Chapter 8 Slides Flashcards
What is Ethnicity?
The cultural characteristics including language, food, religion, shared descent and cultural traditions and geographic location
What is Ethnic Origins?
The ethnicity of your ancestors
What is Ethnic Identity?
How you identify your own ethnicity
What is Race?
A socially constructed category used to classify people based on Physical traits
What are the Typical characteristics that race is sometimes based on?
Skin color
Hair texture
Facial features
What is the Process of Racialization?
The process by which racial categories are constructed as different and unequal in ways that have social, economic, and political consequences
Who are Visible Minorities?
People other than indigenous people who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color
Who is the most dominant group in society?
White men
What does Galabuzi argues?
That instead of using the concept visible minorities which supports essentialist understandings of race, we should use the term racialized people because this term recognizes the process of racialization and the structures of inequality that come with it
What does the a Canadian immigration and refugee protection act decide?
How Canada deals with immigration
What goals does the a Canadian immigration and refugee protection act identify?
Reuniting families
Contributing to Canada’s economic development
Protecting refugees
What are the 3 classes of immigrants?
Family class Economic class Refugees
What are family class immigrants?
Those sponsored by relatives already living in Canada
What are Economic class immigrants?
Those who are selected to enter Canada on the basis of some combination of education, occupational skills, etc
What are the two types of consequences of Ethnicity?
Familial and Economic
What are the characteristics of immigrated families, families from racialized groups, and indigenous families?
They tend to live in the same home, stay home longer, do communal work which is different from European families
What is Integration?
Identifying with both heritage cu,true and national culture
What is the diffuse pattern?
Associating with neither culture
How does the reduced income of indigenous people become equalized?
Education
What is the education of the immigrant population compared to Canadian born people?
Immigrants have higher levels of education but less income on average
What are the reasons immigrants have lower income?
Degree in proficiency in English and French
Real or perceived differences in education credentials
Cultural differences
Preference for Canadian work experience
Discrimination
What is Minority about?
Power, not the number of people
What is Assimiliation?
When minority groups are absorbed to some extent into the culture of the dominant group which can be voluntary or involuntary
What is Voluntary assimilation?
The changing of culture over time
How is assimilation different for racialized people?
For whites it was like they immigrate and they stop speaking their own language but for immigrants even if they can “blend in” it’s more difficult
What is Colonization?
The expansion of colonizers territory through taking ownership of indigenous populations lands as well as exploitation of these people
What is Ethnocide?
Practices of eradicating of a certain culture
What is Pluralism?
Where cultural groups are maintained and celebrated
What are the goals of Multiculturalism?
Retain and foster their identity
Overcome barriers to full participation in Canadian society
Promote creative exchanges among all Canadians
Assist immigrants in acquiring at least one of the official languages
What is Segregation?
The physical separation between two groups
What is Population transfer?
A process whereby minority groups are forcibly expelled or kicked out or are limited to specific locations ex. Acadians, reserves
What is Prejudice?
An attitude that is unrelated to reality and is generalized to members of a certain group
What are the 3 Components of Prejudice?
The cognitive component
The affective component
Behavioral component
What is the Cognitive component?
How we think
What is the Affective component?
How we feel
What is the Behavioral Component?
How we act
What is Institutional or Systemic Discrimination?
Discrimination policies that embedded
What is an Authoritarian Personality?
A personality type that values authority and obedience, is low in tolerance, and is high in stereotypic thinking. Also uses scape goats
What do Interactionist theories attribute prejudice to?
The process by which we come to understand different ethnic groups and judge them accordingly
What is the Dual Split market like?
Primary labor consists of higher paid, more secure jobs with upward mobility held by the dominant group
What is the Secondary Labour Market comprised of?
Jobs that are poorly paid and insecure and that provide little opportunity for advancement
What does CRT argue?
Racism is not aberrant (departing from the normal standard; one off) but rather is the typical way that society conducts its affairs and that it is built into the social fabric of institutions
