PROTECTING AND PRESERVING

THE RIGHTS AND CULTURES OF

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES

Globalization and the after effects of colonization describes a process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and trade. It is being driven by a combination of economic, technological, sociocultural, political, and biological factors. The term can also refer to the transnational circulation of ideas, languages, or popular culture through acculturation. The world is losing its rich fabric of cultural diversity to acculturation.

Acculturation is the exchange of cultural features that results when groups of individuals having different cultures come into continuous first hand contact; the original cultural patterns of either or both groups may be altered, but the groups remain distinct. 

Thus, acculturation can be conceived to be the processes of cultural learning imposed upon minorities by the fact of being minorities. If enculturation is first-culture learning, then acculturation is second-culture learning. This has often been conceived to be a unidimensional, zero-sum cultural conflict in which the minority's culture is displaced by the dominant group's culture in a process of assimilation.

Indigenous People Issues

Global Issues And The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples

Cultural Survival

UN Forum On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples

The Rights Of Forest Peoples

The Hub Witness

Amazon Conservation Team