Unit 1: Identity
Sharing of ideas and cultures between different people in different countries
What is Social Globalization?
This event in the late 15th century significantly impacted global trade, as it involved the forced movement of African people to the Americas to work on plantations.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
These are multinational companies that operate in multiple countries and often have significant influence over global markets.
This is a measure used to determine the economic and social well-being of a country, often including factors such as income, employment, and education.
What is Standard of Living?
This is the largest global organization, formed after World War II, with the goal of promoting peace, security, and cooperation among nations.
What is the United Nations?
This term refers to the way a person or group sees themselves and is shaped by various factors, including culture, experiences, and values.
What is Identity?
This economic system, which became dominant during the colonial period, emphasized accumulating wealth through trade and exploiting colonies for resources.
What is Mercantilism?
This agreement, signed in 1994 between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, aimed to increase trade and reduce trade barriers between the three countries.
What is NAFTA?
This term refers to a measure of a person's or community's well-being, encompassing factors such as health, education, and personal safety.
What is Qaulity of life?
This term describes the cultural, social, and economic integration of various groups within a society, which can result in greater diversity and new ideas.
What is multiculturalism?
This process describes the blending of different cultural influences to create a new, hybrid form of identity.
What is cultural hybridization?
One of the earliest forms of Globalization.
What is the Silk Road?
This international financial institution provides loans and grants to countries for the purpose of pursuing economic development projects.
What is the World Bank?
This is the term for a situation in which individuals or communities lack sufficient access to basic needs such as food, shelter, and clean water.
What is poverty?
This term refers to the movement of people from rural areas to cities, often driven by economic opportunities in urban centers.
What is urbanization?
This concept involves the identification with, and attachment to, a particular group, such as a nation, culture, or community.
What is collective Identity?
This term refers to an individual or company involved in the buying and selling of goods, typically on a large scale. They existed along stops on the Silk Road.
What is a merchant?
This international agreement, signed in 1997, aimed to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and was a significant example of global political cooperation on environmental issues.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
This type of sustainability focuses on the responsible use of natural resources, ensuring that ecosystems can regenerate and maintain ecological balance.
What is environmental sustainability?
This international financial institution was created to promote global economic stability by offering loans to developing countries and overseeing international monetary policies. Often used in emergencies.
This international financial institution was created to promote global economic stability by offering loans to developing countries and overseeing international monetary policies.
This term describes the process through which individuals adopt and incorporate aspects of a particular culture, often when they move to a new society.
What is acculturation?
The spread of European influence through military conquest, economic domination, and cultural imposition during the 19th century is often referred to as this.
What is imperialism?
This organization, founded in 1995, regulates international trade and works to reduce tariffs and other trade barriers between countries.
What is the World Trade Organization?
The sum of GDP, education, and quality of life for a country.
What makes up the Human Development Index?
This document, adopted in 1948, outlines fundamental human rights that should be protected for all people, regardless of nationality or background.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?