Identity
What is one factor that makes up someones identity?
Language, traditions, family, religion, culture, interests...
What was traded in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on the "Triangle Trade Route"?
Enslaved people, raw materials, and manufactured goods
What is Adam Smith’s most famous economic idea?
The "invisible hand"—the idea that free markets regulate themselves through supply and demand.
What is imperialism?
A policy of extending a country’s power through colonization, use of military force, or other means. Promoting this belief that your way of life is the superior way of life.
What is one example of a historical injustice Indigenous Peoples faced in Canada?
Residential schools, 60's Scoop, loss of land, the Indian Act, etc
Give me an example of Assimilation, and how does it relate to identity?
The Indigenous people in Canada being placed in Residential School. The goal of Assimilation is to erase someones cultural identity, hence its relation to identity.
What was a major impact on African societies due to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
Depopulation, destruction on communities, long-term economic destabilization.
What is the title of Adam Smith’s most famous book?
The Wealth of Nations.
Name one motive behind European imperialism.
Economic gain, spreading religion, nationalism, or the belief in cultural superiority.
What was the purpose of residential schools?
To assimilate Indigenous children into European/Canadian culture and erase their Indigenous identity.
How does globalization challenge and also strengthen a person's identity?
How did the legacies left from the slave trade influence social structures in the America's moving forward.
It led to the development of systemic racism and social hierarchies based on race.
How does Adam Smith’s idea of the “invisible hand” support economic globalization?
It promotes free-market economies with minimal government intervention, which is a foundation of global trade, and the reason global markets are able to be connected.
What does the term “Eurocentrism” mean in the context of imperialism?
The belief that European culture and values are superior to others and should dominate.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)?
A commission created to document the experiences of residential school survivors and promote healing and reconciliation. Leading to 94 Calls to Action to address Indigenous Legacies still affecting Indigenous communities today.
Cultural Revitalization, how is it related to identity in a globalized world?
Cultural revitalization is the process of promoting individual or collective cultural identity that is often forced out or lost on account of a globalized world.
How does the legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade still affect global societies today?
Ongoing racial inequality, economic disparity, and social justice movements like Black Lives Matter.
In what way might critics say Adam Smith’s ideas ignore the human cost of capitalism? (What are the downfalls of Capitalism?)
They may lead to exploitation, inequality, and prioritize profits over people’s well-being.
How did imperialism contribute to the spread of globalization?
It expanded European influence, trade networks, languages, and ideologies across the world, often by force.
How have Indigenous Peoples in Canada resisted the legacy of colonization?
Through language revitalization, cultural resurgence, political activism, land claims, and education.
Explain how accommodation and assimilation affect identity differently?
Accommodation is a way of respecting and allowing different cultures to be present and coexist. While Assimilation is the forced elimination of a cultural group to conform into the more dominant culture.
Explain the process of how the Transatlantic Slave Trade contributed to early globalization.
It connected continents through economic trade networks, moved people and cultures across the globe (often forcibly), and laid the foundation for global capitalism and colonial economies.
Adam Smith's theory promotes a Capitalist Economy, what is a different kind of economic system, and explain how it works.
Socialism, a system which introduces large government involvement and regulation of trade and services. Aimed at creating a completely equal social system.
Explain how imperialism and ethnocentrism led to long-term consequences for colonized nations.
They led to the suppression of local cultures, economic dependency, political instability, and identity loss that many former colonies still deal with today.
How does the concept of “historical globalization” apply to the relationship between Canada and Indigenous Peoples?
Historical globalization includes colonization and imperial policies that marginalized Indigenous Peoples and shaped Canada’s foundations, leaving legacies still present today in societal inequalities and reconciliation efforts.