CMN 2181 Lecture Notes - Machismo, Acculturation, Materialism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 2181
• Professor: Andr� Champagne

Document Summary

Ability to communicate effectively with people belonging to culture groups different to our own: pluralistic: pluralistic society is one which a verity of cultural, religion, ethnic and linguistic groups co exist, visible minority: non white canadians and acknowledges the role of race in the social construction of identify, ethnic group: collectively within a larger society united by emotional and cultural ties, colonial: domination by european canadian institutions and policies began, marshall mcluhan: global village. Dominant culture: culture of power in a society sub culture: minority culture in a society cultural nationalism: to seek nation state status or autonomy or equality within a nation state. (also referred to ethnonationlism) nation states: political units to which the world is currently divided into to: culture genocide: suppress or annihilate another ethnic group through outright murder, ethnic cleansing: removal of an ethnic groups from an area claimed by another, postmodernism: recent changes in western culture.