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| A question or situation that involves thoughtful, well-informed, well-meaning people in honest or sincere dialogue that may lead to different conclusions about how to respond. It can also be a dilemma that requires you to make a choice or decision that involves responsible action. |
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| Is an individual's opinion about a matter, based on his or her personal experience. |
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| Is a people's worldview; one that has developod from collective experience. |
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| The result of becoming more worldwide. |
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| Circumstances or surroundings. |
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| Who you are as a person; there are indivual identites and collective identities. You identity includes many things such as: your location, attire, religion/values, experiences, traditions, physical features, beliefs, role models, preferences, family, culture/heritage, collectives, and economic status. Your identity impacts how other see you and how you see and feel about yourself. |
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| Someone to whom others look at as an example to emulate. |
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| A group to which a person belongs to and indentifies with. |
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| Transnational Corportaion (TNC) |
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| A company that is based in one country while developing and manufacturing its products, or delivering its goods and services, in more than one country. Also called a multinational corporation. |
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| The gathering of ownership of newspapers and other media in the hands of a few large corporations. |
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| the use of electronic technology to intergrate media such as newspapers, books, TV, and the Internet. |
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| savings that are achieved by producing, using, and buying things in large quantities. |
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| Variety in plant and animal species/ |
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| The erasing of differences. When this term i sapplied to people, it often refers to the erasing of cultural differences so that people become more and more similar. |
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| The cultural changes that occur who two cultures accommodate, or adapt to, each other's worldviews. |
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| A process that occurs when people from different cultures come into contact and accept and create space for one another. The customs, traditions, technologies, beliefs and languages of both cultures may be affected. |
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| A process that occurs when the culture of a minority group is absorbed by another culture. The cultural idenity of the minority group disappears as its members take on the indentity of the other culture. |
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| The process of affirming and promoting people's individual and collective cultural identity. |
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| The gap that separates people who do- and do not- have acess to up-to-date digital technology. |
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| Ideas and information spread for the purpose of achieving a specific goal. |
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| A short form for "popular culture," which is the culture of people. This term often refers to current cultural trends that are spread by commercial mass media. |
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| The spread of culture, trends, customs, and practices around the world. |
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| The combining of elements of two or more different things to create something new. |
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| Laws passed by a government to prevents a group's cultural identity- including it's artist's, performers, songs, movies, and literature- from being overwhelmed by the media of a more dominant culture. |
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| Variety in cultures and identity. |
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