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Globalization
- Acculturation
- Definition: Adopting culture and traditions
of another group, not your own.
- Example:When my parents move to Canada from
Pakistan they adopted the Canadian way of
dressing, the language, the attitude of minding
your own business, food ( pizza, bread, lasagna ).
- Connection : When immigrants come
to different countries they adopt the
country's way of living, this happens
all over the globe.
- Assimilation
- Example: When the Europeans came to Canada
and learnt of the First Nations different culture,
customs, and traditions they didn’t agree with
it Believing they were superior they assimilated
First Nation children in the form of Residential
schools, when the children came out they had
completely lost their identity, they knew
nothing of their heritage.
- Connection: Assimilation is a loss of identity,
you lose what makes up your identity
culture, clothes, religion, traditions.
- Definition: To take in and become
like others, adopt others way of life,
being absorbed into something
different.
- Hybridization
- Definition: To produce hybrids, two things combined
together, a bit of each item. When lo0king at it from
a socIal studies perspective it means combining two
or more cultures together, combining traditions and
customs, creating something new.
- Example: The best example of this would be the Métis people
who are a combination of the French and the Indigenous
people. Another example would be immigrants who come to
Canada and then have children in Canada. These children
would likely adopt Canadian aspects of Canadian culture but at
he same time keep aspects of their own culture.
- Connection: Being from a hybrid culture can be incredibly
difficult. For example the Métis people had to fight for land
because the governmnet wouldn't acknowledge their
indeginous side and only focused on their French side. Finding
your place inbetween the two cutures isn't easy , your not fully
French so you don't fit in with them but at the same time you
aren't fully an indeginous person either. When people won't
accept a part of your heritage your identity suffers.
- Cultural Revitalization
- Definition: Bringing back a culture/way of life that
is fading away/gone, promoting cultures.
- Connection: This is a very important thing to do, culture is a big
part of our identity and bringing cultures, all around the world,
that are fading away back, is giving people the chance to still be
who they are and live the way they have been living. Western
culture had spread across the globe so fast and such a strong hold
that minority cultures don't have a vhance to adapt and quicklu lose
- Example: One example of culture revitalization is when the
MNA, Métis Nation of Alberta, in the 1920’s was created to
support and promote Métis culture that was fading away.
Another example is what an organization called PRCF is doing.
The PRCF is trying to revive the weaving cultural arts of the
Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
- Homogenization
- Definition: Becoming
uniform or the same.
- Connection: This is a real concern for many cultures all over the
globe. Homogenization causes a loss in individual identity, it causes
a loss in different traditions, customs, and cultures. Along with the loss of
traditions and culture, homogenization also reduces the chance of
success and new inventions, If everyone dresses the same, watches
the same things, eat the same food, believe in the same things, then
they are going to think alike and when everyone thinks the same
nothing new gets created because inventions are made when a
person thinks differently and looks outside the norm.
- Example: The biggest example of this is the
spreading of western culture, all around the
globe, people watch hollywood movies, listen to
american music, dress in jeans and a shirt, eat
burgers, speak English, the western way of life.
As a result people are losing a bit of their
heritage every time they adopt a western
quality.