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Unit 1: Globalization and Identity Flashcards

1
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Define globalization.

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An accelerated process, in which different societies become more interconnected and dependant on each other. Aided by advances in technology, this act is included by trade and economies.

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What is the impact of globalization?

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  • loss to culture
  • loss of language
  • clash of societies
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What is identity?

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Sense of personal continuity over a course of time.

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What is personal identity?

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Yourself as a unique individual.

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What is a collective?

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Identity that you share with other people as a member of a larger group.

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What are the two theories, regarding identity?

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Expands identity and promotes understanding and cooperation.

Or

Decreasing diversity; disappearance of individual/ collective identities.

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What happened in 1979/1980 in Canada?

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Prime Minister shuts down privatization.

Opens up competition, brings price down.

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What does IMF stand for?

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International Monetary Fund

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What does the IMF do?

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Loans to countries in need.

Emergency loans.

Manages/collects data on banks and economies and currencies worldwide.

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What is a structural adjustment loan?

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A loan from the IMF.

Puts conditions on the money.

Has to make changes to cut costs in their country, and open to free market economies.

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Three reasons for the increase in modern globalization.

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  1. Multi- national corporations- global reach and increasing power.
  2. Travel and shipping - cheap and safe.
  3. Gov’t decreased tariff and reg. International trade
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What role has government played in globalization?

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Subsidizing.

Regulates / removes regulations (like tariffs)

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13
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Why is manufacturing outsourced?

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Less regulations.

Cheaper labour in the developing world.

Cheap shipping.

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What is the impact of government regulation?

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Diminishes prosperity by limiting growth.

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What is free trade?

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Exchange of goods/service with elimination of tariffs.

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What does free trade call for?

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Removal of tariffs and regulations, also for privatizing government owned property.

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Define trade.

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Movement of goods/services between countries.

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Define transport.

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Movement of goods between countries.

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19
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Define communication.

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Movement of info between people.

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Define global media.

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The organized broadcast of info/culture around the globe.

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21
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What is a transnational corporation?

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

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What is media concentration?

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

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What is media convergence?

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

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Why has there been a shift in manufacturing since the Industrial Revolution?

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Formerly non-industrialized parts of the world have begun manufacturing not only for domestic market but for an international market as well. Previously, the domestic market accounted for a larger percentage of sales/purchases.

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What has been the impact of globalization on people?

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600 million emerge from poverty, created jobs were there weren’t.

Increased migration:

  • easier to communicate
  • more economic opportunities

Cultural blending.

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26
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Define remittance.

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Money sent home from working abroad, driving factor in the first world.

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27
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What are some positives of globalization?

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  • longer life span
  • more opportunities
  • access to diverse culture
  • diminished costs
  • increased WW economic output
  • first and second world no longer monopolize manufacturing
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28
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What are some negatives of globalization?

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  • fewer languages
  • cultural blending
  • Americanization
  • not good for families
  • bad for environment
  • overpopulation
29
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Define economics.

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The price of goods, jobs created and lost, products available, finances behind it (negative in one country positive and another)

30
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Define political.

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The relationship between nations.

31
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Define economies of sale.

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The savings that come from producing, using, and buying things in bulk.

Costco affect.

32
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Define biodiversity.

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Variety of plants/animals found in one area.

33
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What are the four dimensions of globalization?

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Economic, political, environmental, social.

34
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What are the five challenges to identity?

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Homogenization, acculturation, accommodation, assimilation, and cultural revitalization.

35
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Define homogenization.

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Erases differences, cultures become more similar.

36
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Define acculturation.

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Cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate, or adapt to, each other’s world views.

37
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Define accommodation.

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The process of accepting/creating space for one another.

38
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Define assimilation.

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The culture of minority group is absorbed into another.

39
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Define cultural revitalization.

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

40
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What is the policy of multiculturalism?

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Official government policy founded on the idea that Canadian society is pluralistic; made of many distinct cultural groups, free to affirm and promote their own cultural identity.

41
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What is coltan? Where does it come from? Why is it important?

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Metal: controls flow of electricity in electronics.

Mined in the Republic of Congo.

Necessary in the manufacturing of electronics.

42
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What is the impact of coltan and global demand on indigenous peoples and the environment?

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Mines in the Kabuzi-Brega National Park - home to the mountain gorilla.

Land is being cleared for mining.
Destroys habitat.
Aboriginals way of life is destroyed.
Also killing gorillas to sell meat to the miners.

43
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What is Satya Das’ view on globalization and identity?

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Individuals are from everywhere and nowhere – blending of ethnicities and race. No one good answer.
Borderless world.

44
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What is Kofi Annan’s view on globalization and identity?

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Globalization kills culture. Uniform.

Increases prosperity, also widens gaps.

45
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What is Long Litt Woon’s view on globalization and identity?

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You can have only one identity and if you gain another you only have the latest. All or nothing.

46
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How does trade contribute to the spread of globalization?

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People need/want goods/services they cannot find in their own communities, so they look elsewhere for the trade.

Traditionally - good/services not available in their own region, better quality or less expensive, or different from goods produced it home.

47
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How have advances in technology helps make trade a force of globalization?

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Transportation is easier safer and cheaper.

Social media/Internet makes it easier to advertise and sell product to a wider market.

Wider selection of products for consumers.

More competition for producers.

Manufactures can sell directly to customer instead of to a middleman.

48
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How does transportation contribute to the spread of globalization?

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Farther and faster.
40% of trade goods in shipping containers, uniform size, half the crew, twice the product.

Passenger jets.

49
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How have advances in technology helped make transportation of force of globalization?

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Uniform shipping containers, cranes, trains, boats, and planes.

Revolutionized shipping industry – harder to steal from sealed containers.

50
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How has communication technology contributed to the spread of globalization?

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Gives people access to information – travel, disease, safety, etc. New technology Internet makes it easier and faster to have a global economy. Online shipping, advertising, targeting customers.

51
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How have advances in communication technology helped make this a force for globalization?

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Faster for men and you facture’s/producers to find a buyer, and strike deals to make product/materials less expensive.

Became a market in themselves, the sale of electronics and Internet connection has increased drastically since the introduction of personal computers in 1970.

52
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How has media contributed to the spread of globalization?

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Access to information – language - same text available to everyone.

Language barriers aren’t such an issue

53
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How have advances in technology help to make media force of globalization?

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Less expensive manufacturing processing.

Safety shipping.

Machines to go over some workers jobs, so there’s less jobs and work competition for those jobs.

54
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How do individuals express who they are?

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Traditions, language, clothing, and body adornments.

55
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What are cultural content laws?

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Cultural content laws are government laws protecting a group’s culture from being assimilated within another culture, or from otherwise disappearing. These laws are usually protecting the authors, artists, or performers of a minority.

56
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What is the digital divide?

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Their old world countries can’t afford Internet/electronics.

The digital divide creates a gap between people with Internet and those who don’t, this makes it difficult to trade between those two groups, so those without Internet are left out of the conversation.

57
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What is techno-isolation?

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Personal electronic devices.

Everyone has their own social network online, but it restricts the real social contact we have when we are plugged in. Also because we have different communities you belong to, conversation is increasingly difficult because few people read the same news.

58
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Why is social media a positive effect of communication technology?

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Allows for a broader reach of information and contact without which, a global community would be very difficult to achieve.

59
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Why is my minority TV/media access a positive effect of communication technology?

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Minority groups have the chance to broadcast their own point of view on issues, instead of it being secondhand. Also they can transmit in native languages, that’s exposing the younger generation to their culture, even if they aren’t in direct contact.

60
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Why is diverse city and global media concentration a positive effects of communication technology?

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Everyone has access to the same info, gives nations different views, and people can learn about other cultures.

61
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Why is diversity and global media concentration a negative effect of communication technology?

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Minority cultures don’t have the same coverage so they become assimilated with the dominant – broadcasting – culture.

62
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Why is pop culture and global media positive effect of communication technology?

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Gives people a sense of belonging. Influences values and beliefs that help to find your identity. Global media helps creators to market worldwide and have a large market.

63
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Who are the Métis?

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An aboriginal group in Canada, aboriginal/European.

64
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What are the three objectives of the Métis people?

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  • Creates awareness of history; values, cultures, language.
  • Develop prosperity and self sufficiency.
  • Defendant aboriginal rights (land, resources, hunting, etc.)
65
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What are some of the ways the Métis people are trying to achieve their objectives?

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  • Métis drilling rig training.
  • Working at a pulp mill in Peace River.
  • Integrated Trades Program at Fairview college.
66
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What is the Métis traditional language?

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Michif. Cree+English+French

67
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How are the Métis trying to maintain their language?

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Teach young children in schools.

68
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How are the Métis trying to maintain their traditional art forms? What challenges do they face?

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Native cultural arts programs. Losing elders, even if they didn’t, they might not have the knowledge – residential schools.

69
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How was the Métis trying to share their culture?

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Getting the community involved. Small camp in Lac la Biche. Make Métis site with a museum, workshop, amphitheater, etc.

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