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What is the unit question for the first unit? |
To what extent should globalization change identity? |
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What is accommodation? |
An inclusive approach that allows religious or ethnic groups to maintain their distinct cultures within mainstream society. |
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What is a change as a result of contact with other cultural groups called? |
Acculturation. |
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What is the AMMSA? |
The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta; A Canadian based aboriginal communications society that uses internet, radio, and print media to promote Aboriginal cultures. |
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What is a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race called? |
Apartheid. |
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What is APTN? |
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network; An Aboriginal Canadian television network that produces programming by and for Aboriginal peoples. |
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What is the absorption of a minority group by a majority group called? |
Assimilation. |
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What is CanCon? |
Canadian content; the amount of Canadian participation in Canada's broadcasting industry in such areas as direction, writing, performance, cinematography, music composition, and so on. |
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What is the agency that judges Canadian Content in Canada's broadcasting industry called? |
CAVCO; Canadian Audio Visual Certification Office. (Aka the CRTC). |
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What is CBC? |
Canadian Broadcasting Coporation; Canada's national Anglophone public broadcaster of television and radio programming. |
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What is the combination of beliefs, values, history, and language of a people called? |
A collective identity. |
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What is a co-operative? |
Businesses owned jointly by their members, who share the profits equally. |
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What is a word you would use to describe a city that reflects many diverse cultures, or that is worldly and sophisticated? |
Cosmopolitan. |
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What is cultural diversity? |
The existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society. |
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What is a process through which unique cultures regain a sense of identity, such as through promoting heritage and languages, or reviving traditions and culture called? |
Cultural Revitalization. |
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What is democracy? |
A political system in which the law applies equally to all people; that holds free, fair, and frequent elections of candidates from at least two political parties; has an independent court system; and permits the press and other media to function free of government control. |
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What is the gulf between those who have ready access to computers and the Internet and those who don't called? |
The digital divide. |
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What is globalization? |
The process that is making the world's citizens increasingly interdependent. |
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What is the idea, popularized by Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s, that the entire world and it's inhabitants are becoming one large community interconnected by technology (particularly television) called? |
The idea of a Global Village. |
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What is homogenization? |
A trend towards uniformity, as with world popular culture, as a result of globalization. |
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What is the blending of media and communications technology resulting in new modes of expression and cross cultural consumption called? |
Hybridization. |
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What is individual identity? |
The traits that make up a person's sense of individuality. |
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What is the incorporation of diverse minority groups into mainstream society called? |
Integration. |
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What is intermarriage? |
Marriage between individuals from different cultural, ethnic, or religious groups. |
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What is a woman's chin tattoo called? |
Kauae. |
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What is language? |
A method of human communication, either spoken or written, in which words are combined in an agreed way. |
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What is the pushing of a group to the "margins" of society, where they hold little social, political, or economic power called? |
Marginalization. |
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What is media concentration? |
A process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media. |
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What is the merging of media transnationals that result in a concentration of ownership called? |
Media Consolidation (or Convergence). |
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What is a media transnational? |
A mass media corporation that produces television programs, films, music, books, and so on in two or more countries. |
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What are urban centers with populations of over 10 million called? |
A megacity. |
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Who are the Metis? |
A person of mixed American Indian and Euro-American ancestry. |
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What is a very large city called? |
A metropolis. |
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What is Michif? |
The language of the Metis people. |
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What is an ethnic, linguistic, or religious group whose numbers are small compared to those of the dominant culture called? |
A minority group. |
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What is a monoculture? |
The uniform global popular culture that results from globalization. |
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What is the view that the various cultures in society merit equal respect and scholarly interest called? |
Multiculturalism. |
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What is the NWAC? |
The Native Woman's Association of Canada; a group founded in 1974 to enhance, promote, and foster the social, economic, cultural, and political well being of First Nations and Metis women within the First Nations and Canadian Societies. |
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What is an official government policy under which a country or province recognizes two official languages called? |
Official Bilingualism. |
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What is outsourcing? |
The practice of obtaining goods from an outside or foreign supplier, especially in place of an internal source. |
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What is a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something, also known as a point of view called? |
A perspective. |
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What is a pluralistic society? |
A society in which a diversity of languages, beliefs, traditions, values, religions, and other aspects of culture are embedded as part of the foundations of the country; a society that respects and values the individual and collective opinions and identities of all people. |
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What is culture transmitted from mass media and aimed particularly at younger people called? |
Popular culture. |
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What is retail operation? |
Businesses that sell goods and services to the public. |
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What is the complete separation between matters of the state and religion called? |
Secularism. |
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What is a society? |
A group of people who formed an ordered community centered on kinship, an ideology, a religion, or a particular worldview. |
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What is Canada's National Francophone public broadcaster of television and radio programming called? |
SRC; Societe Radio-Canada. |
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What is Ta Moko? |
Permanent body and face markings of indigenous New Zealand peoples. |
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What are the customs of a family or culture called? |
Traditions. |
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What is a transnational corporation? |
Corporations that operate in two or more countries; also, people who are citizens of two or more countries. |
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What is it called to make something universal, or to generalize something? |
Universalization. |
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What is the universalization of pop culture? |
The production by media transnationals of the majority of television programs, films, magazines, and so on that are consumed by a vast world audience. |
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What is the growth of towns and cities as people migrate from rural areas in search of work and other opportunities called? |
Urbanization. |
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What is the Woven World term implying? |
It implies that the world is becoming so tightly knit together, that there aren't many boundaries. |
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What are the three basic aspects of globalization? |
Political, Economic, and Social. |
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What are the four forces affecting globalization? |
Communication, Media, Transportation, and Trade. |
