Unit 1: Identity
Globalization is best defined as...
What is the interconnectedness of the globe?
True or False: Christopher Columbus discovered America!
What is false?
True or False: Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman are NOT supporters of capitalism.
What is FALSE?
Provide one positive and one negative factor associated with Labour Unions.
What is
Positive: a fair wage, working conditions, protection, and high labour standards, others?
Negative: decreased competition [hard to dismiss a union worker], lack of salary increase, does not consider inflation, less profit for the business, others?
List 2 mercantilist organizations
What is The British East India Company and the Hudson Bay Company?
Identify the 4 dimensions of Globalization
What is economic, social, political, and environmental?
For an extra 200 points what would be considered the 5th dimension of globalization?
What term highlights European Imperialism's desire to create colonies in Africa?
What is The Scramble for Africa?
For an extra 200 points list 3 British colonies in Africa.
Who is known as the founder of capitalism?
Who is Adam Smith?
For an extra 200 points, what was the name of the book he wrote that influenced many countries to abandon mercantilism and adopt capitalism?
What is the number ONE way to increase the quality of life for women globally?
What is establishing effective education?
Extra 200 points if you can provide a second way to increase the quality of life of women globally.
Trade liberalization is to economic globalization as _____ _____ is to social globalization.
What is the fair trade?
This would be an example of hybridization.
What is...
Sesame Street signs in different languages.
McDonald's catering to different ethnic cuisines.
Others?
This was the name given to the exchange of goods from Africa, Europe and Asia with goods from North and South America.
What was the Columbia Trade Exchange?
2 examples of agreements or organizations that support trade liberalization.
What is...
NAFTA [CUSMA/USMCA
European Union
World Bank / IMF
WTO
others?
How can consumers promote the ethical production of goods?
What is...
Boycotting
Dollar Spending
Purchasing fair trade
This dimension of globalization relates to a citizen being marginalized for protesting an unjust legislation in their country.
What is the political dimension?
Identify the term that coincides with the following definition: "Pop culture becoming homogenized".
What is the universalization of pop culture, more specifically the Americanization of pop culture?
Give 2-3 specific historical examples of legacies associated with imperialism.
What is...
Loss of language/culture from Residential Schools
Apartheid in South Africa causing discrimination
Genocide in Rwanda due to the instability of the government
Others?
The reason life expectancy would be the most obvious means to measure the standard of living in a country.
What is that a person living a long life would have sufficient or excess wealth, nutrition, healthcare, etc. than a person living in a country with insufficient wealth, nutrition, healthcare etc.?
The reasoning why the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights was created in 1948?
What are to limit the crimes associated with some country's belief that they can take away the human rights of a people/persons [based on the actions of the Nazis upon the Jewish people-EG. The Holocaust.
The European Union is an example of this type of organizational structure.
What is an example of a supranational organization?
The organization that allows Canada to control/censor their broadcasting and telecommunications.
What is the CRTC [Canadian Radio/Television Telecommunications Commission?
The main reason why communication technologies are advancing the dimensions of globalization.
What is, it is now easier to access information from anywhere in the world?
This concept is said to occur when a person supports/advocates for the reduction in child exploitation, increased gender equality, promotes the elimination of poverty and does not participate in actions that could harm others.
What is responsible/global citizenship?
Fill in the blank to make the following statement correct: Indigenous cultures and European countries initially held a __________ relationship of mutual need; however, as Eurocentric attitudes grew the relationship turned to one of _____________ for the Indigenous cultures.
What is symbiotic and exploitation/oppression/cruelty/brutal, others
A Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate.
*DAILY DOUBLE*
Who is Malala Yousafzai?