Concepts and Terms


To what extent should globalization shape identity?

Explore this issue by breaking it into further questions.

  • Who am I?

  • What shapes my identity?

  • What does globalization have to do with me?

  • How does globalization enrich me?

  • Does globalization negatively affect my identity?


In this unit, you will learn more about the following big ideas;

  • Globalization affects all of us.

  • Globalization has positive and negative effects.

  • Individuals have different perspectives on globalization.

  • You have a unique identity as an individual.


Your identity is shaped by language, traditions, religion and spirituality, the arts, clothing, role models, relationship to the land, and ideologies. Globalization influences all of these factors of identity.

The following are important words in this unit. Select the word to read the definition, or look in the online glossary.

Aboriginal people(s)

accommodation

acculturation

affirmation

the arts

apartheid

assimilation

business process outsourcing

citizen

culture


cultural revitalization

customs

diversity

dominant

First Nations

Francophone

global village

globalization

homogenization

hybridization

identity

ideology

idiolect

imperialism

Indigenous

integration

Inuit

marginalization

media

Métis


mother tongue

multiple perspectives

oral traditions

perspective

pluralism

religion

spirituality

tolerance

tradition

values