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13 Cards in this Set
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Your family, your heritage, your history, your language(s), your traditions, and many other factors that affect identity |
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Role Model |
Someone to whom others look as an example to emulate |
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Transnational Corporation |
A company that is based in one country while developing and manufacturing its products, or delivering its goods and services, in more than one country |
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Collective |
A group to which a person belongs and identifies with |
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Media Concentration |
The gathering of ownership of newspapers and other media in the hands of a few large corporations |
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Media Convergence |
The use of electronic technology to integrate media such as newspapers, books, TV, and the internet |
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Economies of scale |
Savings that are achieved by producing, using, and buying things in large quantities |
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Biodiversity |
Variety in plant and animal species |
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Homogenization |
The erasing of differences. When this term is applied to people, it often refers to the erasing of cultural differences so that people's become more and more similar |
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Acculturation |
The cultural changes that occur when two cultures accommodate, or adapt to, each other's world views |
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Accommodation |
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 |
A process that occurs when the culture of a minority group is absorbed by another culture. The cultural identity of the minority group disapppears as its members take on the identitiy of the other culture |
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Cultural Revitalization |
The process of affirming and promoting people's individual and collective cultural identity |
