Globalization Basics
The process by which people around the world become increasingly interconnected through trade, media, and migration.
What is Globalization?
This factor of identity is considered a primary tool for thinking, communication, and cultural expression.
What is Language?
It occurs when an ethnic group loses its distinct culture and is absorbed into a dominant group.
What is Assimilation?
The original inhabitants of a country; in Canada, this includes First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.
Who are Aboriginal peoples?
A native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a nation or government.
Who is a Citizen?
A term describing how electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers, allowing people to interact worldwide.
What is the Global Village?
First Nations people traditionally view their existence as being of equal importance to these two things.
What are Plants and Animals?
The mixing of different cultural elements to produce something new, such as the Métis culture.
What is Hybridization?
A person who speaks French as his or her first language.
Who is a Francophone?
A society that celebrates individual and group differences as something that enriches the social fabric.
What is a Pluralistic Society?
This term refers to a mental view or outlook shaped by a group's value system, background, and experiences.
What is Perspective?
This factor involves inherited, established, or customary patterns of thought, action, or behavior.
What is Tradition?
A process where all cultures gradually lose distinctive features, resulting in a single "monoculture."
What is Homogenization?
The Aboriginal inhabitants of Canada’s Far North with a distinctive culture and language.
Who are the Inuit?
Acceptance or sympathy for beliefs or practices different from one’s own.
What is Tolerance?
He wrote "No man is an island," a phrase illustrating that individuals are interconnected members of mankind.
Who is John Donne?
These are general beliefs about what is right, moral, and desirable.
What are Values?
Change in cultures resulting from exposure to each other, where they become more alike but remain distinct.
What is Acculturation?
A rebirth or newfound interest and growth in a culture, such as that experienced by the Métis.
What is Cultural Revitalization?
This term refers to the speech habits peculiar to a particular person.
What is an Idiolect?
The study of the origin and nature of people, or a body of beliefs belonging to an individual or group.
What is Ideology?
In some cultures, this factor of identity forbids using the human form or photography.
What are the Arts?
When a less dominant group takes on habits of the dominant society but no longer feels they belong to any group.
What is Marginalization?
The first people to live in Canada, formerly known as Canadian "Indian" individuals and communities.
Who are the First Nations?
The process of joining various ethnic groups into a common society with generally accepted values.
What is Integration?