The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is globalization?
The attempt to spread a nation’s political, economic, or cultural influence
The economic system that promotes private property and the accumulation of wealth.
What is capitalism?
An individual who moves from their home country to seek a better life and economic opportunity.
What is an immigrant?
What is Official Bilingualism?
When two cultures come together and mix different parts
What is hybridization?
The trade system that sent slaves to North America, plantation goods (tobacco, sugar) to Europe, and weapons and alcohol was sent to Africa.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade or Columbian Exchange?
A company that operates in at least two different countries
What is a Transnational Corportation (TNC)?
The social construct that men and women have specific jobs made for them
What are gender roles?
This cartoon best shows this economic system.
What is mercantilism?
The consumption of Coca Cola and Apple products and listening to K-Pop music, and watching BBC's Sherlock in China.
What is universalization of pop-culture?
The commission that recognized and addressed the concerns over residential schools and providing compensation.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
When a company moves some, but not all, of its business operations to a new country.
What is outsourcing?
The standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or group.
What is quality of life?
To believe that your way of living is the best way.
What is ethnocentrism?
When people are able to preserve parts of their culture in new countries that they have immigrated recently.
What is accommodation?
The meaning of apartness in Afrikaans, the racial separation in South Africa
What is the Apartheid?
The most common tool to measure a country's wealth.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
The widespread protest against the WTO in Seattle in 1999.
What is the Battle in Seattle?
This is when a person stops purchasing a certain company's products.
What is a boycott?
The purpose of this is to preserve protect and promote distinct Canadian cultural identities on TV.
What is the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission)?
The piece of legislature that was intended to completely assimilate Indigenous Canadians
What is the Indian Act of 1876?
The Indigenous ways of knowing that focuses on the maitenence of land, using only what you need.
What is stewardship?
What are pandemics?
What is the Race to the Bottom?