Lesson 3.3
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Description
Module 3 Section 2
Section 2 Inquiry
Section 2 Inquiry
What are the contemporary responses to historical legacies of globalization?
Inquiry into the Issue
What are some responses to injustices?
For many people it is much easier to identify the origins of injustices and impacts of historical globalization than to work to end their lingering effects. Through media and global campaigns, many Indigenous peoples who face everyday life challenged by the ongoing legacies of imperialist practices are demanding actions to create change. Change can be proposed by Indigenous individuals or groups, governments, or diverse individuals who share common concerns about how the actions and decisions of the past have created global issues in the lives of Indigenous peoples now.
In this section you will examine the lingering legacies that continue to have an impact on the everyday lives of Aboriginal peoples in Canada. You will explore whether we as a contemporary society have the moral and ethical responsibilities to resolve the injustices of historical globalization. You will also assess the attempts to address those legacies. These inquiries will prepare your response to the following question: To what extent should contemporary society respond to the legacies of historical globalization?
How quickly does news spread in your school or community? The analogy that news spreads like wildfire existed long before cellphones and the Internet, but twenty-first-century communication has incredibly sped up how quickly people are informed. There are many activists, such as those who created the DigiActive website, who take advantage of twenty-first-century technology to speed up responses to global events.
“Tools like the Internet and mobile phones let us communicate with other people who share our concerns, to disseminate a message of change, to organize and inform ourselves, to lobby the government, to take part in activism.”
Mission statement from DigiActive
www.DigiActive.org
Assignment
Please complete the Global Events Forum Assignment now.
Section 2 Lesson 1
Lesson 1 – Historical Globalization
What are the lingering consequences?
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Lingering consequences are results that continue to impact people generations later. The past decisions and actions involving Indigenous peoples continue to create issues of identity, citizenship, and quality of life. In North America, Aboriginal peoples continue to face the lingering consequences of the resulting relationships and roles the British Crown and later Canadian governments created. It is not just Aboriginal peoples in Canada who must resolve these lingering consequences, but also non-Aboriginal peoples. Many believe these are impacts that affect all people in Canadian society and must be resolved in order for Canada to truly be an inclusive and fair society. In 2008 the Papaschase First Nation in South Edmonton took their experience of lingering consequences to the Supreme Court of Canada in search of a resolution. For many Edmontonians who owned homes and businesses in South Edmonton, this Supreme Court claim also had the potential of becoming a consequence on their own lives. |
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Activity (not for marks)
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Explore 1
Explore 1
Which global issues have origins in imperialist policies and practices?
The Papaschase land claim is one example of how the loss of land and the dispersal of band members by 1930 have lingering consequences on the identity and citizenship of Papaschase members today.
Read
Read “Civil Strife in the Democratic Republic of Congo” on pages 193 and 194 in Perspectives on Globalization.
What is the civil conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Read “Learning from Past Mistakes” on pages 196 to 200 in Perspectives on Globalization.
What issues are impacting the people of the Chiapas region of Mexico?
Internet Research
Research the issues that emerged with the partition of India. Watch a historical video about the conflict in Kashmir after the withdrawal of British rule in India – War in Kashmir (1965). You can find this in the History Study Center, Online Reference Centre at www.learnalberta.ca
Research the issues that emerged from British colonialism in Kenya. Watch the video Kenya’s Problems 1954–1986 in the History Study Center, Online Reference Centre at www.learnalberta.ca
Research the crisis in Darfur, Sudan. Read the New York Times article “Darfur’s Agony,” April 14, 2008, in the eLibrary Canada, Online Reference Centre at www.learnalberta.ca
Explore 2
Explore 2
Which legacies continue to influence contemporary globalization?
 conflict diamond or blood diamond: a diamond sold to finance terrorism or conflicts such as civil |
Have you heard of conflict diamonds or blood diamonds? Most people in the Western world appreciate the monetary value and the cultural significance of a diamond. Recent commercials instill the diamond with values of hope, love, commitment, and self-reward. The demand for diamonds over more precious gemstones dates back to the Victorian era when diamonds became a symbol of a promise to marry. This industry continues to be strong, with $5.9 billion in 2007 diamond sales as reported by the global diamond company de Beers. |
Internet Research
Research the issues related to the diamond market in the Western world and the diamond industry in Sierra Leone. The History Channel website offers a series of streaming video about blood diamonds.
Assignment
Please complete the Awareness Campaign Assignment Assignment.
Explore 3
What are the moral and legal responsibilities?
Explore 3
Often you will become aware of issues related to the legacies of historical globalization from one perspective—that of the individual or group that has endured the consequences over the generations. Active global citizenship for individuals and groups means to respond to injustices. This leads to the debate over whose responsibility it is to redress the issues of the past. Are people morally responsible? Is there a legal responsibility held by citizens and countries to right the mistakes of the past?
Compensation and acknowledgements of injustices that took place during the internment of Japanese people in Canada, the Head Tax, and discriminatory immigration laws placed on Chinese people are examples of the Canadian federal government taking responsibility for past actions. Other groups have now taken steps to have current governments correct the legacies imposed on them. This has raised the debate over the extent that contemporary societies should pay for the actions of past governments and the form that restitution and redress should take.
In a 2006 Environics poll, a growing number of Canadians expressed that change is desired to address Aboriginal issues.
A March 2006 Environics poll indicates that 62% of Canadians want to see the poor social conditions of First Nations improve (a 12-point jump from 2003) and also indicates that 52% of Canadians do not blame First Nations for these conditions but instead identify federal government policies and Canadians’ attitudes as the main problems (an eight-point jump since 1997).
“Public Awareness and Public Education,” Assembly of First Nations 2005-2006 Annual Report, (Ottawa: 2006), p 39.
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redress: to set right or make up for a wrongful act morally: according to a set of principles on what is believed to be the right thing to do legally: according to what is permitted by a set of laws restitution: an action to correct a wrongful act reconciliation: an act that will correct an injustice in hopes of restoring peace and stability |