Globalization
Identity
Technology
Challenges
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A corporation that operates in two or more countries.
Transnational Corporation
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A person whose first language is French.
a) Anglophone
b) Francophone
c) Cultural
d) Quebecois
b) Francophone
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What is one example of a transnational media company?
Disney, Warner Brothers, CBS, ComCast, NewsCorp
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Define: a process that happens when the culture of a minority group is absorbed into another culture
a) Assimilation
b) Accommodation
c) Marginalization
d) Homogenization
a) Assimilation
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What are the three types of globalization?
Social, Political & Economic Globalization
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People's lifestyles spreading over the world.
Social Globalization
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Describes diversity of languages, beliefs, traditions, values, religions, and other parts of culture.
a) Marginalization
b) Multiculturalism
c) Transnational
d) Identity
b) Multiculturalism
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The styles, music, movies, and clothes that are currently popular.
a) Hybridization
b) Popular Culture
c) Multiculturalism
d) Technology
b) Popular Culture
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The documentary, Made in Bangladesh, shows how the clothing industry has been impacted by globalization. Which type of globalization is the main reason for this?
Economic Globalization
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True or False: Economic globalization has grown in the world.
True: each country is relying more on each other for goods.
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The process of people in the world becoming more and more interconnected and interdependent.
Globalization
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The mixing of identities and cultures in new and different ways.
a) Collective
b) Identity
c) Hybridization
d) Lubicon
c) Hybridization
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The CTRC (Canadian Radio and Television Commission) makes rules about....
a) Who deserves to live in Canada
b) Using music only from the USA
c) How much Canadian content that companies must use
d) Whether or not people should own radios
c) How much Canadian content that companies must use
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Multiple media platforms owned by the same company (media such as newspapers, books, TV and the Internet) work together to achieve a goal.
media convergence
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Which of the following BEST describes what is happening in the cartoon?
a) Assimilation
b) Accommodation
c) Marginalization
d) Homogenization
b) Accommodation
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One company hiring another company to make their products.
Outsourcing
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A way to restore a culture and stop it from disappearing.
a) Cultural Revitalization
b) Assimilation
c) Hybridization
d) Social Globalization
a) Cultural Revitalization
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Which of the following types of globalization BEST matches the cartoon?
a) Political and Social
b) Social and Economic
c) Economic and Political
b) Social and Economic
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Which of the following BEST describes what is happening in the cartoon?
a) Assimilation
b) Accommodation
c) Marginalization
d) Homogenization
a) Assimilation
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What does the APTN stand for and what is it's significance?
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
it serves to give indigenous people a voice in media
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The process of political decisions becoming more international.
Political Globalization
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Metis people are a mix of what two cultures?
a) French and First Nations
b) Nigerian and Canadian
c) Spanish and First Nations
d) Canadian and American
a) French and First Nations
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What is the following cartoon saying about globalization?
a) We need technology to survive
b) We are forcing globalization through the use of technology
c) Computers will help the world communicate better
b) We are forcing globalization through the use of technology
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The Digital divide was a term originally created to describe countries that didn't have access to computers. The definition has expanded to now include what?
The digital divide now takes into consideration access, or lack of access, to the Internet, as well
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Which of the following options BEST describes the image?
a) Globalization has positive impacts on the world
b) The USA is a mean country
c) Globalization allows countries, like the USA, to help other countries
d) Through globalization, the USA is able to violently take what they want
d) Through globalization, the USA is able to violently take what they want