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Making special rules that allows religious or ethnic groups to maintain their cultures within mainstream society. EG Hala menues.
What is Accommodation?
The beliefs, customs, and arts of a particular society, group, or place.
What is Culture?
A society that embeds diversity as part of its foundation.
What is a Pluralistic society?
Bringing back aspects of a way of life that were lost.
What is cultural revitalization?
When a group is pushed to the edges of society with little power.
What is Marginalization?
Judging other cultures according to the standards of your culture.
What is Ethnocentrism?
The blending of two or more cultural items to make something new.
What is Hybridization?
Created in 1968, this organization regulates Canadian TV and radio to promote Canadian content.
What is the CRTC?
The process by which people or countries become more and more similar to the United States due to media and corporate influence.
What is Americanization?
The process that makes the world’s citizens increasingly interdependent economically, socially, politically, environmentally, and technologically.
What is Globalization?
Occurs when one company controls all the outlets of various television and radio
What is media consoliation?
The process where cultural differences are eroded and replaced with a single popular global culture.
What is Universalization of Pop Culture?
What is Homogenization?
Canadian media channel dedicated to protecting and promoting Canadian culture.
What is the CBC?
The policy that recognizes both French and English as Canada’s official languages, guaranteeing government services in both.
What is Official Bilingualism?
A language spoken by a smaller group within a larger population, often requiring protection to survive.
What is a Minority Language?
Occurs when various platforms (television, radio, books, movies, video games) all share the same media product.
What is media convergence?
The principle of separating government and institutions from religious influence.
What is Secularism?
The process of giving up SOME aspects of your culture to fit in with a greater culture. EG learning traffic laws. Similar to intergration.
What is Acculturation?
The absorption of a minority group by a dominant group, sometimes by force. Eventually leads to a loss of identity.
What is Assimilation?
The languages given legal status in a country, such as English and French in Canada.
What are Official Languages?
The Act that created Canada.
What is the BNA Act (1867)?
The single uniform global culture that could result from globalization.
What is Monoculture?
The identity that revolves around beliefs, values, history, and language of a group of people.
What is Collective Identity?
A category of decisions that deals with POWER.
What is political?
Media that meets specific requirements to promote and protect Canadian artists, stories, and perspectives.
What is Canadian Content (CanCon)?
The movement of people from one region or country to another, often in search of work or opportunity. It is the leading cause of Canada's multicultural identity.
What is Migration?
A category of issues that deal with MONEY and decisions about MONEY.
What is economic?
A corporation that operates in two or more countries.
What is a multinational/transnational corporation?
The traits and characteristics that make up a person’s unique sense of self.
What is Individual Identity?