Globalization & Identity
The process where the world becomes more connected and interdependent
What is globalization?
When a group adopts parts of another culture but keeps its own
What is acculturation?
A small number of companies controlling most media
What is media concentration?
Ancient trade route connecting Europe and Asia
What is the Silk Road?
One country dominating another politically, economically, or culturally
What is imperialism?
When cultures become more similar due to global influence
What is homogenization?
When a minority group is absorbed into a dominant culture
What is assimilation?
Media companies that operate across borders
What is media transnational?
Economic system where colonies exist to benefit the mother country
What is mercantilism?
Interaction between cultures through trade or conquest
What is cultural contact?
When cultures mix to create something new
What is hybridization?
When a society allows groups to maintain their cultural identity
What is accommodation?
When people around the world consume the same culture
What is universalization of popular culture?
Economic system based on free trade and competition
What is capitalism?
The mass removal of Indigenous children into foster care/adoption in the 1900s
What is the Sixties Scoop?
When a minority group is pushed to the edges of society
What is marginalization?
Efforts to restore or strengthen a culture
What is cultural revitalization?
Companies that produce and sell in multiple countries
What are transnational corporations?
The idea that self-interest benefits society
What is the invisible hand?
A legal agreement that compensated survivors of residential schools
What is the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA)?
A process where diversity exists but groups function together as one society
What is integration?
The belief that one’s own culture is superior and should be used to judge others
ethnocentrism
A result of global media where cultures become more alike
What is homogenization?
The period when factories and machines transformed production
What is the Industrial Revolution?
A lasting impact of residential schools and the Sixties Scoop
What is intergenerational trauma / loss of culture?