Should globalization shape identity?
- acknowledge and appreciate the existence of multiple perspectives in a globalizing world
- appreciate why peoples in Canada and other locations strive to promote their cultures, languages and identities in a globalizing world
- appreciate how identities and cultures shape, and are shaped by, globalization
- examine challenges presented by globalization to identities and cultures of peoples in Canada (assimilation, marginalization, accommodation, integration, homogenization)
- analyze the efforts to promote languages and cultures in Canada in response to globalization (language and cultural legislation, revitalization of language and culture)
Should people in Canada respond to the legacies of historical globalization?
- recognize and appreciate historical and contemporary consequences of European contact, historical globalization and imperialism on Aboriginal societies
- recognize and appreciate various perspectives regarding the prevalence and impacts of Eurocentrism
- examine multiple perspectives on the political, economic and social impacts of imperialism in Canada
- examine the consequences of imperialism in Canada for Aboriginal Peoples (Indian Act, consequences of residential schools, social impact on Indigenous peoples)
- analyze various attempts to address the consequences of imperialism in Canada (Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, contemporary examples)