It’s a Small World After All
The process by which the world becomes more interconnected through trade, technology, and cultural exchange.
What is globalization?
Buying and selling goods between countries is called this.
What is trade?
The global computer network connecting billions of people.
What is the Internet?
Globalization makes this easier to spread worldwide.
What are diseases?
The spread of cultural traits around the world.
What is cultural diffusion?
This economic system emphasizing free markets and private ownership has driven much modern globalization.
What is capitalism?
Products made in multiple countries through a network of production are part of this.
What are global supply chains?
This type of communication allows real-time global conversation.
What is video conferencing?
The COVID-19 pandemic showed how connected the world is through this.
What is travel/global movement?
When cultures blend together due to globalization.
What is cultural blending/hybridization?
The increased movement of goods, people, and ideas across borders is called global ______.
What is interdependence?
This organization gives loans to developing countries to promote economic growth.
What is the World Bank?
Social media contributes to globalization by spreading this quickly.
What are ideas/culture/information?
Organizations like this coordinate global health responses.
What is the WHO?
A shared global culture is often called this culture.
What is global/pop culture?
Explain one way technology has accelerated globalization.
Faster communication/transportation/internet enabling global trade and cultural exchange.
This organization regulates global trade rules.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
Compare communication in 1900 vs today.
Letters/slow vs instant/digital/global.
Explain how globalization can both help and hurt global health.
Faster spread vs faster medical cooperation.
Explain one way globalization influences identity.
Exposure to new ideas/cultures changes beliefs and lifestyles.
Compare globalization before 1900 to after 1900.
After 1900 is faster, tech-driven, global-scale, and more interconnected.
Explain why some countries benefit more from globalization than others.
Access to resources, education, stability, infrastructure, investment, etc.
Explain one positive and one negative impact of technology on globalization.
Positives: communication/trade; Negatives: misinformation/job loss/etc.
Compare disease spread in the 1300s vs today.
Slower/local vs rapid/global.
Compare local culture vs global culture.
Local = traditional/regional; Global = shared worldwide.