Unit 1
When one cultural group defining characteristics are absorbed into a more dominating culture.
What is Assimilation
The process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.
What is Globalization
Term refers to the widespread international movement of goods, capital, services, technology and information.
What is Economic Globalization
The standard of Living measures our level of comfort based on material things we can buy such as goods, services, and luxuries.
What is Quality of Life
The spread of one popular culture around the world.
What is Universalization of Popular Culture
Accepting and creating a space for people with different cultural views.
What is Accommodation
The active conquest and direct control by a great power over a lesser power.
What is Imperialism
A company that does business in a select few countries around the world and operates facilities such as warehouses or distribution centres in at least one foreign country.
What is a Multinational Corporation
This provides equal protection under the law, freedom from torture, freedom of thought and expression.
What are Civil Rights
The gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology (ICT), and those that don't or have restricted access. This technology can include the telephone, television, personal computers
and internet connectivity.
What is the Digital divide
Cultural changes occur when two different cultures meet.
What is Acculturation
The economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
What is Mercantilism
The economic and political model which removed the capitalist class (bourgeoisies).
What is Communism
The right to an adequate standard of living, the right to work, justice in pay and working conditions, freedom from slavery, right to an education, and access to healthcare.
What are Social and Economic Rights
A framework to identify demographic, geographic, and associative features underlying culture.
What is a Cultural Mosaic
The reduction of cultural diversity on a global scale.
What is Homogenization
The belief that your culture is inherently superior to others.
What is Ethnocentrism
The process of transforming the economy of a nation or region from a focus on agriculture to a reliance on manufacturing.
What is Industrialization
The active participation in the public life of a community in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a focus on the common good.
What is Civic Responsibility
This refers to some measure of the value of economic transactions between two countries, or between a country and the rest of the world, perhaps scaled to total national output or to some measure of total financial assets.
What is Economic Interdependence
The organized movement to construct a more satisfying culture.
What is Cultural revitalization
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
What is Capitalism
An informal group of eight major industrialized countries, that collectively have nearly 50 percent of the vote in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, United States).
What is the Group of 8 (G8)
A cultural group that maintains links between their homeland and adopted country.
What is a Transitional Community
This is one of the world's largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries.
What is The World Bank Group