Social 10-2 Related Issue #1 Impacts of Globalization KEY ISSUE: To what extent should we embrace globalization? RELATED ISSUE: Should globalization shape identity? KEY CONCEPTS/ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS/ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: o Everyone has an opinion that has some truth to it o Who we think we are (identity) and how we do things (culture) are both shaped by globalization o People promote language and culture in different ways and with different levels of success o What is globalization? o What is my identity? o What influences my identity? o How are globalization and identity linked to each other? o How has globalization affected my identity? Summary of Issue 1: All steps in each part must be complete before you will be allowed to complete the assessment portion. Part A ASSESSMENT Part B ASSESSMENT Part C ASSESSMENT Part D ASSESSMENT Part E Vocabulary QUIZ Introduction to Globalization QUIZ Identity is… VISUAL/TATTOO Globalization and My Identity INTERVIEW Summative Evaluation (Essay) 1 PART A: VOCABULARY Step One: Connecting #1 Sort and Predict the following words. Globalization Bias Cultural diversity Economic Globalization Individual Identity Homogenization Transnational Collective Identity Assimilation Consumer Role models Marginalization Media Multiculturalism Accommodation Social Globalization Universalization of popular culture Integration Political Globalization Tradition Minority cultural group Step Two: Processing #1 Add the above words to your vocabulary packages Step Three: Transforming Vocabulary QUIZ 2 Migration Acculturation Sort and Predict Issue 1 Sort #1 Use the following rating system to categorize the following words: 0 1 2 3 4 = = = = = Haven't a clue Know I have heard it, but I can't define it Know I have heard it, have some sense of its meaning Have a good sense of its meaning when I see it or hear it Can define it and explain its meaning to someone else Sort #2 Sort the following words into whatever 4 categories you would like Globalization Economic Globalization Transnational Consumer Media Social Globalization Political Globalization Tradition Bias Individual Identity Collective Identity Role models Multiculturalism Universalization of popular culture Minority cultural group Cultural diversity Homogenization Assimilation Marginalization Accommodation Integration Migration Acculturation 3 PART B: INTRODUCTION TO GLOBALIZATION Key Concept: What is globalization? Step One: Connecting #1 Global Connections Survey Highlight or circle the MOST ACCURATE answers to the questions that follow 1. Where are most of your friends from? a. Canada b. A country or countries other than Canada c. Both Canada and other countries d. I don’t know 2. Where do most of the products you use on a daily basis come from? a. Canada b. A country or countries other than Canada c. Both Canada and other countries d. I don’t know 3. Where are you ancestors from? a. Canada b. A country or countries other than Canada c. Both Canada and other countries d. I don’t know 4. Where does most of your digital entertainment (eg movies, television, video and computer games come from)? a. Canada b. A country or countries other than Canada c. Both Canada and other countries d. I don’t know 5. Who do you think has the most impact on the decisions that the Canadian government makes? a. Canada b. A country or countries other than Canada c. Both Canada and other countries d. I don’t know 4 #2 Brainstorm a list of things that you use that do not originate in Canada. #3 Predict where the following items were made or came from, include your reasoning. Old Navy hoodie DVD player Location: Location: Reason: Reason: Tim Horton’s Coffee Cocoa Location: Location: Reason: Reason: Teak Furniture (wooden patio set) Location: Nike runners Location: Reason: Reason: GMC Truck Baseball glove Location: Location: Reason: Reason: Tungsten (filament in light bulbs) Location: Bastnasite (used in making televisions) Location: Reason: Reason: 5 #4 Answer the following discussion questions in complete sentences. 1. Why do you think that not everything you have comes from Canada? 2. What would be some likely reasons why these items came from the places that they did? 3. a. Who do you think might have been involved in the making and marketing of these products? b. How would these products be made? c. How would these products get to Canada? Step Two: Processing #1 Lizzie’s Morning mapping activity Consider a typical day in your life. If you are like most Canadians, you will discover that you are making global connections all day long, perhaps without even realizing it. The story below describes Lizzies typical morning. As you read the story highlight all the places where Lizzie connects with an idea, food, product, person, culture or a service that originated in another country on. Hint: Some are more obvious than others. Then after reading using the map provided locate the places in the story where Lizzie made global connections. 6 Lizzie’s Morning This morning my Japanese made alarm clock woke me up by playing a really annoying British garage band. I got out from under my Egyptian cotton sheets, put on my jeans that were made in China and my American made t-shirt and socks, and checked my messages on Facebook. I was excited to see that my cousin in Australia had added me as a friend. Then I went down to breakfast where my mom had homemade toast, Costa Rican coffee and Flordia orange juice read for me. She was watching CNN on the kitchen TV; there was a story about some disaster in South America, but I wasn’t really paying attention. My dad was sitting at the table reading an email from a business associate in Italy. It was raining out so before I head out the door I grab my umbrella made in Tawian. Then I hopped into my old Honda Civic and race over to my friend Ali’s place so we could both get to our early morning shift at Walmart. Oops I nearly ran out of gas, so I stopped at the local Esso station to fill up, probably contributing to global warming. 7 #2 Introduction to Globalization Reading What’s Important and Why-Notes Pre Reading If our goal is to find out what Globalization is, What kinds of things are important to highlight or pull out? Teaching Globalization By Muqtedar Khan | Thursday, August 28, 2003 Globalization is one of the most studied issues of our time. As a result, many discipline-specific modes of understanding globalization have emerged. But how can one grasp globalization beyond individual disciplines? Muqtedar Khan, Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware, describes how he approaches this subject with his undergraduate students. For the economist, globalization is essentially the emergence of a global market. For the historian, it is an epoch dominated by global capitalism. Defining globalization For the sociologist, globalization at once underscores the celebration of diversity as well as the convergence of social preferences in matters of lifestyle and social values. For the political scientist, globalization is the gradual erosion of state sovereignty. Ultimately, citizens from all political persuasions can find elements in globalization that they welcome. While all discipline-specific studies of globalization do advance a rich and nuanced understanding, each discipline merely explains a part of the phenomenon — just like the proverbial description of an elephant by six blind men. That is why globalization is best understood as a concept that transcends individual disciplines — and also unites them. Globalization must therefore be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective. The three Ps Far beyond the issue of globalization itself, the necessary integration of human 8 sciences to understand it in all its dimensions is one of the many profound consequences of globalization. For my undergraduate students, I usually describe globalization as a threedimensional concept. Globalization is a phenomenon, it is a philosophy — and it is a process. Globalization — First: As a phenomenon These are the three Ps of globalization. Rather than teach under the disciplinary structure — such as economic globalization, political globalization, cultural globalization — we can explore all these dimensions within the context of each ‘P’. Globalization is a phenomenon that manifests the extremely intricate interconnectedness of human life across the planet. While this is not new, its awareness, reach and immediate implications are striking. For example, all of us on planet earth share the same environment. But we did not begin to realize how this shared environment linked our present and future until we became aware of global warming and its causes. Compressing time and space Driving SUVs in North America and cutting trees in Brazil can immediately raise the prospects of skin cancer in Australia — or affect the crops in India through climate changes. Those on the right favor the spread of free markets and investment flows. Those on the left support the emergence of a truly global culture — based on the values of multiculturalism and democracy. Globalization is the complex interconnectedness of peoples present and future. This interconnectedness is becoming the dominant character of our political, cultural, economic — and natural environments. Globalization — Second: As a philosophy In corporate boardrooms and in government situation rooms everywhere, holding a global vision has become the necessary pre-requisite for effective policy and strategy. Globalization is best understood as a concept that at once transcends individual 9 disciplines and also unites them. Governments and corporations can no longer make a successful intervention in the polity or the economy without anticipating and preparing for global consequences. This viewpoint or philosophy of globalization — which essentially describes the reality of being interconnected — is also known as globalism. Globalism holds the following beliefs: The world is rapidly integrating in all spheres. Peoples’ economic, political and cultural expectations are converging. Converging expectations What ultimately helps this process along is that citizens from all political persuasions can find elements in it they welcome. Those on the right favor the spread of free markets and investment flows. Those on the left support the emergence of a truly global culture — based on the values of multiculturalism and democracy. At the same time, globalization — whether we like it or not — is an inevitable and irreversible process. The inevitability of globalization However, the integration of economies, the standardization of politics through the domination of international norms and laws over domestic regulation makes this conclusion inevitable. This integration is, in effect, institutionalizing the philosophy of globalism. This sounds harsh — and is bound to lead to friction, until you realize that, once again, both sides of the debate have something they like. For those on the left and in NGOs, few would want a world without vehicles such as the UN Declaration of Human Rights. And few on the right and in business would advocate a world without the WTO. Single disciplines merely explain a part of the phenomenon — just like the proverbial description of an elephant by six blind men. Globalization — Third: As a process Thus, faith and interest in globalism drives globalization — and, in turn, globalization spreads globalism. The key to understanding globalization is to imagine it as a process that seeks to eliminate political and geographical distances between peoples. The two key engines of globalization are the technology revolution and politico-economic liberalization. www.interconnectedness.org 10 By now, everybody recognizes the potential and the promise of the Internet. The World Wide Web has created a virtual reality that has made time and distance irrelevant. The necessary integration of human sciences to understand globalization is one of its many profound consequences. In many ways, the chat rooms of today are the factories and cultural hubs of the future. They have virtually eliminated physical, temporal and cultural distances between peoples. The world of nation states until now depended on the concept of sovereignty as the organizing principle. In order to realize their sovereign capabilities, states erected a huge legal edifice that disabled any initiative without state authority. The growth of institutional barriers But now with globalization, states are collectively creating an alternate edifice of international norms and regulations through international bodies such as the UN and the WTO. These institutions allow states to monitor activities without acting as barriers to inter-state flows. A world on the move… The new environment of liberalization has made it easier, with the help of technologies, to quickly move people, ideas, capital and goods across borders. Globalization in that sense is basically the heightened mobility of ideas, peoples, goods and capital across borders. This enhanced mobility is the chief process of globalization and its engines are liberalization and technology. Copyright © 2000-2010 by The Globalist. Reproduction of content on this site without The Globalist's written permission is strictly prohibited. Terms of Use | Privacy Policy McPherson Square, 927 15th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005 11 Post Reading What’s Important? Why? 12 #3 Types of Globalization notes Economic Globalization Social Globalization 13 Political Globalization #4 Pros and Cons of Globalization Chart PROS (Positive implications) ex. Enables people to have access to foods from across the world CONS (negative implications) ex. Homogenization=Cultures start to become too much alike 14 #5 RAFT (Role, Audience, Format, Topic) : Globalization from different Perspectives Role Economist, Environmentalist, Human Rights Activist, OR Anthropologist Audience Public Format Topic Advertisements or commercials inform the public about products they can buy or services they can pay for. Public service announcements (PSAs) instead inform the public about a message or an idea. Public service announcements can be effective because they use traditional advertising techniques in a familiar format. Are they Controversial? Not necessarily! Some public service announcements express a strong opinion, or try to encourage people to change their mind about an idea (eg messages about government policy). Other announcements try to raise awareness (eg environmental issues), raise money for a charity (eg an AIDS campaign) or encourage better health (eg healthy eating, stopping smoking or drinking and driving). Globalization The Writing Task: Students will work in groups of two to develop a short public service announcement (PSA) that summarizes how their assigned role feels about globalization. The PSA will be in storyboard format. Use the following to help you plan get started. The Big Idea Consider who will be watching you PSA and what is likely to leave a lasting impression on them. What is the best way to get your message across? After viewing our PSA we want our audience to understand or feel: The Production In order to draw the audience into the PSA, it needs an attention-getter. Our attention getter is: - Select appropriate visuals, actors or photos to match your main idea VISUALS ACTORS PHOTOS - List the sounds and music you will use to enhance your message: Adjust your message to last no more than 30 seconds Conclude your PSA by giving the audience something to remember Remember your PSA needs a clear beginning, middle and end The Finale Now you are ready to create the storyboard on paper or poster board, using sketches, photos, or both. Each scene should be sketched or photographed in sequence. The message (narration, text or dialogue) appearing in each scene should be written below it. Consider what the transition will be from scene to scene and show they transitions in the appropriate places on the storyboard. Describe any movements within the scenes. And be sure to give your storyboard a title 15 Step Three: Transforming Globalization Quiz Multiple Choice True and False Short Answer Mini Essay: What is Globalization? 16 PART C: IDENTITY…. Key Concept: What is identity? What influences my identity? Step One: Connecting #1 Think Pair Share- What does identity mean? Step Two: Processing #2 Common Aspects of Identity notes 17 Step Three: Transforming #1 Identify Yourself: Discovering our Individual Identities This assignment will provide you with the opportunity to explore, identify, and create a symbolic representation of the key aspects of your identity. A. Write a list of five to ten ways you could answer the following questions: Who am I? B. Our identity is made up of many features/characteristics that are contributed to many different aspects of our lives. Use the following categories to help organize the many features and characteristics of your identity. Family Friends Where you live Language Culture Religion or spiritual beliefs Media (including television, movies, newspapers, and the Internet) Other 18 C. Take a closer look at each of your categories. Which one has the strongest influence on your identity? Rank the influences in order from one to ten, one being the most important. For each category explain why you ranked it as you did. Category Family Order of Importance Reasons for ranking Friends Where I live Language Culture/Traditions Religion or spiritual beliefs Arts/Media Other D. Choose the top 4 most influential features/characteristics that shape your identity to now make a symbolic representation of your identity. I. Symbolic Representation Create your own tattoo Create your own tattoo design that would accurately represent you and your individual and collective identity. Your tattoo must include at least 4 factors/characteristics. Use whatever tools necessary to make your tattoo attractive. (draw, paint, cut and paste etc) 19 II. Written Representation Who am I? You must include a detailed explanation of how the elements of your identity are demonstrated within your tattoo. Answer the following discussion questions in your paragraph • • • • • • • • To what extent is your identity defined by your friends? How big a factor are your family’s customs and traditions to your identity? Where do you get your values? Who are your heroes and how do they impact your identity? How might your identity change if you moved to another province or country ? Which of these features are local in scope? Which of these features are global in scope? Which of these features are parts of a larger collective identity? What is the most influential part of a person's identity? Justify your answer. Excellent 5 Proficient 4 Satisfactory 3 SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION Demonstrates an understanding of identity and the elements Chose objects and symbols that represent and are related to individual and collective identity. All borrowed graphics have a source citation. Displays craftsmanship in his/her artwork WRITTEN REPRESENTATION Presents information that has been organized in a clear, understandable way with a focus on a main idea and supports it with explanations and facts Comments 20 Limited 2 Poor 1 PART D: GLOBALIZATION AND IDENTITY Key Concepts: Who we think we are (identity) and how we do things (culture) are both shaped by globalization. How are globalization and identity linked to each other? How has globalization affected my identity? Step One: Connecting #1 PLUS/MINUS Chart: Implications of Globalization on Identity Plus Minus 21 Step Two: Processing #2 Complete the following assignment. Globalization and Identity In what ways could globalization shape our identities? A. Using your textbook (pg 27-28) answer the following questions. Look at captions as well as photos on the page. The Metis Identity There is no better example of the creative effect of globalization on identities than the experience of the Metis. 1. Who are the Metis? What makes them “special”? 2. Why are the Metis consider themselves so distinct? 3. Who are the other 2 groups of Aboriginal peoples in Canada? 4. What languages can they speak? Why? 5. What role did the Metis play in society? 6. Where did the Metis settle? 7. What is their unique language? What is it a mix of? 8. List at least two examples of Metis collective identity. 9. How has global contact affected the Metis identity? 10. How did the Metis lose most of their land? To who? 11. What were some results of losing the land? 22 12. What were the two defining moments in the creation of a strong Metis identity? 13. Today, what two things have resulted in a stronger more vibrant Metis collective identity? B. Do Global Geography Questions #1-4. page 28 below 1. 2. 3. C. Do Explore the Issues Question #3 page 29. D. Answer the following questions about Canadian identity and American influence below. 1. In what ways are our collective Canadian Identities shaped through our interactions with the United States? 23 2. How would you respond to the question: Would you say Canadians and Americans are the same, or different? 1 2 Essentially the same Mainly the same 3 4 Don’t Know Mainly different, with some small similarities 5 Essentially different 3. How would you feel if you were mistakenly referred to as an American? Would it bother you and would you point out that, in fact, you were not American, or would you remain silent? 4. In what ways do we (Canadians) resist American influence? 5. Would it bother you if Canada was absorbed into the wider global culture and we all began to be called “global citizens”, rather than Canadian? 6. What are some possible ways that Canadians, individually or as a group, could respond to challenges to their identity? #3 Complete the chart “Opposing Views of Canadian Identity” using specific information or ideas from the two readings provided. The viewpoints in Reading 1 should DIFFER from the viewpoints in Reading 2. Reading 1 Yes, there is a Canadian Identity As surely as there is a Canada, there is a Canadian identity. Our identity is shaped by our unique history and landscape. Those who deny the existence of a Canadian identity argue that there are only hyphenated Canadians. They argue that each of us has a loyalty or attachment to a culture other than that of Canada. They are correct. It is our diversity and our acceptance of diversity in Canadian life that distinguishes us from other people. If an identity is a quality which distinguishes one from another, then Canada truly has an identity. 24 When Canadians travel abroad they often display the maple leaf to avoid being confused with Americans. We are deeply aware of the historical differences between Canadians and our neighbours. We are a peaceful people. Our institutions are steeped in the British tradition of evolutionary change, based upon the order provided by parliamentary democracy. Despite the regional and cultural differences that divide Canadians from one another, we are a people united in our determination not to be American. Every day we strive to protect our quality of life and our distinctive character. Canadians are a people shaped by their northern environment. Author Margaret Atwood reminds us that Canada’s rugged terrain has imparted a unique quality to the Canadian mind. We are survivors. Canadians are people who have been subdued by our environment. We have learned to survive rather than conquer. The theme of survival is recurrent in our literature and the impact of the physical environment is visible in our art. In spite of the continual struggle between Canadians and the land, we share an optimism that comes from our youth and from the potential of a largely undeveloped land. We are a varied and proud people. That is our identity. Reading 2 No, there is no Canadian Identity For a Canadian identity to exist there must exist a common national experience. The whole Canadian history and the shape of the land on which we live conspire to prevent a common Canadian identity from emerging. The land divides us, prevents us from sharing a common life, and impedes the communication of our experiences to each other. We are not Canadians but Easterners, Westerners and Northerners; Albertans, Quebecers and Nova Scotians. No political or cultural institution has managed to overcome this basic truth. Groups such as the English, Italians, Germans and Japanese have unique histories, values and traditions on which their identities are based. Perhaps only the native people of Canada possess the Canadian identity, despite our efforts to eradicate it. The rest of us are immigrants who have brought foreign values and customs from 25 which we have never detached ourselves. There can be no Canadian identity until Canadians abandon these alien roots and immerse themselves in the new land. Any hope that a Canadian identity would take shape had been overruled by the American presence. The sharing of a common language, our physical proximity, and our inability to counter the sheer force of American numbers has left us victim to a cultural invasion that has left only Quebec’s culture intact. There is no turning back. Even if there was once a uniqueness to Canadian life, it has dissolved amid the images of Happy Days and Dallas. (NOTE: Happy Days and Dallas were popular American television shows in the 1970s and 1980s.) Identities do not exist merely because people inhabit one nation. The identities of people of Europe and Asia gradually emerged over centuries of human interaction. Canada, an infant among nations, has not had time to shape its character. Unique national identities were a product of an age in which nations grew in isolation from each other because language and physical barriers prevailed over man’s curiosity. Opposing Views of Canadian Identity Viewpoint 1 Viewpoint 2 1. ____________________________ 1. ____________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ 2. ____________________________ 2. ____________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ 3. ___________________________ 3. ____________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ 4. ____________________________ 4. ____________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ 5. ____________________________ 5. ____________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ 26 Step Three: Transforming INTERVIEW: Is the influence that globalization has on collective and individual identities a good or bad thing? JUSTIFY Scoring Criteria You will… 5 Excellent 4 Proficient 3 Satisfactory 2 Limited 1 Poor - Provide thoughtful ideas and thorough explanations Provide a specific, relevant and accurate support Show a strong understanding of the issue Provide meaningful ideas and appropriate explanations Provide a relevant and appropriate support that may contain errors Show a clear understanding of the issue Provide straightforward ideas and general explanations Provide general and incompletely developed support that may contain minor errors Show an acceptable understanding of the issue Provide limited ideas with simplistic or unnecessary explanations Provide obvious or irrelevant support that may contain major errors Show limited understanding of the issue Provide few or no ideas Provide superficial, irrelevant or incomplete support with frequent errors Show little to no understanding of the issue 27 PART E: SUMMATIVE EVALUATION AND REFELCTION Key Concepts: Should globalization shape identity? How best to support your position Step One: Connecting #1 What makes good persuasive Writing, examples? Are they good? Bad?Why? In Alice Walker’s "To Hell with Dying," Mr. Sweet was a good companion for the narrator and her siblings. Mr. Sweet always made the narrator feel special. She loved to be around him and was overjoyed whenever he would visit her. Mr. Sweet played with the children just as if he were a child himself. Mr. Sweet also displayed a great deal of respect for the narrator and her family. Even though his alcoholism and lifestyle was a bad influence on the children, his virtues far outweighed his faults. Mr. Sweet had a positive impact on the children that would last their entire lives. He was compassionate, caring, and honest, and the children learned to respect themselves and others from their experiences with Mr. Sweet. He also inspired the children to succeed. Mr. Sweet's lifestyle did not make him an excellent role model for the children, but he was always an excellent companion. In Alice Walker’s "To Hell with Dying," Mr. Sweet was a good companion for the narrator and her siblings. First, Mr. Sweet made the narrator feel special. The narrator recalls that "Mr. Sweet used to call [her] his princess" and that he "made [her] feel pretty at five or six, and simply outrageously devastating at the blazing age of eight and a half." Mr. Sweet also made the narrator feel special by turning to her for support and comfort. During one of his trips to the narrator’s home, Mr. Sweet was feeling especially sad, but the narrator "held his wooly head in [her] arms" to comfort him. She also realized "how much depended on her" during those times when she participated in Mr. Sweet’s revivals, clearly revealing her knowledge that she played a special role in reviving him. Second, Mr. Sweet was a good companion for the narrator and her siblings because of the children’s ability to relate to Mr. Sweet on their own level. Mr. Sweet "had the grace to be shy with us," the narrator says, adding that this quality "is unusual in a grownup." Mr. Sweet would also "dance around the yard" with the children, as if he were a child himself. While his alcoholism may have been the cause of some of his behavior, his drinking problem seemed to help make him a good companion by turning him into an "adult child," at least from the perspective of the narrator. She notes that "his ability to be drunk and sober at the same time made him an ideal playmate." His alcoholism made Mr. Sweet "as weak as [the children] were," and, like a child, the drunken Mr. Sweet could keep at least "a fairly coherent conversation going." His childlike emotional state was also something that the children could relate to at times. The narrator states that after his revivals, Mr. Sweet’s "eyes would get all misty and he would sometimes cry out loud, but we never let it embarrass us, for he knew that we loved him and that we sometimes cried too for no reason." Unlike some adults who can seem distant and intimidating to children, Mr. Sweet is described by the narrator as if he were a child himself. Both Mr. Sweet’s ability to make the narrator feel special and the children’s ability to relate to him on their own level made Mr. Sweet a good companion for the narrator and her siblings. 28 T-Chart for Persuasive Writing Criteria Proof Step Two: Processing #1 First Draft “HOW HAS GLOBALIZTION AFFECTED YOUR IDENTITY” (Hand in-HighlightRevise) #2 Second Draft “HOW HAS GLOBALIZTION AFFECTED YOUR IDENTITY” (Walk aroundHighlight each other’s-Revise) Step Three: Transforming Final Draft “HOW HAS GLOBALIZTION AFFECTED YOUR IDENTITY” (Hand in) 29