The belief that European concerns, cultures and values are superior to those of others.
What is Eurocentrism
100
The mixing of identities and cultures in new and different ways
What is hybridization
100
The policy of one country extending political, economic, or military control over another
What is imperialism
100
Something handed down from the past
What is legacy
100
An agreement signed by the Allied countries in 1944 that established a number of financial institutions
What is Bretton Woods Agreement
200
What is the name given to a French speaking person?
What is a Francophone
200
What does HIPC stand for?
What is Heavily Indebted Poor Country
200
A government-owned business created to proivde essential products and services to people
What is Crown corportation
200
Putting a group of people in a lower or powerless position within society
What is marginalization
200
Level of material comfort as measued by the goods, services and luxuries avialbe to an individual, community, or nation
What is standard of living
300
A system of basic principles by which a country is ruled
What is a constitution
300
A change in an individual or a group that results from contact with another group.
What is acculturation
300
The process by which a minority culture adopts a dominant culture and is absorbed into it. It often involves the loss of language.
What is assimilation
300
Industries that use knowledge to produce economic benefits
What is Knowledge economy
300
The process of reducing barriers to trade
What is trade liberalization
400
The process of expanding world trading networks.
What is economic globalization
400
Government in which power is held by the people under a system of free elections.
What is democracy
400
Term used to discribe individuals and groups who protest against global trade agreements, which, they claim, only help more developed countries get richer at the expense of less developed countries.
What is Anti-globalization
400
An economic system based on free markets, private ownership of business and industry and the profit motive
What is capitalism
400
An organized campaign in which consumers refuse to purchase goods or services from a business or country beacause they disagree with its policies
What is a boycott
500
The process by which the world's citzens are becoming increasingly connected to an dependent on one another
What is Globalization
500
The interaction of two or more independent cultures
What is cultural contact
500
The rapid transition from agriculture based economy to a manufacturing based economy
What is the Industrail revolution
500
The opening of an industry to more competition by removing government regulations originally put in place to limit competition
What is deregulation
500
A boarding school set up for the purpose of educating and assimilating Aboriginal children