GLOBALIZATION Flashcards
(40 cards)
refers to the “processes through which local and regional ideas, products, and practices are transformed into worldwide ideas, products, and practices
GLOBALIZATION
has helped erased the notion of territorial boundaries between countries, gradually eroding the idea of the term nation
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
Smoke signals, habemus papam, pigeon post
THE VISUAL ERA
printing press
Johannes Gutenburg (1950)
telegraph (1838)
THE WIRED ERA
telephone
Alexander Graham Bell (1876)
first videophone
Georg Oskar Schubert (1930)
xerox fax machine
Alexander Bain (1964)
first handheld mobile phone
Motorola (1973)
first mobile (cellular) phone network
1981
persons respectful of and engaged with people from distinctly
different cultures.
MULTICULTURIST
the recognition and valuing of the difference, encompassing such
factors as age, gender, race, ethnicity, ability, religion, education,
marital status, sexual orientation and income.
DIVERSITY
lacking understanding of cultural difference
CULTURALLY CONFUSED
interaction with individuals from different cultures
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
interactants are of different races
INTERRACIAL COMMUNICATION
communicating parties
have different ethnic origins
INTERETHNIC COMMUNICATION
communication between persons
representing political structures or nations
International communication
Knowledge, beliefs, values, customs, behaviors, and artifacts
that are acquired, shared, and used by its members within a
culture as a whole
CULTURES
Composed of members of the same general culture who
differ/similarities in some ethnic or sociological way from the
parent culture
CO-CULTURES
Group members feel like outsiders
MARGINALIZED
GROUP
Being perceived as the majority of the
population and having a significant presence in
institutions relating to communication,
education, artistic expression, law, government
and business
DOMINANT
CULTURE
STRATEGIES OF CO-CULTURE TO JOIN THE DOMINANT CULTURE
assimilation, accomodation, separation,
is the lens through which we see the world
CULTURE
see one’s own culture as superior to all
ETHNOCENTRISM