Globalization & Identity Opportunities PDF

Globalization & Identity Opportunities  Key Vocabulary Covered Accommodation Acculturation Affirmation of Identity Integration Cultural Media Revitalization Convergence Media...

Globalization & Identity Opportunities  Key Vocabulary Covered Accommodation Acculturation Affirmation of Identity Integration Cultural Media Revitalization Convergence Media CRTC CBC Consolidation ATPN CanCon Radio-Canada (SRC) Official Languages “Bi and Bi Bill 101 Act Commission”  Accommodation Synonyms Definition Examples ❖ To consider and An inclusive approach ❖ Turbans in RCMP meet needs that allows for uniform religious or ethnic groups to maintain ❖ Hijabs in soccer ❖ To make fit their distinctive culture within ❖ To make room for mainstream society ❖ Vegetarian options at a dinner party Making adjustments to allow for differences  Integration Synonyms Definition Examples ❖ To combine The incorporation of Foreign foods ❖ To blend diverse minority sections at the ❖ To harmonize groups into grocery store ❖ To merge mainstream society Remakes of foreign Providing equal films opportunity for participation of different groups in society Acculturation Definition Examples A change in an East Indian people individual / group as dressing in Western a result of contact clothing with a different culture SOMETIMES can lead to assimilation  Cultural Revitalization To bring new life to identities and culture Example: Inuit of Nunavut ❖ 1900s → European missionaries converted many Inuit to Christianity, banned their traditional beliefs, and replaced Inuktitut language with English ❖ 1970s → Inuit worked to promote Inuit way of life ❖ 1999 → Nunavut is created. Inuit government is established  Affirmation of Identity To assert yourself as part of a community; to acknowledge that you belong to a group. Example: Creation of Francophone Schools ❖ 1993 → Francophone Albertans gained the right to manage their own French schools Example: Cultural Celebrations ❖ Any time you attend a cultural event, you are affirming your identity  Problem: The forces of globalization push cultures towards homogenization Example: ❖ Transnational corporations push for the universalization of popular culture ❖ Minority languages are forced towards extinction  Media Convergence Media Consolidation  Media Convergence Media Consolidation  Solution: Combat homogenization through programs designed to protect and affirm culture  CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) Purpose → to promote and revitalize Canadian culture on TV and radio CRTC ensures that Canadian programming reflects: ❖ Canadian creativity and talent ❖ Bilingual duality ❖ Cultural diversity ❖ Aboriginal culture ❖ Diverse Canadian social views  CRTC (Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission) CanCon → “Canadian Content” ❖ 55% of all TV and radio broadcasts must be CanCon. ❖ To be considered CanCon, 2 out of 4 MAPL requirements must be met: Music → composed by a Canadian Artist → performed by a Canadian Performance → recorded in Canada Lyrics → written by a Canadian Arguments FOR the CRTC - Stops transnational companies from taking over - Stops the Americanization of Canadian culture - Protects Canadian artists 14 Other Corporations Preserving Canadian Culture CBC Radio-Canada APTN Canadian (SRC) Aboriginal Peoples Broadcasting CBC is an anglophone Television Network Corporation broadcaster Promotes Indigenous Express diversity in la Societe Radio- languages and Canadian Canada is a cultures perspectives, Francophone language, and broadcaster cultures Canada’s Official Languages Act, 1969 Goal: To preserve the French Language Created by: Canadian Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (a.k.a. “Bi and Bi Commission”) Main Outcome: All federal institutions required to provide services in both English and French; French and English now have equal status in the government of Canada  Later…. Quebec’s Charter of the French Language (Bill 101) ❖ This Bill made French the official language of Quebec ❖ It also made French the main language of instruction for all schools in Quebec from Kindergarten to Grade 12 ❖ 50,000 angry Anglophones left Quebec in 1977  What does the cartoon communicate about tensions between Anglophones and Francophones as a result of Bill 101? Solution to Bill 101 → The Charter of Rights and Freedoms ❖ Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms deemed Bill 101’s education clause unconstitutional ❖ Charter guaranteed parents’ right to choose whether their child attends school in English or French Globalization & Identity Challenges  Key Vocabulary Covered Homogenization Americanization of Marginalization Culture Dominant Culture Assimilation Universalization of Minority Group Popular Culture Monoculture Melting Pot Cultural Mosaic Cultural Pluralism  Homogenization Synonyms Definition Connected Terms ❖ To become more The process in which ❖ Assimilation alike cultures become ❖ Universalization more alike in terms of of Popular values, attitudes, Culture ❖ To become the ❖ Americanization beliefs, customs, same language, and of Culture traditions. ❖ Monoculture The erasure of cultural diversity.  Assimilation Definition Examples The process in which ❖ Residential a minority culture is Schools in absorbed into Canada dominant culture. ❖ Franco- Canadians before French Things that made immersion that culture unique schools disappear. Often involves loss of language.  Monoculture Definition “Mono” = “one” One culture  Melting Pot Definition Erasing cultural uniqueness to create one culture Related Concepts: Assimilation; monoculture; homogenization  Cultural Mosaic Definition Recognizing and celebrating distinct cultures within one nation Related Concepts: Cultural diversity; multiculturalism; cultural pluralism  Marginalization Synonyms Definition Example ❖ To push to the Occurs when society ❖ South African Ap side fails to value the artheid identity of a minority group ❖ “Untouchables” - Caste System in India