Key Terms
What is globalization?
the process by which the world’s citizens are becoming increasingly connected to and dependent on one another.
What are traditions?
customs, rituals, festivals, and practices that reflect their cultural heritage, values, and shared history.
What is culture?
the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.
What is acculturation?
the process by which people from one culture come into contact with and adopt elements of another culture.
What is language revitalization?
Efforts to bring a language that is at risk of extinction back into daily use, through community programs, education, and technology.
What is political globalization?
the process by which political decisions and actions are becoming increasingly international.
What are the four forces of globalization?
Trade, transportation, communication technology, media.
What is media?
the main means of mass communication (broadcasting, publishing, and the internet) regarded collectively.
What is accommodation?
Occurs when different cultural groups in Canada adapt to one another’s needs and values without losing their distinct identities.
What is the difference between bilingualism and multilingualism?
Bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages and multilingualism is the ability to speak three or more.
What is social globalization?
the process by which people’s lifestyles spread over global networks.
Give me 3 examples of role models.
Role models embody values, aspirations, and achievements that reflect a group's cultural, social, or political identity.
Leaders, athletes, activists, and public figures
What is diversification?
The process by which global culture diversifies and adapts to local cultural contexts.
What is assimilation?
Occurs when a cultural group gives up its distinct characteristics and fully adopts the dominant culture’s way of life.
What is the Official Language Act (1969)?
This law makes English and French the official languages of Canada, ensuring that federal government services are available in both languages.
What is Americanization?
The influence of the American culture and economy on other countries outside the United States, including their media, cuisine, business practices, popular culture, technology and political techniques.
What is one specific way people express identity?
Tradition, religion, language, the arts, appearance, role modelling and relationship to land
What is universalization?
the spread of cultural products, ideas, and practices worldwide.
What is marginalization?
Happens when a cultural group is pushed to the edges of society and is excluded from important social, economic, or political processes.
Why did Indigenous languages across North America begin to decline?
Residential schools, laws prohibiting speaking languages, sixties scoop.
What is economic globalization?
the process of expanding world trading networks
What aspect of identity does hunting fall into?
Relationship to land
What is hybridization?
The blending of local and global cultural elements to create new, hybrid cultural forms.
What is cultural revitalization?
The effort to bring back or preserve traditional cultural practices and beliefs.
Give me 3 ways language can be revitalized.
Immersion schools, online learning, apps, language programs etc.