Terms
Economics
Identity
History
Pop Culture
100
Increase of interconnection of society socially, politically and economically.
What is globalization?
100
Prime the Pump.
What is the Keynesian economic theory?
100
A person who speaks french as their native language. A person who speaks english as their first language.
What is a francophone? An anglophone?
100
Were established to assimilate first nations children and make them more european.
What is a Residential School?
100
The practice of creating a barrier to shield a country's domestic industries from foreign competition. This is done by taxing imports.
What is protectionism?
200
A company that is based in one country while it developes and manufactures its products, goods and services in more than one country.
What is a TNC?
200
Father of Communism.
Who is Karl Marks?
200
Certain beliefs and values that identify an individual as part of a collective group.
What is Collective identity?
200
Passed by canadian parliament in 1876 and amended several times since then. Defines who and isn't a status indian.
What is the Indian act?
200
Growing this food caused a great uproar because of the unfair and unsafe treatment of the workers. The food was greatly advertised in America so that consumers would buy large quantities of it.
What is the Banana Trade?
300
Formed to increase global cooperation. Works on economic and social development programs, reducing global conflicts and improving human rights.Formed to increase global cooperation. Works on economic and social development programs, reducing global conflicts and improving human rights.Formed to increase global cooperation. Works on economic and social development programs, reducing global conflicts and improving human rights.
What is the United Nations?
300
Reduces tariffs and helps with trade liberalization.
What is NAFTA?
300
A trade that took place across the atlantic ocean where african peoples were taken in to be slaves.
What is the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade?
300
Finding a quick trade route to India in search or spices and oriental goods?
What is Christopher Columbus' original trade route?
300
Is Walmart encouraging their employees to get government assistance? Why are they doing this? Does it hurt or help their total revenue?
Yes they are. They pay their workers so low that they qualify for government assistance. They do this so they don't have to pay benefits for their workers. It helps their revenue because they make extra money by not paying their workers fairly.
400
The blending together of citizens is described as...?
What is the melting pot?
400
A composed statistic of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators. Ranks countries into four tiers.
What is HDI?
400
Stabling french schools in english speaking parts of the world is an example of
What is Affirming Identity?
400
A metal that is mined in Congo and is used in technology today. The miners are treated brutally and have terrible working conditions.
What is coltan mining?
400
Explain the Rwandan genocide.
The killing of more than 500,000 Tutsis by rival (and majority) Hutus in Rwanda in 1994. There had been conflict between the two populations for many years before the massacre.
500
The mix of ethnic groups, language and cultures is described as ..?
What is cultural mosaic?
500
IMF, Word Bank, WTO.
What are the outcomes of the Bretton Woods conference?
500
What is ethnocentrism?
The belief that a one culture is superior to another.
500
A country that established colonies for the good of their economy.
What is a mother country?
500
How does pop culture affect society today?
Pop culture affects society today by sparking consumerism. It sparks consumerism by advertising using celebrity brand ambassadors. Since people want to be like celebrities they buy things that they don't need and the companies that make the products get more revenue.
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