Questions And Detailed Answers.
Aboriginals - Answer -Globalization has forced Aboriginals to change
-First Nations are often ignored in global decisions
-Assimilation becomes more prominent because of globalization
Accommodation - Answer A process that occurs when people from different cultures come
into contact and accept and create space for another. The customs, traditions, technologies,
beliefs, and languages of both cultures may be affected.
Acculturation - Answer The cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate, or
adapt to, each other's worldviews.
Adam Smith - Answer European philosopher that believed individual independence and
freedom - governments should have little control over their citizens daily life.
Anti-globalization - Answer A movement that criticizes the power of transnational
corporations and its related capitalism.
Assimilation - Answer A process that occurs when the culture of a minority group is absorbed
by another culture. The cultural identity of the minority group disappears as its member take on
the identity of the other culture.
Bias - Answer a prejudiced view (either for or against); a preference
Bretton Woods Conference - Answer -Two main ideas on how to run a country and its trade
were formed.
*More government intervention (social programs)
*Free trade (capitalism)
-IMF and WB were formed.
Capitalism - Answer An economic system that advocates free trade, competition, and choice
as a means of achieving prosperity.
, Collective - Answer A group to which a person belongs and identifies with.
Colonial Expansion - Answer Expanding an empire by taking over other places in the world.
-Shapes the world we live in today
*Canada was created due to Colonial Expansion
Colonialism - Answer A system in which a country finds and takes over land for
economic/military power.
-The begin the globalization can be linked to his.
Communication - Answer Sharing and interacting.
-Globalization is built upon interacting and sharing ideas with everyone
Consumer Activism - Answer Consumers influencing corporate policies by changing the way
they buy things.
-The global community can work together to change what a transnational can do
Containerization - Answer The transporting of goods in standard-sized shipping containers.
-Allows products to be effectively shipped all over the world
Contemporary Issues - Answer Issues that affect today's society.
Cooperation - Answer Working together
-The global world often cooperate in order to make bigger change
*Poverty
*Environmental concern
*Trade
Cultural Contact - Answer situation that occurs when two societies with different cultures
somehow come into contact with each other
-Many cultures clash together to either change or be assimilated due to Globalization