Unit 1- Globalization And You

Question 1

Citizen

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Identity

Answer 2

Distinct characteristics and personality shaped by many factors

Question 3

Global village

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Media

Answer 4

Any form in which communication occurs

Question 5

Globalization

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Culture

Answer 6

The way groups of people live

Question 7

Multiple perspectives

Answer 7

The idea that many different viewpoints exist on every issue

Question 8

Values

Answer 8

General beliefs about what is right, moral, and desirable

Question 9

Diversity

Answer 9

The quality of being different

Question 10

Pluralism

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Ideology

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Francophone

Answer 12

A person who speaks French as his or her first language

Question 13

Métis

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Perspective

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Assimilation

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Tolerance

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Religion

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Customs

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Aboriginal people(s)

Answer 19

The original inhabitants of a country or territory

Question 20

Accommodation

Answer 20

One culture modifying itself to fit in with the dominant culture

Question 21

Acculturation

Answer 21

Change in cultures resulting from exposure to each other

Question 22

Affirmation

Answer 22

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

Question 23

The arts

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Apartheid

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Business process outsourcing

Answer 25

Managing the business services of a company by relocating them to another country

Question 26

Cultural revitalization

Answer 26

A rebirth or newfound interest and growth in a culture

Question 27

Dominant

Answer 27

Controlling or prevailing over all others

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First Nations

Answer 28

The first peoples to live in Canada, formerly known as Canadian “Indian” individuals and communities

Question 29

Homogenization

Answer 29

The process by which all cultures gradually lose their distinctive features and one blended culture results; the resulting culture sometimes called a “monoculture”

Question 30

Hybridization

Answer 30

The proceeds of cultures changing to produce a new cults due to influences of other cultures

Question 31

Idiolect

Answer 31

The speech habits peculiar to a particular person

Question 32

Imperialism

Answer 32

Domination by one or more countries over others to gain power and wealth

Question 33

Indigenous

Answer 33

Inhabiting a land prior to the arrival of people from another nation

Question 34

Integration

Answer 34

The joining of various ethnic groups within a society into a common society with generally accepted values

Question 35

Inuit

Answer 35

The Aboriginal inhabitants of Canada’s Far North, with distinctive culture and language

Question 36

Marginalization

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Mother tongue

Answer 37

The first language a person learned at home in childhood and still understands

Question 38

Oral traditions

Answer 38

The history and traditions of a society from people’s memories passed to succeeding generations through the spoken word

Question 39

Spirituality

Answer 39

A concern for the things of the spirit or the world beyond that which can be seen and heard

Question 40

Tradition

Answer 40

An inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior