The Impact of Globalization on Cultural Identities: Challenges and Responses

1. Challenges of Globalization to Identities

2. Focus • How does globalization challenge identities and cultures? • As a person with a unique identity, you have probably witnessed or experienced some of the challenges of globalization

3. Chapter Issue • How should we respond to the challenges that globalization poses to identity? • Remember this leads back to our main topic question for unit one: Should globalization shape identity?

4. In what ways does globalization challenge identity? • Turn to page 56. • Read the two articles in the middle of the page. • What do these articles suggest about the challenges facing Francophone Canadians who are a minority in the province where they live?

5. Challenges to Identity • Canada is a PLURALISTIC society. This means that the values and practices of different cultures within our society have become part of our whole society. • Members of a society can see their identities respected and included as a part of Canada.

6. Homogenization and Assimilation • The challenges of homogenization and assimilation often go hand in hand. • Homogenization describes the process by which cultures become more alike. • Assimilation occurs when one culture is absorbed into another culture

7. Homogenization and Youth Culture • Clothing, music, television, video games and books are all products that you use- and they help shape your identity. • In a globalizing world, products are imported from all over the world • Do you watch America movies, or wear clothes that are popular in Los Angeles or New York?

8. Pop Culture and Globalization • Part of the challenge of homogenization is that popular culture is spreading much faster than it used to, through TV and the Internet

9. Celebrity Endorsements • In what ways might celebrity advertising affect the homogenization of popular culture?

10. Vocabulary • French Immersion School: a school designated to teach French to students whose first language is not French • Francophone school: a school that is designed to educate francophone students in their own language and to affirm their identity

11. Pages 58-60 • Read pages 58-60. • On page 60, look at # 2 a-both bullets • You will be working with a partner to complete this assignment.

12. Marginalization • Have you ever felt pushed aside in a group of people? Have you ever thought that you were not being recognized or respected? • Marginalization results when a society fails to value the identity or culture of a smaller group • Most marginalized groups are minorities

13. Marginalization of the Inuit in Canada • The Inuit had little contact with any other group until the 1850s. • Minerals and oil attracted people and businesses to the region • They brought with them different ideas and ways of doing things • In a drive to extract resources from the North, newcomers pushed aside the concerns of the Inuit.

14. Resisting Marginalization • In the early 1970s, Inuit in Canada began to negotiate for self-government and a lands claim settlement. On April 1, 1999, the new territory of Nunavut was created. The government of Nunavut is based on traditional Inuit values. • The Inuit have the right to hunt and fish on their land, and they have control over the natural resources.

15. Accommodation & Integration • Accommodation involves making adjustments for people to allow for differences • Integration means providing equal opportunity for participation of different groups in society • One of the challenges of globalization is creating an environment where all people can participate fairly and equally

16. Pages 66-68 • Read the text to learn more about the accommodation of the Métis people.

17. Creating a Mosaic • A mosaic is an art form that is a picture or design created by shaping similarly sized pieces together of different colors and putting them together to make a whole.