GO1: Globalization and Identity
The purpose of 1968's Canada's Broadcasting Act was to promote this above all else.
What is Canadian Content (CanCon)?
This form of ethnocentrism uses European ethnic, national, religious and linguistic criteria to judge others and their cultures.
What is Eurocentrism?
This is the international trading block consisting of Canada, Mexico and the United States of America.
What is USMCA (NAFTA)?
There are four basic human needs to survive are food, shelter, health and this.
What is Water?
This is the sociological concept of a unifying and shared cultural experience among the global or national masses.
What is Monoculture?
This is the emergence of a new unique culture from the mixing or blending of different cultures.
What is Hybridization?
This period in history saw a clear segregation between two cultures and the blatant prejudice of white South Africans towards black South Africans.
What is The Apatheid?
More than 100 of the world's 500 top transnational corporations have their primary headquarters located in this country.
What is the United States of America?
This is arguably the greatest threat to society's survival.
What is Climate Change?
This is the process of transferring the ownership and control of government-owned businesses, services, or assets to private individuals or corporations.
What is Privatization?
This is the treatment of a person, group or concept as insignificant or peripheral.
What is Marginalization?
During the Berlin Conference, seven European nation states contested over the territories that they had laid claim to, including England, France, Portugal, Spain, Germany, Italy and this country.
What is Belgium?
This international organization was formed soon after the conclusion of WWII as a way to promote collective security around the world and aid in supporting member groups and their economies.
What is the United Nations?
Living an uncomfortable life so future generations won't have to suffer would be a perspective of someone trying to promote this ideology.
What is Sustainable Development?
This is the noticeable differences or inequality between two or more groups, individuals, or things.
What is Disparity?
This is the gap that seperate those that do and do not have access to up-to-date technology.
What is the Digital Divide?
This practice was what allowed European governments to control international trade in order to increase their own wealth.
What is Mercantilism?
Canada Post, Via Rail and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation are all examples of these.
What are Crown Corporations?
This measurement of quality of life is calculated based on a country's life expectancy, literacy and Gross Domestic Product.
What is the Human Development Index?
This is the process of transforming the economy of a nation or region from a focus on agriculture to a reliance on manufacturing.
What is Industrialization?
This is the concetration of our news sources into the hands of fewer and fewer corporations.
What is Media Consolidation?
This was the process of an individual losing their status which removed them from band lists and extinguished their legal rights of being Indigenous.
What is Enfranchisement?
In 1995, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) transitioned into this modern-day international organization.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
The United Nations established this document as a way to outline fundamental rights for people under the age of 18 and their care.
What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
This is a business entity or corporation that is fully owned or partially controlled by another company, termed as the parent, or holding, company.
What is a Subsidiary?