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An inclusive approach that allows religious or ethnic groups to maintain their distinctive cultures within mainstream society.
What is Accommodation?
The beliefs, customs, and arts of a particular society, group, or place.
What is Culture?
A society that embeds diversity as part of its foundation.
What is a Pluralistic society?
What is cultural revitalization?
The process helps cultures regain a sense of identity.
When a group is pushed to the margins of society with little power.
What is Marginalization?
Evaluating other cultures according to the standards of your own.
What is Ethnocentrism?
The blending of media and technologies that create new modes of expression.
What is Hybridization?
Created in 1968, this organization regulates Canadian TV and radio to promote Canadian content.
What is the CRTC?
The process by which people or countries become more and more similar to the United States due to media and corporate influence.
What is Americanization?
The process that makes the world’s citizens increasingly interdependent economically, socially, politically, environmentally, and technologically.
What is Globalization?
Occurs when one company controls all the outlets of various television and radio.
What is media consoliation?
The process where cultural differences are eroded and replaced with a uniform global culture.
What is Homogenization of Culture?
A trend toward uniformity in world popular culture as a result of globalization.
What is Homogenization?
Canadian media outlets dedicated to protecting and promoting Canadian culture.
What is the CBC?
The policy that recognizes both French and English as Canada’s official languages, guaranteeing government services in both.
What is Official Bilingualism?
A language spoken by a smaller group within a larger population, often requiring protection to survive.
What is a Minority Language?
Occurs when various platforms (television, radio, books, movies, video games) all share the same media product.
What is media convergence?
The principle of separating government and institutions from religious influence.
What is Secularism?
Change as a result of contact with other cultural groups.
What is Acculturation?
The absorption of a minority group by a dominant group, sometimes by force.
What is Assimilation?
The languages given legal status in a country, such as English and French in Canada.
What are Official Languages?
The British North America Act that created Canada and set the framework for federal and provincial powers.
What is the BNA Act (1867)?
The uniform global culture that results from globalization.
What is Monoculture?
The combination of beliefs, values, history, and language that defines a group of people.
What is Collective Identity?
The natural incorporation of diverse minority groups into mainstream society over time.
What is Integration?
Media that meets specific requirements to promote and protect Canadian artists, stories, and perspectives.
What is Canadian Content (CanCon)?
The movement of people from one region or country to another, often in search of work or opportunity. It is the leading cause of Canada's multicultural identity.
What is Migration?
The incorporation of minority groups into mainstream society, often occurring naturally over time.
What is Integration?
A corporation that operates in two or more countries.
What is a multinational/transnational corporation?
The traits and characteristics that make up a person’s unique sense of self.
What is Individual Identity?