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Transnational Corporation |
Textbook: A company that is based in one country while developing and manufacturing it's products or delivering its goods and services in more than one county |
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Media Concentration |
Textbook: The gathering of ownership of newspapers and other media in the hands of a few large corporations |
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Media Convergence |
Textbook: The use of electronic technology to integrate media such as newspapers, books, TV and the Internet |
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Economics of Scale |
Textbook: Savings that are achieved by producing, using and buying things in large quantities |
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Biodiversity |
Textbook: Variety in plant and animal species |
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Homogenization |
Textbook: The erasing of differences. When this term is applied to people, it often refers to the erasing of cultural differences so that people become more and more similar |
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Acculturation |
Textbook: The cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate or adapt to each other's worldviews |
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Accommodation |
Textbook: A process that occurs when people from different cultures come into contact and accept and create space for one another. The customs, traditions, technologies, beliefs and languages of both cultures may be affected |
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Assimilation |
Textbook: 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 members take on the identity of the other culture |
Residential schools were often used to assimilate first nations children |
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Cultural Revitalization |
Textbook: The process of affirming and promoting people's individual and collective cultural identity |
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