UNIT 1
When one culture takes over another culture.
What is assimilation
When one country controls the politics, economics, and social structures of another nation.
What is colonialism or imperialism
What is it called when a company sends part of its production process overseas?
What is outsourcing
Support given to countries in need, whether in the form of money, people, or supplies, is know as what?
What is foreign aid.
The belief that one culture is superior to all other cultures.
What is ethnocentrism
What are the four forces of globalization?
What are economic globalization, social globalization, political globalization, and environmental globalization.
What is the name of the legislation that was meant to get rid of the "Indian problem" in Canada?
What is the Indian Act
Who is known as the father of capitalism?
Who is Adam Smith.
When a company commits to follow ethical standards.
What is corporate citizenship/ corporate social responsibility.
This organization was formed after WWII to promote global cooperation
What is the UN
The idea that the entire world and its inhabitants are becoming one large community interconnected by technology, particularly television.
What is global village?
The population shift from rural to urban areas .
What is urbanization?
The area of the earth's surface necessary to sustain the level of resources a person uses and the waste she or he creates.
What is ecological footprint.
Awareness of the wider world, Respects and values diversity, Willingness to act and help others, Accepting responsibility for own actions
What are characteristics of a global citizen.
Organizations that provide countries etc with loans.
What are the IMF and World Bank
The blending of media and communications technologies resulting in new modes of expression and cross-cultural consumption.
What is hybridization?
Believing that European ways are best and superior to all others.
What is eurocentrism?
An economic and political system whose purpose is to eliminate class distinctions. Everyone would work for the benefit of all and would receive help as he or she needs it.
What is Communism
How do we measure Standard of Living?
What are GDP and HDI
The primary organization that monitors and fights pandemics.
What is the World Health Organization
The process of affirming and promoting people's individual and collective cultural identity.
What is Cultural Revitalization
The route from Europe to Asia on which trade goods and ideas were exchanged
What is the Silk Road?
a tax imposed by a government on imported goods
What is a tariff?
The selling of a public service, such as electricity delivery or health care, to a private company so that the service is no longer owned by the government.
What is Privatizaiton
What are 3 forces of globalization?
What are media/ communication technologies, transportation, trade.