Multinational Corporations
This corporation is associated with the Hamburglar and has the Shamrock Shake in its menu.
What is McDonalds?
This term is used for a language that acts as a universal language for people that do not speak the same native language.
What is Lingua Franca?
This overarching type of diffusion involves the physical movement of individuals who carry an idea or innovation to a new location.
What is Relocation Diffusion?
The belief in or worship of more than one god?
What is polytheism?
The activity or practice of traveling for pleasure, recreation, or business
What is tourism?
This term describes the global networks used by MNCs to trace a product from its raw material extraction to its final sale in a retail store.
What is a Commodity Chain? (Also accept: Global Supply Chain)
This term is for the industrial sector of the economy that processes raw materials into manufactured finished goods.
What is the Secondary Sector?
The Hantavirus spreading on the cruiseship a good example of this type of diffusion.
What is Contagious Diffusion?
This specific type of culture is large, incorporates heterogeneous populations, is typically urban, and experiences quickly changing cultural traits via global media.
What is popular culture? (Pop Culture)
The revolutionary logistics system using standardized, stackable steel boxes to dramatically lower cargo loading times and international freight costs.
What is Containerization
This term describes the subtle economic control that Core-based MNCs exert over Periphery nations, mirroring historic colonial relationships without direct political rule.
What is Neocolonialism?
This term is to describe the coexistence of global and local forces, where a global product or service is customized or adapted to fit the specific cultural preferences of local markets.
A dialect that blends elements of two languages to create a simplified third language for basic trade communication among diffusing groups.
What is a Pidgin Language?
The phenomenon where global digital networks compress spatial distances, accelerating the velocity at which cultural trends diffuse.
What is Space-Time Compression? (Also accepted: Time-Space Convergence)
A narrow, strategic geographic waterway or land passage—like the Strait of Malacca or the Suez Canal—that can be easily blocked, disrupting global trade.
What is a Chokepoint?
This inventory strategy allows MNCs to drastically cut storage costs by shipping parts to factories right as they are needed for assembly.
What is Just-In-Time Delivery?
A manufacturing framework characterized by highly flexible, automated production lines designed to shift quickly to meet changing consumer.
What is Post-Fordism?
The diffusion of agricultural techniques during the Green Revolution to developing countries is best categorized as this type of diffusion.
What is Hierarchical Diffusion?
The practice of judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture, often leading to a sense of superiority.
What is ethnocentrism?
An economic theory stating that less-developed countries remain structurally trapped in poverty because international trade dynamics are intentionally manipulated by core nations to keep them dependent.
What is Dependency Theory?
This is the name of a foreign-owned manufacturing factory in Mexico.
What is a Maquiladora?
This is the term for a business practice where a company hires external, third-party providers to perform tasks, handle operations, or provide services that are typically handled in-house.
What is outsourcing?
This term describes a landscape that has lost its unique regional identity due to the relentless diffusion of global corporate architecture.
What is placelessness?
The intense emotional attachment to a unique local geography, which communities often try to preserve to combat the alienating effects of global placelessness.
What is a Sense of Place?
A designated geographic location, such as a major marine port or rail yard, where cargo is shifted from one mode of transportation to another.
What is Break-Of-Bulk Point?