Lesson 2.1

Lesson Summary and Going Beyond

Lesson Summary

Whether globalization affects people economically, socially, or politically, the outcomes for a group’s culture or language will vary. Drastic economic, social, or political impacts of globalization may lead to language and cultural loss for a collective identity. There are also opportunities to embrace and sustain a unique culture and language through the technologies that globalization can offer.

Going Beyond (not required)

Find out more about the issue of globalization, culture, and identity. Choose from the following activities to develop more understandings of how globalization can be an opportunity and/or challenge for groups of people.

• Susan Aglukark and how she responds to issues of marginalization, assimilation, accommodation, and cultural revitalization from an Inuit perspective
  
• Research the opportunities and/or challenges of one of these collective identities:
  
  
  • Ahwaz refugees in Iraq and Syria
  • San Paulo Apaches in the United States
  • Wamba Wamba peoples of Australia