Globalization and Identity Flashcards

Flashcards to help review lecture notes on Globalization and Identity.

Positive View of Globalization

Globalization involves connecting and uniting people, emphasizing shared needs and aspirations, leading to sustainable prosperity.

Negative View of Globalization

Globalization leads to homogenization, causing diversity to vanish as everyone thinks and acts alike.

Affirming Identity

Striving to protect and sustain individuality, language, and culture in the face of globalizing forces.

Presentation Goal

A presentation that informs the public of your views on how globalization should shape identity and persuades the audience to consider your point of view.

Factors Shaping Identity

Identity is shaped by factors such as family relationships, interests, talents, and religious and spiritual beliefs.

Context Definition

The circumstances or surroundings in which your identity developed.

Role Model

Someone who others look up to for guidance and help in making decisions.

Roles and Identity

Highlighting different aspects of your identity based on the different roles you take on in different contexts.

Expressing Identity

Expressing aspects of identity through language, friends, clothes, food, music, leisure activities, and other actions.

Expressing Identity: Traditions

Traditions, like celebrating Chahar Shanbeh Suri or using a sauna, express aspects of identity.

Language and Identity

Language reflects how people view and understand the world and is an important aspect of people’s identity.

Affiliation

A group or collective to which you belong, which shares ideas, language, traditions, religion, and spirituality.

Collectives

Shape aspects of individual identity and define collectives to which individuals belong.

Language

Uniting people of various backgrounds by giving them something in common.

Slang and Jargon

Slang and jargon are used to affirm identity, maintain group solidarity, and convey precise meaning within a collective.

Lubicon Cree Struggle

The Lubicon Cree's struggle highlights the impact of resource development on their way of life and identity.

Lubicon Cree Goal

Assert and reclaim rights and title to their traditional lands, and try to stop further encroachment and destruction of way of life

Globalization

One perspective is that it creates connections, interdependencies which shape identity and can link people to trade, beliefs, enthusiasm of sport, culture.

Coltan and Connected Identities

Use of conflict minerals for electronics links consumer identities with miners working in dangerous conditions

Balancing Globalization Pressures

Balance the pressures of globalization presents one of the great challenges of the 21st century.