Factors the Contribute to the Globalization of Culture

Historical Reasons

• Historically, people went out in search of resources, riches and trading partners or to expand their own territories. With them they would bring their own goods, ideas, cultural practices and beliefs

Migration

• Migration occurred due to push/ pull factors such as displacement from native lands due to oppression or persecution or the search for freedom and opportunities.

Travel and Transportation

• Advancements in travel and transportation have become significant factors in the movement, exchange and diffusion of people, goods, and ideas

Immigrants Seeking Better Life

• Influx of immigrants seeking education or work in a country that is viewed globally as a symbol of freedom and wealth

Government Programs

• Government programs promote Canada as a new starting place for immigrants who can contribute the Canadian labour market and fill gaps that are not being met by Canadians

Education

• Another pull factor is the global migration of people to Canada is the opportunity for education

Humanitarian Missions

• Going the otherway (push factor) is humanitarian missions, the work Canadian NGOs

Outsourcing

• The outsourcing of paid work to emerging countries also play a significant role in cultural diffusion

Mass Media

• Mass Media played significant role in transmission of a global culture.

• Many isolated communities around the world now have access to information and cultural messages from the rest of the world.

• Canadians have instant access to events in the lives of people around the world.

• Mass media has made the world so much more connected

Enduring Understandings

1. There are consistent factors that lead to the globalization of culture.

2. Interaction between and among cultures results in a mutual cultural diffusion

3. The rate of cultural diffusion is steadily increasing