Chapter 6: Race, Ethnicity, And Indigenous People Flashcards
Canada is one of the few countries to embrace _________. Although it is has not ended _____ based on _____ and ______ differences
Multiculturalism
Inequality
Racial and ethnic
Race
Social distinction based on perceived physical or biological characteristics
Ethnicity
Difference between people rooted in culture, language, religion, and other similar differences
Essentialism
Tendency of some to see the ideas of race and ethnicity as permanent, natural human categories
Race and ethnicity are both ____________ and are created in ___________
Social constructions
Human societies
The role of biology in determining race and ethnicity is undetermined by the fact that all humanity is 99.9% genetically similar
Sad
Symbolic ethnicity
White people can either choose to embrace an ethnic label or disregard them entirely
When we do embrace an ethnic label, we often do it to______________
Feel pride
Due to racism, ___________ have no control over the ethnic labels that others assign to them
Visible minorities
Social construction
Highlights the way that social categories we consider natural and unchanging, such as race and ethnicity, are socially created
Thomas principle
The idea that social constructions have real consequences
Racism
Organized system operating at every level of society held together by a sophisticated idealogy based on racial supremacy
Islamphobia
Example of racism construction
Intense fear or hatred of Islam and Muslim’s
Types of indigenous people in Canada
First Nations, Inuit, Métis
First Nations
Original residents of Canada now organized as nations represented by bands with their own institutions, government, and cultural practices
The royal proclamation of 1763
Recognized First Nations as nations with sovereignty over their own people
Indian act of 1876
Gave the Canadian power the power to define who was Indian and regulate how First Nations lives
Residential schools
Government funded public schools forced to assimilate children
Date of public schools closing
1996
Invisible backpack
Unearned assets cashed in on a daily basis
White people having extra privileges
Prejudice
Negative attitude towards someone based solely on their membership in a group
Discrimination
Negative or positive treatment of someone as a result of their belonging in a specific group
People with a ______ personality are more likely to develop _______
Authoritarian
Prejudice
Worlds values survey
Measures prejudice internationally
Contact theory
Increasing contact between antagonistic groups will lead to recognition of similarities
Immigration
Long distance migration of humans for permanent settlement
Canada’s 3 broad catagories of immigration
Economic
Family class
Refugee
Multiculturalism
Society in which individuals are encouraged to display and celebrate their ethnicity and difference
