Topic 1-3 Flashcards
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Imperialism
A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force
Colonialism
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
capitalism
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
Industrialization
The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
Industrial revolution
The Industrial Revolution was a shift from an agrarian economy to a manufacturing economy where products were no longer made solely by hand but by machines. This led to increased production and efficiency, lower prices, more goods, improved wages, and migration from rural areas to urban areas.
Agrarian economy
An agrarian economy is an economy where a majority portion of the income of individuals is made from agriculture
Legacy
Something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor or from the past
Ethnocentrism
A term applied to the cultural or ethnic bias—whether conscious or unconscious—in which an individual views the world from the perspective of his or her own group, establishing the in-group as archetypal and rating all other groups with reference to this ideal
Assimilation
Assimilation, in anthropology and sociology, the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society.
Perspective vs Point of view
A perspective can be defined as a people’s world view that is developed from its collective experience. This differs from a point of view which is an individual’s opinion about a matter based on personal experience.
Empire
An extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.
Hudson’s Bay Company
The Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), chartered 2 May 1670, is the oldest incorporated joint-stock merchandising company in the English-speaking world. HBC was a fur trading business for most of its history, a past that is entwined with the colonization of British North America and the development of Canada.
New France
New France. a French colony in North America, with a capital in Quebec, founded in 1608. Rupert’s Land. a region in the Canadian north that was a colony of Britain and administered by the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Eurocentric
focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world; implicitly regarding European culture as preeminent.
Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
The white man’s burden
“The White Man’s Burden” is a poem by the British Victorian poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling. While he originally wrote the poem to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Kipling revised it in 1899 to exhort the American people to conquer and rule the Philippines. Conquest in the poem is not portrayed as a way for the white race to gain individual or national wealth or power. Instead, the speaker defines white imperialism and colonialism in moral terms, as a “burden” that the white race must take up in order to help the non-white races develop civilization. Because of the poem’s influential moral argument for American imperialism, it played a key role in the congressional debates about whether America should annex the Philippine Islands after the Spanish-American War. The phrase “white man’s burden” remains notorious as a racist justification for Western conquest.
Canada’s 1996 Royal Commission on the Aboriginal Peoples
The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) issued its final report in November 1996. The five-volume, 4,000-page report covered a vast range of issues; its 440 recommendations called for sweeping changes to the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and governments in Canada.
Indigenous self-government
Indigenous or Aboriginal self-government refers to proposals to give governments representing the Indigenous peoples in Canada greater powers of government.
Indian Act
The Indian Act is a Canadian act of Parliament that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves. The Indian Act was created to assimilate Indigenous peoples into mainstream society and contained policies intended to terminate the cultural, social, economic, and political distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples.
Residential Schools
In Canada, the Indian residential school system was a network of boarding schools for Indigenous peoples which amounted to cultural genocide. The network was funded by the Canadian government’s Department of Indian Affairs and administered by Christian churches.
Civil Strife
violent activity such as rioting or fighting in public places, especially involving many people.
Political globalization
The formation of political relationships between countries
Standard of living
A common measure of the quantity and quality of goods and services to which people have access.
Quality of life
The condition in people’s lives.
