1.6.2 Unit One Review


In this unit, you considered the following questions:

  • What is globalization?
  • What shapes your identity?
  • Does globalization threaten or enrich your identity?

What did you learn?

globalization
Globalization is the process by which people around the world are becoming increasingly interconnected through trade, the media and migration. It has both positive and negative effects on individuals and societies.
Globalization is the process by which people around the world are becoming increasingly connected. Your identity is shaped by many factors, including your
tradition
refers to all of the following-an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice or a social custom);the handing down of information, beliefs, and customs from one generation; cultural continuity in social attitudes, customs, and institutions.
traditions, language,
religion
a system of beliefs that involves the existence or nonexistence of at least one of a human soul, spirit, a deity, a higher being, or self after the death of one's body
religion, and
spirituality
a concern for the things of the spirit or the supernatural.
spirituality, relationship to the land, and your role models. You express your
identity
Your distinct characteristics and personality which is shaped by many factors.
identity in many ways. The factors that influence you and the ways you express yourself are shaped by global forces.

Sometimes globalization enriches your identity and sometimes it damages it. Sometimes it does both. When your identity absorbs some aspects of another culture,
acculturation
How one culture changes when it is affected by another. As societies interact, they absorb some of the aspects of other cultures and change as a result. Individuals are acculturated when their roles and behaviour change due to the influence of another culture.
acculturation occurs. The process of cultures taking on aspects of another culture is
hybridization
When cultures change due to influences of other cultures, and a new culture results.
hybridization. However, when they blend into one culture, the process is
homogenization
The process by which all cultures gradually lose their distinctive features and one blended culture results.
homogenization. If one culture loses some of its uniqueness by becoming dominated by another, that also is acculturation. If it loses all its power, the process is
marginalization
Marginalization occurs when a less dominant group picks up some of the habits and customs of the more dominant society, becoming incompletely assimilated and no longer belonging to any cultural group. A marginalized group of people are pushed out of the mainstream to the fringes of society.
marginalization. Several
perspective
Your point of view which is shaped by your background and experiences. Each person has his or her own perspective through which they see and understand the world around them.
perspectives are possible on the effect of globalization on your identity.

In Unit Seven, you will learn more about the effect of globalization on people and cultures.

Complete the Unit 1 review quiz on the next page.

This review quiz is for marks.

The quiz is open-book, unsupervised, and composed of multiple-choice questions.

Review the main ideas and terms in the unit before you complete the quiz.

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After reviewing the feedback on your first attempt, you may complete the quiz a second time.  If you make a second attempt on the quiz, your mark will be the average of the two attempts.

Together, all Unit Review Quizzes are worth 10% of your final mark.

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