Global Identity
Historical Globalization
Economic Globalization
Globalization and You
Extra Terms
100
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is globalization?
100
The attempt to spread a nation’s political, economic, or cultural influence
What is imperialism?
100
The economic system that promotes private property and the accumulation of wealth.
What is capitalism?
100
An individual who moves from their home country to seek a better life and economic opportunity.
What is an immigrant?
100
The policy in Canada that promoted French and English equally.
What is Official Bilingualism?
200
When two cultures come together and mix different parts
What is hybridization?
200
The trade system that sent slaves to North America, plantation goods (tobacco, sugar) to Europe, and weapons and alcohol was sent to Africa.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade or Columbian Exchange?
200
A company that operates in at least two different countries
What is a Transnational Corportation (TNC)?
200
The social construct that men and women have specific jobs made for them
What are gender roles?
200
This cartoon best shows this economic system.
What is mercantilism?
300
The consumption of Coca Cola and Apple products and listening to K-Pop music, and watching BBC's Sherlock in China.
What is universalization of pop-culture?
300
The commission that recognized and addressed the concerns over residential schools and providing compensation.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
300
When a company moves some, but not all, of its business operations to a new country.
What is outsourcing?
300
The standard of health, comfort, and happiness experienced by an individual or group.
What is quality of life?
300
To believe that your way of living is the best way.
What is ethnocentrism?
400
When people are able to preserve parts of their culture in new countries that they have immigrated recently.
What is accommodation?
400
The meaning of apartness in Afrikaans, the racial separation in South Africa
What is the Apartheid?
400
The most common tool to measure a country's wealth.
What is Gross Domestic Product?
400
The widespread protest against the WTO in Seattle in 1999.
What is the Battle in Seattle?
400
This is when a person stops purchasing a certain company's products.
What is a boycott?
500
The purpose of this is to preserve protect and promote distinct Canadian cultural identities on TV.
What is the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission)?
500
The piece of legislature that was intended to completely assimilate Indigenous Canadians
What is the Indian Act of 1876?
500
The Indigenous ways of knowing that focuses on the maitenence of land, using only what you need.
What is stewardship?
500
The interconnectedness of people and ease of global travel has increased the risk and frequency of these.
What are pandemics?
500
The colloquial name for the de-regulation of corporations, and providing tax breaks and reducing 'red tape.'
What is the Race to the Bottom?