Legacies of Historical Globalization
Key Question: What are some legacies of Historical Globalization?
Learning Goal: Identify ethnocentrism in your everyday lives
Key Terms: legacy, ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism, depopulation, deindustrialization, gross domestic product
Learning Goal: Identify ethnocentrism in your everyday lives
Key Terms: legacy, ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism, depopulation, deindustrialization, gross domestic product
What is a Legacy?
A legacy is something that has been passed on by those who lived in the past. Legacies can include political structures, such as parliamentary democracy; buildings and monuments, such as houses of worship and statues or plaques; and oral histories and stories, as well as tangible artifacts. They may also include cultural traditions and celebrations.
A legacy is something that has been passed on by those who lived in the past. Legacies can include political structures, such as parliamentary democracy; buildings and monuments, such as houses of worship and statues or plaques; and oral histories and stories, as well as tangible artifacts. They may also include cultural traditions and celebrations.
- Think of the legacy Wayne Gretzky left to hockey when he retired as a player
- What legacy did Michael Jackson leave to pop music?
- Mother Teresa's legacy was the establishment of the "Missionaries of Charity" organization for the poor, orphaned, and sick in over one hundred countries
- One of John A. Macdonald's legacies was the creation of the nation "Canada" from sea to sea to sea
The Canadian Coat of Arms
- Describe the various symbols used
- Why do you think the Canadian government chose to include these symbols in the coat of arms
Group Questions
- What feelings might these symbols have inspired in Britain?
- Why do you think the lion symbol is so prominent on the Canadian coat of arms? What might this reveal about Canadian attitudes in 1921, when the coat of arms was created?
- Which other peoples are represented by the symbols on Canada's coat of arms?
- What feeling might these symbols have inspired among Indigenous - and non-Indigenous - people in British colonies around the world?
- What attitudes on the part of Britain do you think these symbols imply?
- How might these attitudes have contributed to the long-term effects of imperialism and historical globalization?
Ethnocentrism vs. Eurocentrism
Were the Aboriginal economic values compatible with the European economic values of the time?
Are the values at all reconcilable?
Could European colonizers have understood the aboriginal idea of balance?
Are the values at all reconcilable?
Could European colonizers have understood the aboriginal idea of balance?
Building Empires
What event in 1914 occurred to interfere with empire building?
How might the legacies of historical globalization be different today if the empire-building trend had continued?
How does Ethnocentrism/Eurocentrism relate to the data shown in the table above?
How might the legacies of historical globalization be different today if the empire-building trend had continued?
How does Ethnocentrism/Eurocentrism relate to the data shown in the table above?
Africa
- In 1884, the United States, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and Sweden-Norway met in Berlin, Germany to divide up the continent of Africa
- They did this to avoid conflicts with each other
- No one consulted the Indigenous people whose lands and resources were taken over
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