In colonies, trade was strictly controlled to benefit the economy of the Imperial power
What is Mercantilism