Terms & Definitions
Customary activities, values, attitudes, and beliefs passed without writing from one generation to the next.
What is tradition?
The three primary motives for early European exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
The process where all cultures gradually lose distinctive features, resulting in a single "monoculture."
What is homogenization?
This speaker finds it easier to learn English and dress like most Canadians, rarely speaking their native Farsi.
Who is Speaker III?
He argued that government has no place in the economy and supply and demand should rule.
Who is Adam Smith?
A mental view or outlook shaped by a group's value system and experiences.
What is perspective?
The belief that European society is superior to other cultures and should be the "center" of the world.
What is Eurocentrism?
An American doll whose "Global" website allows interaction in 10 different languages.
Who is Barbie?
This veteran stated that WWI proved the "fighting spirit" of his tribe was not stopped by reservation life.
Who was Mike Mountain Horse?
The organization that helps to monitor and regulate global trade.
What is the World Trade Organization / WTO?
The quality of being different.
What is diversity?
This 1500s trade response to Arab-dominated routes involved sponsoring explorers to find new resources.
What is mercantilism?
A TV show that adapts its content to focus on literacy for girls in Egypt.
What is Sesame Street?
This writer noted that "You are not normal" if you belong to the literate minority with access to school.
Who is the author of the excerpt?
Organizations like the IMF and WTO encourage government actions designed to promote this.
What is global integration?
A society that celebrates individual and group differences as something that enriches the social fabric.
What is a pluralistic society?
The era in which European nations moving from manual labor to machine manufacture poured inexpensive goods into colonies.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This process is illustrated by youth in Britain wearing American brands like DKNY and talking about American films.
What is universalization/homogenization?
This speaker enjoys using satellite radio to hear perspectives and native languages from other countries like Germany.
Who is Speaker IV?
A negative side of globalization is that it can wipe out these along with the cultures that accompany them.
What are economic systems?
The study of the origin and nature of people, or a body of beliefs belonging to an individual or group.
What is ideology?
The term for the 19th-century European belief that they had a duty to "civilize" the "inferior peoples" of Asia and Africa.
What is the "white man's burden"?
The process of mixing different cultural elements to produce something new, such as the Métis culture.
What is hybridization?
This speaker loves the ease of staying in touch with Asian friends via the Internet but was surprised to see McDonald's arches in 100-year-old buildings.
Who is Speaker I?
This international agency provides loans to countries in financial trouble.
What is the International Monetary Fund / IMF?