Unit 1- Globalization And You Flashcards

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Citizen

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A native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a nation or government

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Identity

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Distinct characteristics and personality shaped by many factors

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Global village

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How electronic mass media collapse space and time barriers and enable people from all over the world to interact

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Media

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Any form in which communication occurs

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Globalization

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The process by which people around the world are becoming increasingly interconnected through trade, the media ,and migration

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Culture

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The way groups of people live

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Multiple perspectives

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The idea that many different viewpoints exist on every issue

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Values

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General beliefs about what is right, moral, and desirable

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Diversity

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The quality of being different

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Pluralism

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The condition that individual and group differences are present in a society and are celebrated as enriching the social fabric

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Ideology

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The study of the origin and nature of people; doctrine, philosophy, or body of beliefs or principles belonging to an individual or group

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Francophone

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A person who speaks French as his or her first language

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Métis

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The descendants of Aboriginal women and European men after the arrival of the French and English in Canada

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Perspective

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A mental view or outlook of a particular group as shaped by its values system, background, and experiences

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Assimilation

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The process by which an ethnic group loses its distinct language and culture and becomes absorbed into the dominant group

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Tolerance

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Acceptance or sympathy for beliefs or practices different from one’s own

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Religion

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A system of beliefs that involves the existence or nonexistence of at least one of a human soul, spirt, a deity, a higher being, or self after the death of one’s body

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Customs

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A long established practice or habit of a community; an unwritten and unstated rule of behavior

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Aboriginal people(s)

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The original inhabitants of a country or territory

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Accommodation

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One culture modifying itself to fit in with the dominant culture

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Acculturation

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Change in cultures resulting from exposure to each other

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Affirmation

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A personal declaration that one’s own culture or identity has value and validity

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The arts

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(Asl fine arts) the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic

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Apartheid

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A policy of racial segregation maintained in South Africa from 1948 to 1991

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Business process outsourcing
Managing the business services of a company by relocating them to another country
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Cultural revitalization
A rebirth or newfound interest and growth in a culture
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Dominant
Controlling or prevailing over all others
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First Nations
The first peoples to live in Canada, formerly known as Canadian “Indian” individuals and communities
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Homogenization
The process by which all cultures gradually lose their distinctive features and one blended culture results; the resulting culture sometimes called a “monoculture”
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Hybridization
The proceeds of cultures changing to produce a new cults due to influences of other cultures
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Idiolect
The speech habits peculiar to a particular person
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Imperialism
Domination by one or more countries over others to gain power and wealth
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Indigenous
Inhabiting a land prior to the arrival of people from another nation
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Integration
The joining of various ethnic groups within a society into a common society with generally accepted values
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Inuit
The Aboriginal inhabitants of Canada’s Far North, with distinctive culture and language
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Marginalization
The result of a less-dominant group taking on some of the habits and customs of the dominant society thereby becoming incompletely assimilated but no longer belonging to any cultural group
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Mother tongue
The first language a person learned at home in childhood and still understands
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Oral traditions
The history and traditions of a society from people’s memories passed to succeeding generations through the spoken word
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Spirituality
A concern for the things of the spirit or the world beyond that which can be seen and heard
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Tradition
An inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior