Chapter 7

Globalization

• Mankind to humankind or humanity.
• The act of becoming global.
• In 2006, for example, the Haisla people of British Columbia reclaimed the totem pole, called the G'psgolox pole, from the National Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, Sweden.
• Claimed Africa as his own personal property. He forced Indigenous peoples of the Congo to give up their land and to harvest rubber. Indigenous peoples who resisted were punished brutally and many died of diseases.

context

• Iranian celebrate Chahar Shanbeh Siri or last Wednesday.
• Cultural revitalization is one way for nation or people to keep cultural identity from being absorbed into the "industrial-strength blender" of globalization.
• the circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text
• The value of all the goods and services a country produces in a year. GDP is often used to measure the strength of a country's economy.

Individual Identity

• The physical and psychological characteristics that distinguish you.
• Language shapes and determine how people perceive and understand the world.
• history and background
• Community courts established in Rwanda to try low-level officials and ordinary people accused of taking part in the Rwandan genocide. The purpose of these courts was to speed up the process of bringing to justice those who had participated in the genocide and to encourage reconciliation.

Ways to express individual identity.

• Traditions, Language, Clothing, Tattoos and Piercing
• A collection of terms used used by the members of a social collectives. Ex. Teens.
• Global communication systems.
• Iranian women have been wearing earring for 4000+years. Tattoo is another form of body adornment.

Iranian tradition?

• Many other countries have also pssed lasas and regulations about media content to help protect their cultural identities. The following are some examples...
• Iranian celebrate Chahar Shanbeh Siri or last Wednesday.
• Community courts established in Rwanda to try low-level officials and ordinary people accused of taking part in the Rwandan genocide. The purpose of these courts was to speed up the process of bringing to justice those who had participated in the genocide and to encourage reconciliation.
• In 1971, Canada became the first country in the world to adopt ..... as official government policy

Last Wednesday

• Companies that sell the same products worldwide
• Celebrates coming of a new year: The Iranian build and jump over a bonfire to symbolize purification, banishes illness and bad luck.
• variety in plant and animal species
• individuals and groups across Canada and around the world are working to keep....

Finnish sauna?

• Iranian women have been wearing earring for 4000+years. Tattoo is another form of body adornment.
• Cultural revitalization is one way for nation or people to keep cultural identity from being absorbed into the "industrial-strength blender" of globalization.
• Sweat bath, cleans and heals the body and purifies the mind.
• Kainai people, who are part of the Blackfoot Natuon, wanted their artifacts returned.

Tradition examples?

• Prayer, eating certain food, wearing specific clothing, performing certain rituals.
• Top three global languages in terms of number of speakers
• form of ethnocentrism that uses European ethnic, national, religious and linguistic criteria to judge other peoples and their cultures
• individuals and groups across Canada and around the world are working to keep....

Language as an individual identity.

• English had relatively few word for snow. Inuit have many words to describe the kind and condition of the snow.
• Debate on how many languages there are because:
• Global communication systems.
• International trade.

Clothing as an individual identity.

• Celebrates coming of a new year: The Iranian build and jump over a bonfire to symbolize purification, banishes illness and bad luck.
• The types of clothing you wear or so not wear may reflect interest, heritage, traditions or beliefs.
• The act of becoming global.
• Identity shared with members of a larger group