Chapter 1 and 2 quiz

Question 1

What are the ways people express their individual and collective identity?

Answer 1

Traditions
Language
Clothing
Body Adornment

Question 2

How do some Iranian people express their individual identity?

Answer 2

• Through a traditional festival called Chahar Shanbeh.
• An ancient festival that celebrates the coming of a new year
• Iranians build — and jump over — a bonfire to symbolize purification.

Question 3

How do Finnish people express their individual identity?

Answer 3

• By the tradition of a sauna — a kind of sweat bath.

- They believe that a sauna not only cleans and heals the body, but also purifies the mind.

Question 4

How might clothing express individual identity?

Answer 4

The clothing you wear may represent what you believe in, or your heritage or interests

Question 5

How can tattoos and piercings express individual identity?

Answer 5

They are used to make statements and represent belonging to a certain membership or group

Question 6

What is the most important collective in your life when you are young?

Answer 6

Your family

Question 7

How do francophones affirm their identity?

Answer 7

Is by founding associations and institutions to protect and affirm their rights and to affirm their collective identity.

Question 8

What is an association that strives to affirm Albertan francophone identity?

Answer 8

l’Association canadienne-française de l’Alberta

Question 9

What is slang?

Answer 9

A collection of terms used by the members of a social collective, such as teenagers.

Question 10

What is Jargon?

Answer 10

Is a collection of terms, but it is often used by members of professional collectives,

Question 11

Why do people use slang and jargon?

Answer 11

• to avoid long descriptions and explanations
• to convey precise meaning to other members of the collective
• to affirm their identity as a member of a particular collective

Question 12

What does globalization mean?

Answer 12

A process by which the world’s citizens are becoming more connected and interdependent.

Question 13

How do peoples identity link with the DRC?

Answer 13

When people turn on their cell phones they are using a mineral called coltan which is derived from the DRC

Question 14

Why is Coltan mining so dangerous?

Answer 14

Because it is so valuable armed thieves try to steal it from miners

Question 15

How does Coltan mining affect the mountain gorilla?

Answer 15

Much of the DRC’s coltan is mined in the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, home of the mountain gorilla. To make mining easier, the land in the area was cleared. This reduced the gorillas’ food supply. It also destroyed the way of life of people who lived in the area.

Question 16

How did the Yom Kippur war affect the Lubicon Cree?

Answer 16

Because the USA supported a non-oil producing country in the war the prices went up. So the USA went to seek cheaper oil. Which was discovered on the Lubicon Cree land. But it was not officially their land because they had been overlooked in treaty 8 which granted them rights. As a result, wildlife began to disappear which made them lose their source of food.

Question 17

How did the Daishowa Paper Co. affect the Lubicon Cree?

Answer 17

Becuase the Cree land was considered crown land the Candian government had the control over it and allowed the Daishowa paper company to forest land which made the Cree nation lose their food source

Question 18

Why did the Lubicon Cree not have land rights?

Answer 18

Becuase they were overlooked in treaty 8, which gave them rights

Question 19

What does Glocal mean?

Answer 19

Things that happen at a global level, such as international trade, affect things that happen at a local level, such as what you buy in local stores — and vice versa.

Question 20

What are the forces of globalization?

Answer 20

Trade
Transportation
Communication technology
Media

Question 21

Why do people trade goods?

Answer 21

to obtain goods and services that are:
• not available in their own region
• better quality or less expensive
• different from goods produced at home

Question 22

What is trade?

Answer 22

The exchange of goods

Question 23

What are examples of Transnational Companies?

Answer 23

• Zellers
• Tim Hortons
• The bay

Question 24

What is a Transnational Corporation?

Answer 24

a company that is based in one country while developing and manufacturing its products, or delivering its goods and services, in more than one country.

Question 25

What important role do Transnational companies make in the economy?

Answer 25

In many countries, they provide training and jobs for people who might not otherwise have work.

Question 26

What do critics say about transnational companies?

Answer 26

The jobs are often low-level positions that require little skill and provide few opportunities to advance.

Question 27

What is a negative to transnational companies?

Answer 27

• profits earned by transnationals go to the country where the company has its headquarters.
• The profits do not benefit the people of the country where the goods are actually made or sold.

Question 28

How has transportation improved trade?

Answer 28

• It has made it more efficient using shipping containers and specialized ships
• It has also made it more reliable because it is easier to track a large container instead of small packages

Question 29

How does technology affect globalization?

Answer 29

• It connects companies online and businesses can now go online to seek out a supplier.
• The business can then remain online to view pictures of the product, request and compare prices, place an order, and receive notice of when to expect delivery.

Question 30

What is an example of media?

Answer 30

Newspaper

Question 31

What is media concentration?

Answer 31

A trend that concentrates ownership of newspapers and other media in the hands of a few large corporations.

Question 32

What is media convergence?

Answer 32

The use of electronic technology to integrate media such as newspapers, books, TV, and the Internet.

Question 33

What do critics of media concentration say?

Answer 33

• These trends encourage the news media to reduce the number of reporters and other staff they employ.
• They also believe that concentration and convergence reduce the diversity of voices in Canada and around the world.

Question 34

What are the dimensions of globalization?

Answer 34

• Economic
• Political
• Environmental
• Social

Question 35

Why are Bananas very cheap?

Answer 35

• Banana yields are often high because of heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The supply is
often greater than the demand customers order. This leads to reduced prices.

Question 36

How do Transnational companies reduce their costs?

Answer 36

• By controlling many of the ships, containers, and warehouses
• Transnationals can give themselves a deal and keep the profits in the company.
• Labour cheap, and few workers are protected by union agreements This keeps wages low.

Question 37

Why can’t Jamaican banana companies make much money?

Answer 37

Farms are smaller and are often run as family businesses.
These small farms cannot achieve the same economies of scale as huge banana plantations.
As a result, their costs are higher. To make money, they must sell their bananas at higher prices than the transnationals.

Question 38

What does the ecological dimension affect globalization?

Answer 38

It requires trades to not have a negative effect on the earth such a fertilization and pesticides

Question 39

How is the Banana trade affected by the social dimension of globalization?

Answer 39

The people are forced to work for very low wages and sometimes are forced to work while pesticides were dropped overhead onto them

Question 40

What is Michif, the language spoken by Metis a representation about?

Answer 40

Accommodation and Acculturation

Question 41

What is acculturation?

Answer 41

The cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate, or adapt to, each other’s worldview

Question 42

What is accommodation?

Answer 42

Accepting and creating space for one another.

Question 43

What is assimilation?

Answer 43

When the culture of a minority group is absorbed by another culture.

Question 44

What is cultural revitalization?

Answer 44

The process of affirming and promoting individual and collective cultural identity.