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Unit 1: To what extent does globalization shape identity? Flashcards

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Point of View/Perspective

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  • A particular attitude or way or regarding something
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Globalization

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  • The process that makes people more interconnected economically, politically, socially, environmentally, and technologically
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Globalism

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  • Ideology that drives globalization
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(E) Import

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  • Goods and services that are brought into a country from an external source
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(E) Export

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  • Sending goods or services to another country for sale
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(E) Transnational/Multinational Corporations

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  • Corporations that operate in two or more countries
    Ex. Mcdonalds
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(E) Outsourcing

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  • One company hiring another company to fulfill certain tasks of production
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(E) North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

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  • Trade agreement between Canada, U.S, and Mexico
  • Treaty focuses on removing trade barriers and tariffs between these nations
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(E) Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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  • Trade agreement between twelve countries that border the Pacific border
  • Treaty focuses on removing tariffs and fostering trade
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Localism

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  • Idea that people should have control over what happens in their local area
  • Local business should be supported
  • Differences between areas should be respected
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(P) Sanctions

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  • Where one country does not trade or deal with another country
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(P) World Trade Organization

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  • Intergovernmental organization
  • Regulates trade between nations
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(P) G7

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  • Formed by 7 industrialized nations
  • Meet up annually to foster consensus on global issues like climate change
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(P) United Nations

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  • Intergovernmental organization
  • Aims to maintain peace and security between nations
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(P) La Francophonie

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  • Formed by 88 member states and governments that share French as a common language
  • Aims to promote French language, peace, etc.
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(P) Democracy

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  • System of government
  • Power to the people and elected officials
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(S) Individual Identity

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  • Traits and characteristics that make an individual themselves/different from others
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(S) Collective Identity

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  • Combination of values, beliefs, language, etc of a people
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(S) Minority Group

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  • A group who’s numbers are smaller compared with those of the dominant culture
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(S) Global Village

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  • Idea that the entire world and all inhabitants are becoming one large community interconnected by technology
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(S) Migration

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  • Ability or trend of one population moving from one place to another
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(S) Accommodation

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  • Inclusive approach that allows religious or ethnic groups to maintain their culture in mainstream society
    Ex. providing translators for people who speak different languages
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(S) Secularism

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  • Separation between state and religious institutions
    Ex. no religion in schools
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Integration

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  • The incorporation of diverse minority groups into mainstream society and culture using accommodation
  • Good
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Interdependance

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  • Process of people becoming more interdependent on each other
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Universalization of Pop Culture

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  • Result of large audiences watching the same type of media from transnational organizations
  • Leads to large groups of people experiencing the same culture
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Media Transnational

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  • A mass media corporation that produces books, films, music etc. in two or more countries
    Ex. Disney
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Media Consolidation

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  • The merging of media transnationals that result in a concentration of ownership
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What are the advantages of media transnationals?

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  1. They have the resources to create new media
  2. Many people enjoy the material created by these transnationals
  3. They can use their control of the media to show diverse cultures
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What are the disadvantages of media transnationals?

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  1. They have to much influence over the media
  2. Smaller corporations cannot compete
  3. They do not use their control of the media to show diverse cultures
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Hybridization

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  • The blending of media and communication technologies that result in hybrid/blended cultures and identities
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Official Languages Act

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  • Legislation in which Canada recognizes itself as a bilingual country with two official languages
  • Protects French language rights
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Bill 101

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  • Enacted by Quebec government
  • Aimed to promote French within Quebec and ensure that Quebec remains a French society
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How did Bill 101 restrict English language rights in Quebec?

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  1. Restricted the use of English on public signs
  2. Non-Anglophone students were required to study in French

Bill 101 has been amended more than six times since its creation

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Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC)

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  • Aims to regulate and promote Canadian content in mainstream media
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CANCON

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  • CRTC requirements that radio and television broadcasters must air a certain percentage of content that was at least partly written, produced, etc. by a person from Canada
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Societe Radio Canada (SRC)

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  • Canada’s national Francophone public broadcaster if television and radio broadcasting
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

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  • Canada’s national Anglophone public broadcaster of television and radio broadcasting
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Monoculture

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  • The spread of one culture around the world
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Marginalization

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  • The pushing of a group to the “margins” of society economically, pollically, and socially
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Homogenization

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  • A trend towards uniformity with one popular culture as a result of globalization
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Cultural Revitalisation

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  • A process where unique cultures regain a sense of identity by promoting language and culture
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Assimilation

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  • The absorption of a unique culture by a dominant society

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