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- 1POINT OF VIEWan individuals opinion about a specific matter, based on a personal experience
- 2PERSPECTIVEsomeone's worldview, one that has developed from its collective experience
- 3CRITICAL THINKINGthe objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgment
- 4SOCIETYa group of people who form an ordered community centred on kinship, an ideology, a religion, or a particular worldview
- 5GLOBALIZATIONthe process that is making the world's citizens increasingly interdependent economically, socially, politically, environmentally, and technologically
- 6TRANSITIONALS/MULTINATIONScorporations that operate in two or more countries; also, people who are citizens of more than one country
Ex- Apple - 7COLLECTIVE IDENTITYthe combination of beliefs, values, view of history, and language of a people
Ex- the GSA’s values - 8INDIVIDUAL IDENTITYthe traits that make up a person's sense of individuality
Ex- an individual's favourite colour, music, and their values - 9INTEGRATIONthe incorporation of diverse minority groups into mainstream society
Ex- welcoming people with different ethnic backgrounds into your community - 10HOMOGENIZATIONcultures and identities becoming more similar to each other caused by globalization
Ex- westernization, the spread of culture and ideas from America - 11HYBRIDIZATIONthe blending of media and communication technologies resulting in new modes of expression and cross-cultural consumption
Ex- the english language - 12ACCOMIDATIONan arrangement that allows individuals and groups to practice their religion and maintain their identity within the surrounding society
Ex- the legalization of gay marriage - 13ACULTURATIONchanges/alters in a culture in conclusion of contact with other people and their cultures
Ex- once Japan ended its state of isolation many new cultures were adapted - 14MIGRATIONa movement of people from one place to another usually as a result of societal changes of their home land
Ex- European migrant crisis: 2015 people flood the European Union - 15MARGINALIZATIONpushing a group of people to the edge of society leaving them with little power and a loss of identity
Ex- members of ISIS - 16ASSIMILATIONthe process of one group taking over another group and forcing beliefs, culture, and identity onto them
Ex- First Nations assimilated by the Europeans and being sent to residential school - 17CULTURE REVITALIZATIONresurfacing a culture that may have lost it uniqueness and/or identity by sharing heritage and practices
Ex- the First Nations culture after the Europeans assimilated them - 18COMMUNICATION AND TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGYmore developed and globalized nations will have greater advances in communication and transportation technology
- 19IDENTITYThe characteristics determining who or what a person is
Ex- peers, occupation, heritage, language, gender, sexuality, etc
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