Social Globalization and YOU

Social Globalization and YOU

This chapter focuses on the impact of globalization on your cultural and social lives.

Textbook pages 13-18

Open Ended

How does the media influence your language, attitude or ideas? Try to give an example e.g. As a child, I watched a lot of Law & Order, and I started incorporating a lot of legal terms that I learned from the show in my speech as a child.

What impact does this have on my sense of Canadian identity?

Get into small groups and record your answers to the following questions

• What TV programs do you watch regularly?
• Which of these are clearly identifiable as Canadian in production or content (about Canada, or filmed in Canada)
• Which of these are clearly identifiable as American?
• Which come from places outside of the United States AND Canada?

Poll

Once you have assessed all of the media you consume...do you watch....

• Mostly Canadian content

• Mostly American content

• Mostly content not from the US or Canada

Poll

In terms of quality I find that Canadian content is...

• Better than American content

• Just as good as American content

• Not as good as American content

Open Ended

Answer ONE of the following prompts as detailed and thoughtfully as you can

I prefer watching Canadian television programs because...

I dislike watching Canadian television programs because...

Poll

Do you feel less Canadian because you watch American TV?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Do you think that foreign TV, especially American TV, makes you look at the world differently?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Can cultural globalization through the television be beneficial to you? e.g. reveal useful and different perspectives on political and social issues?

• Yes

• No

Poll

Can global technologies like TV make you feel less Canadian and be less clear about your identity as Canadian citizens?

• Yes

• No

Personal Reflection Journal

In your personal reflection journal, write a few sentences to a paragraph on the impact of the media you consume and its impact on your identity as a Canadian.

Then read textbook pages 13-18

Open Ended

How did this 'rant' make you feel? Does content like this help you feel more 'Canadian''?

Personal Reflection Journal

In your personal reflection journal, write a paragraph about...

• How 'I am Canadian!" made you feel
• To what extent you do or don't identify with the rant