Globalization in Action
Source: A drought reduces wheat production overseas. As a result, bread prices increase in Canada.
Question: What concept best explains how an event in one country affects people in another?
What is interdependence?
Source: A group of people shares a common language, ancestry, traditions, beliefs, and history.
Question: What type of identity is being described?
What is Collective identity?
Source: A corporation operates factories, offices, and stores in more than 40 countries.
Question: How would this corporation most accurately be classified?
What is a transnational corporation.
Source: One corporation purchases several newspapers, television networks, and radio stations.
Question: Which media concept is illustrated?
What is Media concentration?
Source: Quebec introduced legislation to strengthen the use of French in schools, workplaces, businesses, and public life.
Question: Which Quebec law is being described?
What is Bill 101 (the Charter of the French Language)?
Source: A Canadian company designs shoes in Vancouver, manufactures them in Vietnam, and sells them in stores around the world.
Question: Which dimension of globalization is most clearly illustrated?
What is Economic globalization.
Source: A newcomer to Canada learns English, adopts Canadian customs, and participates in Canadian celebrations while continuing to speak their traditional language at home.
Question: Which cultural process is best illustrated?
Acculturation
Source: A Canadian company moves its customer-service department to another country because labour costs are lower.
Question: Which economic practice is illustrated?
What is Outsourcing?
Source: A news organization publishes the same story through television, its website, a mobile app, and social media.
Question: Which media concept is illustrated?
What is Media convergence?
Source: A Canadian government organization regulates broadcasting and supports the presence of Canadian programming on television and radio.
Question: Which organization is being described?
What is the The CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)?
Speaker 1: "Global trade gives consumers access to products they cannot produce locally."
Speaker 2: "Depending on other countries makes us vulnerable to economic problems overseas."
Speaker 3: "International trade can lower production costs and consumer prices."
Question: Which speaker is most concerned about the risks of global interdependence?
Who is Speaker 2?
Source 1: Children are prohibited from speaking their traditional language and are pressured to abandon their cultural practices.
Source 2: A community establishes a school program to teach an endangered traditional language.
Question: Which two cultural processes are illustrated by Sources 1 and 2, respectively?
What are Assimilation and cultural revitalization?
Speaker 1: "Large retailers can offer lower prices because they purchase enormous quantities of products."
Speaker 2: "Small independent businesses struggle to compete with the prices offered by large corporations."
Speaker 3: "Large factories can produce each item more cheaply because they manufacture millions of products."
Question: Which economic concept best connects the statements of all three speakers?
What is Economies of scale?
Source 1: Families in remote communities cannot afford or access reliable high-speed internet.
Question: Which challenges associated with communication technologies are illustrated by Source 1?
What is Digital divide?
Source: Canada is home to many cultural communities that maintain their own languages, religious beliefs, and traditions while participating in Canadian society.
Question: Which concept best describes this type of society?
What is a pluralistic society?
Source 1: A community depends on food imported from other countries.
Source 2: A factory depends on customers in several foreign countries.
Source 3: A community organizes programs to teach its traditional language.
Question: Which two sources provide the strongest evidence of economic interdependence?
What are Sources 1 and 2?
Source: An international restaurant chain introduces a new meal combining its traditional products with local ingredients and cooking traditions.
Question: Which cultural process does this best illustrate?
What is Cultural hybridization?
Speaker 1: "Our company operates factories in 15 countries."
Speaker 2: "Our company purchases products from a factory overseas."
Speaker 3: "Our company has offices and retail stores in more than 30 countries."
Speaker 4: "Our company sells locally manufactured products in one city."
Question: Which two speakers provide the strongest evidence of transnational corporations?
Who are Speakers 1 and 3?
Source: Students in Canada participate in a live online discussion with students in Japan, Kenya, and Brazil. They exchange information instantly despite living thousands of kilometres apart.
Question: Which concept associated with Marshall McLuhan is best illustrated?
What is the Global village?
Source: Resource development disrupts the natural environment used by an Indigenous community for traditional hunting, trapping, and cultural activities.
Question: Which aspect of Indigenous collective identity is most directly threatened by this development?
What is the community's relationship to the land?
Speaker 1: "Globalization creates jobs, increases trade, and provides consumers with lower prices."
Speaker 2: "Globalization allows powerful corporations to exploit workers and threaten local cultures."
Speaker 3: "Globalization provides economic opportunities, but governments must protect workers and cultural diversity."
Question: Which speaker presents the most balanced perspective on globalization?
Who is Speaker 3?
Speaker 1: "Young people in our community increasingly wear the same international brands and consume the same entertainment as people around the world."
Speaker 2: "Our community has created programs to restore traditional ceremonies and languages."
Speaker 3: "Our community has combined some outside cultural practices with our own traditions."
Question: Identify the cultural processes described by Speakers 1, 2, and 3, respectively.
What are Cultural homogenization, cultural revitalization, and cultural hybridization?
Speaker 1: "A recession overseas caused our factory to lose one of its largest customers."
Speaker 2: "A drought in another country caused the price of imported coffee to increase."
Speaker 3: "Our company moved its manufacturing operations overseas to reduce labour costs."
Speaker 4: "A conflict overseas disrupted the supply of materials needed by Canadian factories."
Question: Which three speakers provide the strongest evidence of the risks of global economic interdependence?
Who are Speakers 1, 2, and 4?
Speaker 1: "Electronic communication allows people around the world to interact almost instantly."
Speaker 2: "The technology used to communicate influences how people experience and understand information."
Speaker 3: "The internet has made it possible for cultural traditions to spread beyond national borders."
Speaker 4: "People who spend excessive amounts of time online may become disconnected from face-to-face relationships."
Question: Which speaker most directly describes Marshall McLuhan's idea that the medium is the message?
Who is Speaker 2?
Source: An Indigenous nation reclaims a culturally significant object and displays it in a community gathering place. Community leaders explain that it represents their shared history, traditions, and continuing identity as a nation.
Question: Which response to challenges to collective identity is most strongly illustrated?
What is Affirmation of collective identity?