Types of Globalization
The movement of goods and services across borders.
What is Economic Globalization?
The way individuals see themselves in relation to their nation, culture, and beliefs.
What is Identity?
Social media, celebrities, and video games are examples of this culture.
What is popular culture?
Canada is described by Diefenbaker as a garden, not a melting pot. This reflects what other symbolism we learned in class?
What is a Mosaic?
If fast food chains replace traditional local restaurants, critics might argue this threatens what?
What is local culture?
The spread of ideas, music, fashion, and language worldwide.
The loss of unique cultural traditions due to globalization.
What is Cultural Homogenization?
The CRTC ensures this in Canada.
What is Canadian Content?
When cultural groups maintain traditions while participating fully in society, this is often described as:
What is intergration?
When a minority language begins to disappear because younger generations adopt a dominant global language, this concern is being demonstrated.
What is a loss of Cultural Identity?
International organizations like the UN or WTO are examples of this type.
What is Political Globalization?
When minority cultures are absorbed into dominant cultures.
What is Assimilation?
If a small number of corporations control most media outlets, critics argue this leads to uniform viewpoints.
What is concentration of media ownership?
When governments debate whether immigrants should preserve their culture or adapt to the dominant culture, they are debating this issue.
What is integration vs assimilation?
When multinational corporations move factories to countries with lower wages and weaker labour laws, critics argue this leads to this problem.
What is worker exploitation?
Climate change and global pandemics show this type of interconnectedness.
What is Environmental Globalization?
The idea that diversity strengthens society.
What is Multiculturalism?
When television, film, and music are produced by large global corporations and consumed worldwide, this process is occurring.
What is the universalization of pop culture?
Bill 101 is also known as this.
What is the Charter of the French Language?
If a country adopts the “melting pot” model, cultural differences are expected to do what?
What is blending into one dominant culture?
When Indigenous groups work to preserve and promote their traditional language and customs, this process is occurring.
What is cultural Revitalization?
When a dominant culture makes concessions for minority religious groups.
What is an accommodation?
When a news network presents events from only one perspective, critics might say it lacks this.
What is diversity?
If one perspective argues that diversity enriches society while another claims it weakens shared values, this demonstrates what concept?
What is competing perspectives?
If citizens rely primarily on social media algorithms for news, critics argue this may create what kind of environment?
What is an echo chamber?