Global Sneaker Review

The degree of connection or separation between people, places and things; the directness of routes linking pairs of places

• connectivity

• culture

• cultural awareness

• cultural heritage

The customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of racial, religious or social groups

• connectivity

• culture

• cultural awareness

• cultural heritage

Someone's cultural awareness is their understanding of the differences between themselves and people from other countries or other backgrounds, especially differences in attitudes and values.

• connectivity

• culture

• cultural awareness

• cultural heritage

An expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values.

• connectivity

• culture

• cultural awareness

• cultural heritage

A condition in which countries have strong economic ties and depend on each other for resources, technology, trade and investment

• connectivity

• culture

• cultural awareness

• cultural heritage

• economic interdependence

The flow of goods and services across national borders, with little or no government control

• free trade

• free trade zone

• globalization

• intangible cultural heritage

• maquiladora

An area of a country where trade restrictions do not apply

• free trade

• free trade zone

• globalization

• intangible cultural heritage

• maquiladora

The development of a global, or worldwide, society in which people, money, information, and goods flow fairly freely across national borders

• free trade

• free trade zone

• globalization

• intangible cultural heritage

• maquiladora

Includes traditions or living expressions inherited from our ancestors and passed on to our descendants, such as oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts.

• free trade

• free trade zone

• globalization

• intangible cultural heritage

• maquiladora

A manufacturing plant owned by a foreign country

• free trade

• free trade zone

• globalization

• intangible cultural heritage

• maquiladora