Terms and Stuff
Define globalization?
Answers may vary
Hybridization is the idea of two different cultures exisitng in the same place without ever overlapping. True or False?
False
How many continents are in the world, if you are counting Oceania?
7
Univeralization of popular culture involves people around the world enjoying the same pop culture
True
What year did World War 2 end?
1945
What is social globalization?
Example: people, ideas, media, and information moving across borders
the globalization of what involves things like music, entertainment and sport from one place becoming popular?
Pop culture
Economics
Traditional culture
Non-Western societies
Pop culture
The media transnational company Samsung is based in which country?
South Korea
The CRTC controls the languages that are protected by law in Canada
False (do a little Google Search if you are not sure what it is!)
How many Time Zones are in Canada?
6 (Pacific, Mountain, Central. Eastern, Atlantic, Newfoundland Time)
"An organization hiring people living outside it's operaitng area to do work for them (for example, Telus having call centers in India)" is an example of what?
Economic globalization
Outsourcing
Assimilation
Discrimination
Outsourcing
Havign a shared feeling of belonging with others is called what kind of identity?
Individual
Collective
Linguistic
Economic
Collective
Canada lost to which country in both the men's and women's ice hockey gold medal game at the Olympics this year?
USA
Monoculture is the existence of multiple cultures in the same socierty
False
Spell the last names of Mr N. and Mr. O.
Mr Nantais
Mr Oosterhuis
What does cultural revitalization mean?
Bringing back culture
Define hybridization?
Answers may vary
Michif is the language of which Indigenous people?
The Metis
The creation of a dictionary for an extinct language like Ainu is an example of cultural revitalization
True
Which position in Canadian government is the "go-between" connection between the UK monarch and Canada?
The Governor General
Define "homogenization"
Process of making things similar or the same
Give two reasons why languages disapper?
Ex:
English has become more dominant globally
International business favours popular languages
Young people are not learning traditional languages as much
Sacramento is the capital city of which US State?
California
Globalization is defiend as the goal of elimianting all nation-states and creating one giant mega-country
False. (it is more about the world's people being more connected that before)
How many Pokemon are in the first generation?
151