Chapter 8 Slides

Question 1

What is Ethnicity?

Answer 1

The cultural characteristics including language, food, religion, shared descent and cultural traditions and geographic location

Question 2

What is Ethnic Origins?

Answer 2

The ethnicity of your ancestors

Question 3

What is Ethnic Identity?

Answer 3

How you identify your own ethnicity

Question 4

What is Race?

Answer 4

A socially constructed category used to classify people based on Physical traits

Question 5

What are the Typical characteristics that race is sometimes based on?

Answer 5

Skin color
Hair texture
Facial features

Question 6

What is the Process of Racialization?

Answer 6

The process by which racial categories are constructed as different and unequal in ways that have social, economic, and political consequences

Question 7

Who are Visible Minorities?

Answer 7

People other than indigenous people who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in color

Question 8

Who is the most dominant group in society?

Answer 8

White men

Question 9

What does Galabuzi argues?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

What does the a Canadian immigration and refugee protection act decide?

Answer 10

How Canada deals with immigration

Question 11

What goals does the a Canadian immigration and refugee protection act identify?

Answer 11

Reuniting families
Contributing to Canada’s economic development
Protecting refugees

Question 12

What are the 3 classes of immigrants?

Answer 12

Family class
Economic class
Refugees

Question 13

What are family class immigrants?

Answer 13

Those sponsored by relatives already living in Canada

Question 14

What are Economic class immigrants?

Answer 14

Those who are selected to enter Canada on the basis of some combination of education, occupational skills, etc

Question 15

What are the two types of consequences of Ethnicity?

Answer 15

Familial and Economic

Question 16

What are the characteristics of immigrated families, families from racialized groups, and indigenous families?

Answer 16

They tend to live in the same home, stay home longer, do communal work which is different from European families

Question 17

What is Integration?

Answer 17

Identifying with both heritage cu,true and national culture

Question 18

What is the diffuse pattern?

Answer 18

Associating with neither culture

Question 19

How does the reduced income of indigenous people become equalized?

Answer 19

Education

Question 20

What is the education of the immigrant population compared to Canadian born people?

Answer 20

Immigrants have higher levels of education but less income on average

Question 21

What are the reasons immigrants have lower income?

Answer 21

Degree in proficiency in English and French
Real or perceived differences in education credentials
Cultural differences
Preference for Canadian work experience
Discrimination

Question 22

What is Minority about?

Answer 22

Power, not the number of people

Question 23

What is Assimiliation?

Answer 23

When minority groups are absorbed to some extent into the culture of the dominant group which can be voluntary or involuntary

Question 24

What is Voluntary assimilation?

Answer 24

The changing of culture over time

Question 25

How is assimilation different for racialized people?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What is Colonization?

Answer 26

The expansion of colonizers territory through taking ownership of indigenous populations lands as well as exploitation of these people

Question 27

What is Ethnocide?

Answer 27

Practices of eradicating of a certain culture

Question 28

What is Pluralism?

Answer 28

Where cultural groups are maintained and celebrated

Question 29

What are the goals of Multiculturalism?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What is Segregation?

Answer 30

The physical separation between two groups

Question 31

What is Population transfer?

Answer 31

A process whereby minority groups are forcibly expelled or kicked out or are limited to specific locations ex. Acadians, reserves

Question 32

What is Prejudice?

Answer 32

An attitude that is unrelated to reality and is generalized to members of a certain group

Question 33

What are the 3 Components of Prejudice?

Answer 33

The cognitive component
The affective component
Behavioral component

Question 34

What is the Cognitive component?

Answer 34

How we think

Question 35

What is the Affective component?

Answer 35

How we feel

Question 36

What is the Behavioral Component?

Answer 36

How we act

Question 37

What is Institutional or Systemic Discrimination?

Answer 37

Discrimination policies that embedded

Question 38

What is an Authoritarian Personality?

Answer 38

A personality type that values authority and obedience, is low in tolerance, and is high in stereotypic thinking. Also uses scape goats

Question 39

What do Interactionist theories attribute prejudice to?

Answer 39

The process by which we come to understand different ethnic groups and judge them accordingly

Question 40

What is the Dual Split market like?

Answer 40

Primary labor consists of higher paid, more secure jobs with upward mobility held by the dominant group

Question 41

What is the Secondary Labour Market comprised of?

Answer 41

Jobs that are poorly paid and insecure and that provide little opportunity for advancement

Question 42

What does CRT argue?

Answer 42

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