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Identity & Symbols  Symbols-concrete representations of ideas or concepts.  Identity-Sum of characteristics distinguishing one thing from another.  Both can represent people or groups.  National Pride  Generations  You

Sym & Id-Why Globalization  Can represent:  Heritage  Country  Group  Symbols can be globally known or have universal message  Identity can come from around the world  Influence or clothing

Imperialism  Old – Nations searched for “gold, glory and God”.  New – Pushed more by individuals and IR.  Needed raw materials for IR and markets for produced goods.  Merchants would get government to control for safer investment.  Citizens pushed this due to nationalism.  Colonial, protectorate and sphere of influence.

Imperialism-Why Globalization  Created exchange of goods, ideas – communication  New technologies-Food, products  Political ideas  Raw materials  Countries controlled other countries  White Man’s Burden  colonies

Industrial Revolution  Agriculture Revolution pushed IR.  Larger farms pushed smaller farmer off land and into city – became laborers in factories.  Moved from common lands and strips of land to enclosure movement.  Enclosure movement combined small strips of land into one big farm, increased productivity.

Industrial Revolution  Came from greater demand for goods.  Domestic system replaced by factories with the invention of machines to fill demand.  IR was economic change and slow.  Began in England due to lots of labour, wealthy merchants, good physical features and colonies that needed goods.

IR Cont  Labour conditions  Unsafe  Children and women  Led to unions to protect workers  Lots of workers  Living conditions slowly improved.  Led to merit based class system  Food production  Health care

IR – Why Globalization  Trade  Ideas  Technology  Increased imperialism  Created North/South split  Led to developed and undeveloped countries  Correlation to colonies and mother country?

Legacies  Africa – Civil war  Apartheid  N/S split  Aboriginal relations in Canada***  Treaties, land claims, etc, disease, depopulation, starvation, loss of culture (forced), Res. schools  French/English relations in Canada****  Economic disparity  Commodity crops

Legacies-Why Globalization  Global control  Military intervention  Human Rights  Economic disparity  Gov’t responding to historical mistakes  Trade  Borders  Berlin Conf  New France (Quebec)***

The Rest  Economy and sustainability  Global  Types (Capitalism, socialism, market, business cycle, economic freedom)  Disparity  Depression-global ties  Tariffs-global trade  Multi-National or Trans-National companies  Environment and sustainability  Technology  Business and the IR connection

The Rest  Food distribution  Aid  Youth issues  Women’s issues-equality, etc  Human Rights  Media  Communication  What Can I Do?