Affirming Identity, Language, and Culture Chapter 4 To what extent can people respond to globalizing forces that affect identity?

This chapter deals with the following questions IQ # 1 HOW DO PEOPLE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THEIR LANGUAGE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? IQ #2 HOW DO PEOPLE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THEIR CULTURE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? IQ # 3 HOW DO GOVERNMENTS AFFIRM AND PROMOTE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? IQ 4 HOW DO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AFFIRM AND PROMOTE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD?

Key Terms RYWK Cultural content laws Cultural diversity Ladakh Himalayan CRCT UNESCO AFN

To some people, language is identity. IQ # 1 HOW DO PEOPLE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THEIR LANGUAGE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? To some people, language is identity. Language is so important to cultural identity that peoples, governments and organization around the world use many strategies to affirm and promote languages. VOICES p 90 Our own mother tongues are things in which we participate totally. They change our perception. So that if we spoke Chinese we would have a different sense of hearing, smell and touch. - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian media expert who first used the term “global village”

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Differing Views p. 90 add to chart? Some advocates of globalization believe . . . Other people believe . . .

Some advocates of globalization believe that increased communication and interdependence will bring greater understanding among the peoples of the world. They say that if everyone speaks a common language, it could reduce the differences among peoples. Others believe that, while globalization provides opportunities, it also presents challenges. They believe that globalization threatens cultural diversity and this is evident in the number of endangered and lost languages. They believe that the challenge in a globalizing world is to find ways to affirm and promote all languages and cultures.

Research Topic 1 Endangered Languages Why do languages disappear? How has the dominance of English affected people? How does Mitali Perkins’ story relate to this issue? What’s the “magic carpet”? HOW DO PEOPLE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THEIR LANGUAGE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD?

IQ # 2 HOW DO PEOPLE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THEIR CULTURE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? VOICES p 96 One culture after another, we are all being fed into an industrial-strength blender, and we all come out changed. What would a global culture mean? It would mean that the world goes on speaking 50 major languages and hundreds of little ones, but increasingly it talks about the same things from the same perspectives in all of them. - Gwynne Dyer, columnist and filmmaker, in Millennium, a series produced for CBC Radio

HOW DO PEOPLE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THEIR CULTURE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? First Nations University of Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan

Research Topic 2 Cultural Revitalization Who are the Ladakh people? How have the Ladakh been affected by globalization? How are they responding to globalization? HOW DO PEOPLE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THEIR CULTURE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD?

Research Topic 3 Akaitapiiwa: Ancestors exhibit Who are the Kainai people? How have they been challenged by globalization? How are they working to promote their culture? HOW DO PEOPLE AFFIRM AND PROMOTE THEIR CULTURE IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD?

Trivia – When is Multi-cultural Day in Canada? IQ # 3 HOW DO GOVERNMENTS AFFIRM AND PROMOTE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? In 1971, Canada became the first country in the world to adopt multiculturalism as official government policy. This policy encourages Canada’s many cultural groups to preserve, enhance and share their heritage. Trivia – When is Multi-cultural Day in Canada?

Michaelle Jean, became governor general of Canada in 2006. Her coat of arms includes words and symbols from Africa, Haiti, and Canada, the cultures that helped shape her identity. “Today’s Canada contains the world. Rich in its demographic and cultural diversity, Canada is a model of openness and harmony in the concert of nations. Bringing together so many cultures and perspectives certainly enriches us all, but it is also a challenge that all of humanity must now face in this age of globalization…Together, let us build on the strengths of our diversity and on dialogue rather than become mired in the clash of cultures.”

IQ # 3 HOW DO GOVERNMENTS AFFIRM AND PROMOTE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? Research Topic 4 Government Roles in Promoting Language & Culture What programs/actions have governments taken to promote language and culture? How do governments control content in an effort to promote cultures and languages? What is the role of the CRTC?

PROFILE - Research Topic 5 p. 103 Telling His People’s Stories – Bobby Kenuajuak How has Kenuajuak worked to affirm and promote his language and culture?

IQ 4 HOW DO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AFFIRM AND PROMOTE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN A GLOBALIZING WORLD? Research Topic 6 & 7 International Organizations Promoting Cultures & Languages What is UNESCO? How does UNESCO promote cultural diversity? What is La Francophonie organization? How does La Francophonie affirm and promote language and culture in a globalizing world?

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Research Topic 8 The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples How have First Nations peoples worked to promote their languages and cultures in a globalizing world? What is the AFN?

THINK…PARTICIPATE…RESEARCH…COMMUNICATE…THINK Agree or Disagree p. 108 – The globalization of products and brand names threatens Indigenous and local cultures, language, and identities. Danger or Gain? POV – p. 107 Which issue matters most to you/us? “The Thread” by Tom Wayman Pg 109 Sum it up – main theme? Golden Line?

The Thread Moments after each of us is born By Tom Wayman Moments after each of us is born The umbilical cord is cut. But other fibres that tie us to our parents commence at once to stretch into bands that feed us and join us to the rest of the room and beyond. We remain enmeshed our entire lives, pulling the net this direction and that as we travel and age, the web that hold us flexible enough to let some of us journey to the moon. Yet the anchor of each of the million cords that wrap me, that connect me to justice and injustice, remains that closely-wound, pulsing ball of global string. Even these words were handed to me containing the grammars and syntaxes others built and tore down and constructed again, new verbs forming, and nouns appearing in my mouth or from under my pen: airborne seeds from elsewhere that find root in my days - some destructive, some helpful, each word trailing a resilient tendril, another thread that weaves me and all I do into the warp of the world.