Unit 1: identity
When one culture takes over and eliminates another culture.
What is assimilation?
This worldview places the benefits to Europe above all else; believing that European culture is superior
What is Eurocentric?
The elimination of tariffs and trade barriers.
What is trade liberalization OR free trade?
Support given to countries in need, whether in the form of money, people, or supplies, is known as what?
What is foreign aid?
When the government uses trade barriers to promote the well-being of their own businesses over foreign companies.
What is protectionism?
The ownership of media companies in the hands of only a few individuals or corporations.
What is media concentration?
These were used in Canada to assimilate indigenous culture and “kill the Indian in the child”
What are residential schools?
Organization that lends money to countries that are struggling.
What is the IMF or the World Bank?
The gap between wealthy and poor individuals, communities or countries.
What is disparity?
The long-lasting negative impacts experienced by indigenous children that grew up in residential school.
What are legacies?
When an individual or a group of individuals practice aspects of another culture.
What is acculturation?
Economic practice during the 1500s to 1800s, by which European monarchs sponsored businesses, with the goal of making themselves (“the mother country”) rich.
What is mercantilism?
Critics say it led to Canada and the United States losing jobs to Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
Text adopted in 1948 by the United Nations, stipulating that all human beings are equal in political, civil, economic, social and cultural terms, and in terms of justice.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
The USMCA trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the USA is an example of this dimension of globalization.
What is economic globalization?
Successful incorporation of an individual into a group, or of a minority group into society in general.
What is integration?
The transition from a rural and artisanal (cottage industry) society to an urban and industrial society.
What is industrialization OR the industrial revolution?
Agreement signed after the Second World War, the purpose of which was to establish rules, institutions and procedures for the postwar global economy.
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement/Conference?
Standard of living measures economic well-being, but this measures additional things like happiness and fullfilment.
What is quality of life?
A policy of economic, political, and social domination of a colony; used social Darwinism as its justification.
What is imperialism?
Mixing two or more cultural elements in new ways.
What is hybridization?
On this continent, decolonization from the imperialist powers often resulted in: dictatorships, instability, civil war, genocide.
What is Africa?
What is it called when a company sends (part of) its production process overseas?
What is outsourcing?
An arrangement where increased prices for companies/consumers means that the producers in developing countries will receive fair wages.
What is fair trade?
The responsibility of ensuring that the planet's resources will last for future generations.
What is stewardship OR sustainability?