Vocabulary
What is Globalization?
the process of increasing the connectivity and interdependence of the world's markets and businesses. This process has speeded up dramatically in the last two decades because of the advent of the internet
What is economic globalization?
The movement of goods, services, technology and information internationally. Connection of economies through increasing movement of goods and services worldwide.
What is integration?
There is an interest in adopting the behaviours and values of the new culture while still maintaining the original culture.
What is technological globalization?
The world becoming closer through technology
How does globalization affect you personally?
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What is the United Nations?
This world organization, that is still around today, was created after WWII as a place in which nations could settle international disputes.
What is the purpose of the WTO?
Create/maintain trading regulations/policies
What is delocalization?
It is the lack of clear cultural identity
Does technology have a large impact on Globalization? Why or why not?
Yes. We use technology to communicate internationally and to make transport and travel faster
What is monoculture?
Industrial farming is widely associated with this practice of using only a single type of crop or livestock on a given farm.
What does it mean "Global village"?
The idea that we became a single community due to affordable and effective transportation, mass media, and electronic communications.
Give an example of a transnational corporation
Coke, KFC, Apple
What are the 3 different levels of identity? (at least 2)
individual identity, collectivictic and global
What did we do to communicate before technology?
We wrote letters.
What are the Four main types of globalization?
Technology, economic, political, and cultural.
Technology, economic, political, and cultural.
What is free market?
To act without being subjected to one government's control is because of this term that allows for the free flow of goods and services
What is one problem with transnational corporations going into developing countries?
lower wages, bankruptcy of local companies
What is cultural protectionism?
When a nation protects its culture from the effects of globalization
Name forms of technology globalization.
Phones, computers, telegraphs, emails, texts, calls, faxes, etc.
Do you think Ukraine is dependent on globalization?
Yes, depends on trade, economics, political agreements and technology
What is exploitation?
This happens when Multi-National Corporations take advantage of workers in foreign countries by paying lower wages.
World known anti-globalization movements?
Election of Trump and Brexit.
What are four acculturation strategies used by induviduals? (at least 3)
assimilation, integration, sepparation, marginalization
Is globalization today possible to achieve without technology?
No.
Who are the Metis?
This group of indigenous people are in the process of cultural revitalization through technology like the internet, and by reconnecting to their past through land settlements in Manitoba.