Dimensions of Globalization
The process by which the world's citizens are becoming increasingly connected to and dependent on one another.
What is globalization?
This federal commission regulates and supervises all aspects of the Canadian broadcasting system, establishing how much Canadian content (CanCon) must be broadcast.
What is the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)?
An era often identified as beginning in 1492 when Christopher Columbus made his first voyage to the Caribbean, and ending after WWII.
What is historical globalization?
Known as the "Father of Capitalism," he advocated for laissez-faire, minimal government intervention, and the "invisible hand" of supply and demand.
Who is Adam Smith?
A way of thinking that centers on one's own race and culture, leading people to believe their worldview is the only valid one.
What is ethnocentrism?
The gap that separates people who do and do not have access to up-to-date digital technology.
What is the digital divide?
The process of affirming and promoting people's individual and collective cultural identity.
What is cultural revitalization?
A deeply racist and Eurocentric justification used by European empires to claim it was their job to "civilize" people in the colonies they controlled.
What is the "White Man's Burden"?
This economist advocated for a mixed economy and believed that government intervention in the economy is necessary.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
This leader successfully led India to independence in 1947 through a strategy of peaceful non-cooperation based on the principle of swadeshi (self-sufficiency).
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
The process by which diverse and unique local cultures gradually become similar, blended, or absorbed into a single, dominant global culture.
What is the homogenization of culture?
Occurring in the 1960s, this was a form of Québécois nationalism where they sought to be "masters in their own house".
What was the Quiet Revolution?
The 16th to 18th-century European policy where governments strictly controlled trade to ensure the balance of trade favored the home country over its colonies.
What is mercantilism?
This international body, founded in 1995, sets the official legal rules for global trade, but faces heavy criticism for being an undemocratic tool of powerful lobbies.
What is the WTO (World Trade Organization)?
A measurement representing the area of the Earth's surface necessary to sustain the level of resources you use and the waste you create.
What is an ecological footprint?
The process where different cultures mix and blend.
What is cultural hybridization?
This occurs when a dominant society changes its laws or institutional structures to make room for minority traditions, such as the case of Baltej Singh Dhillon and the RCMP.
What is cultural accommodation?
This completely changed human history by shifting production to steam-powered machinery and factories, serving as the launching pad for modern capitalism.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Having an aspect of your business done by another contractor (often in another country) to save money, which can take jobs away from the home-based country.
What is outsourcing?
In 1994, he led the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in Rwanda and witnessed the genocide after his request for 5,000 troops was drastically reduced.
Who is Roméo Dallaire?
An economic system where wealth and growth are driven primarily by information, intellect, and high-tech innovation.
What is a knowledge economy?
Established in 1991 following the Oka Crisis, this body explicitly detailed how assimilationist policies like the Indian Act and Residential Schools undermined Indigenous cultures.
What was the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples?
his Belgian monarch laid claim to the Congo, treated its people harshly by cutting off hands for missing rubber quotas, and triggered the Berlin Conference.
Who was King Leopold II?
A massive, decade-long drought combined with poor farming techniques that destroyed the soil across the Canadian Prairies during the Great Depression.
What was the Dust Bowl?
Financial handouts given by wealthy governments to their farmers, which creates an unfair global playing field and completely bankrupts unsubsidized farmers in developing nations.
What are farm subsidies?