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| Is a question or situation that involves thoughtful, well-informed and well-meaning people in honest and sincere dialogue that may lead to different conclusions about how to respond |
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| Is an individual's opinion about a matter, based on his or her personal experience. |
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| A perspective refers to a people's worldview; one that has developed from a collective experience. |
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| The process that is making the world's citizens increasingly interdependent economically, socially, politically, environmentally, and technologically |
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| Factors and influences that shape one's individuality |
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| Are one's circumstances or surroundings |
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| Someone to whom others look as an example to emulate |
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| A group to which a person belongs and identifies with. |
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| Transnational Corporation (TNC) |
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| A company that is based in one country, while developing and manufacturing its products, or providing its goods and services, in more than one country |
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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 integrate 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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| The variety in plant and animal species |
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| The erasing of definition. When this is applied to people, it often refers to the erasing of cultural differences so that peoples become more and more similiar |
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| The cultural changes that occur when two cultures accomodate, or adapt to, eachother'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, technology, 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 identity of the minority group disappears as its members take on the identity 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 seperates people do- and do not- have access to up-to-date digital technology |
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| Ideas and information spread for the purpose of acheiving a specific goal |
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| Refers to popular 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 to prevent a group's cultural identity from being overwhelmed by the media of a more dominant culture |
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| Variety in cultures and identities |
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