GLOBALIZATION
CHAPTER 1-4 REVIEW
GLOBALIZATION?
SHOULD
GLOBALIZATION
SHAPE IDENTITY?
ECONOMIC
SOCIAL
POLITICAL
INDIVIDUAL
COLLECTIVE
MAINTAINING
PROMOTING
UNIVERSALIZATION
HYBRIDIZATION
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
CHAPTER 1: To what extent does
globalization influence my life?
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Does Economic Globalization affect who you are?
• Expansion of World Trade Networks
• Outsourcing, Transnationals
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Does Social Globalization affect who you are?
• Global Media Networks >TV, music, literature, video
games, internet, etc.
• Influence of Western Culture >fashion, lingo
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Does Political Globalization affect you too?
• Global Communications Networks >tsunami fund
• United Nations >Worldwide Decision Making
CHAPTER 2: How does increased
global interaction affect our
individual and collective identities?
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Individual and Collective Identities
• Individual identities separate us
• Collective identities connect us
• Both are shaped by globalization?
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Globalization and Identity
• Evolution of identity >battle for rights
• Aboriginal peoples >Métis, First Nations, Inuit
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Maintaining and Promoting Identity
• Giving up aspects of identity to fit in?
• Losing Linguistic Identity?
• Mosaic vs. Melting Pot
CHAPTER 3: To what extent do
communications technologies and
media shape our identities?

Universalization of Popular Culture
• Transnational Media Companies
• CRTC: good or bad?
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Hybridization: A New Mix (or Re-mix)
• Traditional cultures and communications
• Media and arts forms
• Elements from different cultures

Cultural Diversity through Broadcasting
• Stereotyping, labeling
• Representation of minority groups?
HYBRIDIZATION OR
ASSIMILATION?
CHAPTER 4: How should we
respond to the challenges that
globalization poses to identity?
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Challenges to Identity
• Homogenization >becoming more alike in
values, attitudes, beliefs, customs, language,
and traditions
VS.
Assimilation >minority culture absorbed by
dominant culture; loss of language
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Responses to Challenges to Identity
• Marginalization >who is being left out?
• Resisting Marginalization >what can we do?
• Integration?
CONCLUSIONS

SHOULD GLOBALIZATION SHAPE
IDENTITY?
FURTHER THOUGHTS…

DOES IMMIGRATION AFFECT
IDENTITY?