Globalization & Identity: Opportunities

Globalization & Identity: Opportunities

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• The title indicates a focus on globalization and identity, considering opportunities.
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Key Vocabulary Covered

• Accommodation: An inclusive approach allowing religious or ethnic groups to maintain their cultural distinctiveness within mainstream society. It involves considering needs and making adjustments.
• Integration: The incorporation of diverse minority groups into mainstream society, with equal participation opportunities.
• Media Consolidation: The merging or combining of media companies.
• Acculturation: A change in an individual or group due to contact with a different culture, sometimes leading to assimilation. Examples include East Indians adopting Western clothing.
• Cultural Revitalization: This brings new life to identities and culture, exemplified by the Inuit of Nunavut, who worked to promote their way of life and establish their government. This started in the 1970s and 1990s.
• Affirmation of Identity: Asserting self within a community and acknowledging belonging to a group. Specific examples provided are cultural celebrations and the creation of Francophone schools in 1993, in which Francophone Albertans gained the right to manage their own French schools.
• Media Convergence: Merging of various media forms.
• CRTC: (Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission). Aims to promote and revitalize Canadian culture, including Canadian creativity, bilingualism, cultural diversity, Aboriginal Culture, and diverse Canadian social views. A core aspect is Canadian content (CanCon) to be composed by Canadian artists, performed by Canadian artists, and within a Canadian Performance and with lyrics written by a Canadian
• CanCon: Canadian content in TV and radio broadcasts. It must comprise 55% of Canadian TV and radio broadcasts, and two of four MAPL requirements are needed. These are music composed by Canadian artist, performed by Canadian artist, recorded in Canada and lyrics written by a Canadian.
• Radio-Canada (SRC): An anglophone broadcaster. La Société Radio-Canada is a Francophone broadcaster.
• APTN: (Aboriginal People's Television Network). Promotes Indigenous languages and cultures.
• Official Languages Act (1969): To preserve the French language. Created by the Canadian Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (a.k.a. "Bi and Bi Commission"). All federal institutions must provide services in both English and French.
• Bill 101 (Quebec's Charter of the French Language): Made French the official language of Quebec. French became the main language for instruction in all schools. This led to 50,000 Anglophones leaving Quebec in 1977.

Problem

• Globalization's forces push cultures toward homogenization (becoming more alike).
• Transnational corporations promote popular culture globally, leading to the extinction of minority languages.

Media Convergence and Consolidation

• Media companies merge for larger corporations like Disney.
• This leads to consolidation, with companies controlling large portions of media.

Solution

• Combatting homogenization through programs that support and preserve culture is addressed.

Globalization & Identity: Challenges

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Key Vocabulary: Challenges

• Homogenization: The process in which cultures become more alike.
• Dominant Culture: The prevalent culture in a region or society.
• Minority Group: A culturally distinct group that is less dominant.
• Melting Pot: A metaphor representing the blending of different cultures.
• Americanization of Culture: The adoption of American culture.
• Universalization of Popular Culture: The spreading of popular culture worldwide.
• Marginalization: When a minority group's identity is undervalued or pushed aside by a dominant culture.
• Assimilation: When a minority group adopts the dominant culture's ways.
• Mono Culture: One culture
• Cultural Pluralism: Multiple cultures existing side by side without conflict and maintaining their uniqueness.
• Cultural Mosaic: A representation of multiple cultures within society, celebrating their diversity.

Homogenization

• The process in which cultures become more alike.
• Connected terms include assimilation, universalization of popular culture, Americanization of culture, and monoculture.
• The process leads to the erasure of cultural diversity.

Assimilation

• The process in which a minority culture is absorbed into the mainstream or dominant culture.
• Features like language loss are often associated.
• Examples include Residential Schools that aimed to assimilate Franco-Canadians.

Monoculture

• It refers to a society with one single culture which involves a single overriding culture.

Melting Pot

• The cultural merging that occurs when people from different cultures come together in one area.
• Related concepts include assimilation, monoculture, and homogenization which are connected to erasing cultural diversity.