Final Exam Flashcards
what are the factors (key influences) that shape who you are?
family relationships, talents, interests, religious or spiritual beliefs, traditions, where you live, heritage, as well as the food you eat, the clothes you wear, and the music you listen to.
how do traditions, language and clothing help to express individual identity?
- families, friends, and religious communities all have different traditions.
- there are almost 7000 languages in the world today. Language makes up a large part of your identity.
- Your clothing represents aspects of your identity and
often reflects your beliefs or heritage.
what effect do collectives or groups have on identity?
a collective is a group of people that have similar interests, heritage, or ideas. Just as you express individual identity, you express a collective identity as well. This is done through: Language, Slang& Jargon, and Collective Identity & context
why is language important to collective identities?
People who speak different languages view the world differently.
what is slang and jargon? What is its purpose?
Slang is terms used by members of a collective (think teens) while jargon is more often used by members of a profession.
Slang examples: yolo, rizz, slay, snatched, bet
Jargon examples: medical jargon, “bang for your buck”, “due diligence”, “low hanging fruit”, “10-4”, “doing the heavy lifting” “see the picture” “put a pin in it”
how can our identities be connected with people in other countries (i.e. Coltan)
People around the world are connected mainly through trade, the media, and transportation.
For example, a key cellphone,
laptop, and iPod component called coltan is mined out of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
What are the opportunities and challenges to increased global connections?
what could be the good things? what could be the bad things?
What is the impact that globalization has on identity?
How the spread of globalization has affected your identity and a group identity (spread of clothes, social media…)
transnational corporation
a corporation that manufactures in one company and sells in another
media concentration
Media concentration: when a few large corporations own most of the newspapers and
other media.
media convergence
the use of electronic technology to integrate media such as
newspapers, books, TV and the Internet.
homogenization
erases the differences between cultures and as a result, they
become more and more similar, or uniform.
acculturation
when cultural changes occur as a result of two cultures coming into contact with each other. The two cultures adapt to each other’s worldview.
accommodation
means accepting and creating space for each other, which affects the language, cultures and traditions of both cultures. Accommodation essentially means compromising or making adjustments to allow for differences.
assimilation
when the minority group is absorbed by another culture. The cultural identity of the minority group disappears as its members take on the culture of the majority group.
cultural revitalization
the process of reclaiming and re-evaluating cultural practices, traditions, and values that have been lost or marginalized due to historical or contemporary factors
Ex: the Métis people have struggled to maintain their cultural identity, and cultural revitalization is taking place to
promote their individual and collective identities.
What are the Four forces of globalization
trade, transportation, communication technology and media
- Political, economic, social, environmental aspects of globalization
- environment - climate change
- political - how governments make decisions
- economic - TNC’s, outsourcing, trade
- social - society and the workers
What was the fur trade? 
Early North American industry 
What was the Indian act? 
Canadian legislation, assimilation, 1876 
