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Social 10-2 Unit Exam

Understandings of Globalization

Question: Outsourcing is a form of what type of Globalization?
Answer: Outsourcing 

Question: Which one of the following companies is not an example of a Transnational: Mcdonald's, Adidas, Sobeys, Starbucks
Answer: Sobeys

Question: What are the three forms of Globalization?
Answer: Political, Economic, Social

Question: List one of the three reasons more developed countries benefit from Globalization the most.
Answer: Their developed infrastructures, institutions, and education systems 

Question: What does NAFTA's investment chapter give foreign corperations the right to do?
Answer: Sue the Canadian Government

Canadian Culture

Question: What is the difference between a Individual Identity and a Collective Identity?
Answer: Individual identity define the individual. Collective Identity defines a group.

Question: Which was the first European group to explore and establish communities beginning around the 16th century in Canada?
Answer: The French

Question: The first Metis were the children of which two groups?
Answer: First Nations and French

Question: What aspect of Bill 101 did the Supreme court see as a contradiction to the Canadian Charter of rights and Freedoms?
Answer: Sign Laws

Question: List three main elements of Bill 101
Answer: French was made the official language of the province, Students had to attend Francophone schools, All outside signs had to be predominately in French.

Impact of Communications Technologies and Media

Question: The spread of one popular culture around the world
Answer: Universalization of popular culture

Question: Which commission helps Canadian producers, actors, directors , and musicians get work and exposure in Canada and and around the world?
Answer: The CRTC

Question: The joining of Internet giant AOL with publishing and film corporation Time-Warner is an example of what?

Answer: media convergence 

Question: Name one non English network that broadcasts in Canada.
Answer: Aptn(Aboriginals people's television network), SRC(radio-Canada)

Question: List a negative and positive view of hybridization.
Answer: Positive- An increase in creative cultural possibilities that may counter cultural universalization.
Negative- Risk losing the distinct nature of personal and cultural identities in the mixture of two forms. 



Challenges of Globalization

Question: The process by which cultures become more alike in terms of values, attitudes, beliefs, customs, language, and traditions.
Answer: Homogenization 

Question: Through what method is popular culture spreading much faster than it used to?
Answer: Media(Television, Internet)

Question: What focus was lost when French immersion schools began to focus on French language instruction for non francophone students?
Answer: Francophone Culture

Question: What two things did the Inuit want when negotiating for Nunavut?Self___ and a ___claims___
Answer: Nunavut was formed after the Inuit negotiated for self-government and a land claims settlement. 

Question: In 1982 what group of people were recognized as Aboriginal and through what act were they recognized? 
Answer: Metis, Constitutional Act

Promotion of culture and language

Question: What is cultural legislation 
Answer: Government laws to regulate aspects of Canadian Culture 

Question: Name one of the three ways that Metis, First Nations and Inuit have used to promote and revitalize their language and culture 
Answer: education, political lobbying, promotion of cultural events and the use of media. 

Question: Why would someone in Canada not support multiculturalism?
Answer: They could argue it takes away from Canadian identity

Question: Section 23 of the charter gives parents who belong to the official language minority in their province the right to...
Answer: Have their children educated in their first language

Question: List the three objectives of the Languages Act.
Answer: The equality of English and French in parliament, the preservation and development of official language communities in Canada, and the equality of English and French in Canadian society.