Cultural Globalization
Inclusive practice where diverse groups are accepted while retaining distinct identities.
What is Accommodation?
Process of providing equal opportunities and participation for diverse groups.
What is Integration?
System where monarchs strictly controlled trade to maximize exports over imports.
Belief that one's own culture is superior, judging others by its standards.
What is Ethnocentrism?
Primary government policy aimed at Indigenous peoples driving the school system.
What is Assimilation?
Individual or group adapts to a new culture through exposure, changing both cultures.
What is Acculturation?
Pushing a group or individual to the fringes of society, limiting power.
What is Marginalization?
System based on private ownership, free market competition, and profit motive.
What is Capitalism?
Specific form of ethnocentrism viewing European values as superior and central.
What is Eurocentrism?
Institutions that primarily managed and operated federally funded residential schools.
What are Christian churches?
Minority group adapts to prevailing customs, often losing original identity.
What is Assimilation?
Concentration of media outlet ownership into the hands of a few large corporations.
What is Media Concentration?
Rapid transition from agricultural societies to industrial manufacturing in Britain.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Misapplication of evolutionary theory to human societies to justify conquest. This term refers to stronger nations taking over weaker nations because it would benefit everyone in the long run.
What is Social Darwinism?
Mid-1950s to 1980s practice of removing Indigenous children for non-Indigenous adoption.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
Efforts by a group to restore, preserve, and promote traditional language and heritage.
What is Cultural Revitalization?
Ancient trade route network connecting East Asia with Europe and North Africa.
What is The Silk Road?
Extending a country's power over other territories through force or colonization.
What is Imperialism?
Access to raw materials, cheap labor, and new consumer markets.
What are Methods of Imperialism?
Commission that delivered its final report and 94 Calls to Action in 2015.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission? (TRC)
Blending elements from distinct cultures to create new cultural expressions.
Blending elements from distinct cultures to create new cultural expressions.
Spread of common cultural values and media globally, leading to homogenization.
What is Universalization?
Adam Smith's concept of market forces naturally guiding a free economy.
What is the "invisible Hand"?
Maxim machine guns, steamships, and industrial infrastructure.
Lasting consequence involving the passed-down loss of language, culture, and well-being.
What is Intergenerational Trauma?