Before Canada became a European colony, it had many different groups of Natives that all lived in different parts of Canada and each group had a number of tribes and communities. To see how globalization affected Natives in Canada, one group to look at is the “Waskaganish” that were located in north western Quebec. Being in a heavily isolated environment, they learned that there were other tribes …show more content…
Improvements in communication technology made speaking to others across an ocean no longer a time consuming tasks that consists of a lot of waiting. Improvements in boats and shipping, and later airplanes, have resulted in travel and relocating to other countries possible as well. Having many different culture groups within the same country has resulted in an increase in violence between them. Globalization has brought the different cultures together, and it is possible that many people are reacting in a negative way towards the clash of cultures. Three different scholars: Manuel Castells, Amartya Sen, and Arjun Appadurai, have written on globalization on its effect on identities. They have all written on how having a deep identity based on religious fundamentalism, cultural nationalism, or territorial communes is becoming more common. Also, each of the identity bases have a tendency to exercise violence against other groups, or people with a different identity. Castell’s theories on resistance identity and project identity provide the most inclusive reason on how and why the identities that more prone to violence are formed. As people are exposed to more cultures, some may “building trenches of resistance and survival around principles different from, or opposed to those permeating the institutions of society” and their project identity is the “new identity that redefines a persons’ positions in society” with the goal of transforming the current social structure in mind. An example of this would be militia forces that are displeased with the current government, and they wish to have more control