Protecting Culture
When a minority culture is forced to completely give up its traditions and blend into the dominant culture.
What is assimilation?
Schools created by the Canadian government to force Indigenous children away from their families and wipe out their culture.
What are residential schools?
An international group that sets global rules for trade and helps different countries resolve business arguments.
What is the WTO (World Trade Organization)?
Basic protections, freedoms, and fairness that belong to every single person in the world simply because they are human.
What are human rights?
A measure of a person’s overall well-being, including their health, safety, freedoms, happiness, and access to food and shelter.
What is quality of life?
An active effort by a community to bring back, strengthen, and celebrate a language or culture that was almost lost.
What is cultural revitalization?
The strict 1876 Canadian law that gave the government total control over the land, lives, and identity of First Nations peoples.
What is the Indian Act?
An international group created after World War II to lend money to struggling countries so they can rebuild their economies.
What is the World Bank?
Poorly regulated factories, often in developing nations, where employees work long hours in dangerous conditions for very low pay.
What are sweatshops?
When a large group of consumers refuses to buy products from a specific company to protest bad working conditions or environmental harm.
What is a boycott?
A Canadian law passed in 1971 to ensure all citizens can keep their identities, take pride in their ancestry, and have a sense of belonging.
What is the Multiculturalism Act?
The historical legal treaties signed between the Canadian government and First Nations to share land in Western Canada.
What are the Numbered Treaties?
The invention of large, identical metal boxes that made it incredibly cheap and fast to move goods on ships, trains, and trucks.
What is containerization?
The famous 1948 United Nations document that listed the basic rights that every person on Earth should always have.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Non-profit groups that work completely separate from any government to help people with human rights, poverty, or disasters.
What are NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)?
When a cultural group is pushed to the edges of society, giving them less power and fewer choices.
What is marginalization?
The official group created to listen to residential school survivors and teach Canadians about the dark history of those schools.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)?
An economic system where the government stays out of business choices, allowing prices to be set by supply and demand.
What is a market economy (or capitalism)?
People who are forced to escape their home country because of war, violence, or dangerous persecution.
What are refugees?
A trade movement that ensures farmers and workers in developing nations get paid a fair price for products like coffee or cocoa.
What is fair trade?
The government organization that sets rules for Canadian TV and radio to make sure a fair amount of Canadian content is played.
What is the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)?
A fee that Canada made Chinese immigrants pay between 1885 and 1923 to try and stop them from moving into the country.
What is the Chinese Head Tax?
Taxes that a government places on imported goods coming in from other countries to make them more expensive.
What are tariffs?
The unequal gap between wealthy countries and poorer, developing nations when it comes to having access to computers and the internet.
What is the digital divide?
Understanding that your personal choices affect people worldwide, and taking action to help make the world a better, fairer place.
What is global citizenship?