Ethnic Diversity Flashcards
Name the 4 factors that help to define a person’s ethnic identity
- Race
- Nationality
- Language
- Religion
Define ethnic group
A category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as language, race or nation.
What do these factors do?
Unite similar individuals and exclude those who don’t possess these unifying traits.
How does race classify people?
According to the colour of their skin, visible facial features or hair type
4 major world races:
- Caucasian
- Mongoloid
- Negroid
- Australoid
What is nationality?
A person’s country of origin or ancestral home
How is religion often regarded?
An outward expression of ethnicity
What does religion provide?
A code of behaviour that makes its followers instantly recognisable
What factors influence ethnic identity?
PERCEIVED ETHNIC IDENTITY;
- Age
- Gender
- Residential Concentration
- Role
What does role refer to?
A person’s occupation or role in society
What is residential concentration?
Ethnic minorities often live in clusters with people of similar ethnicity
Examples of Role
- India Caste System
- Belfast Falls Road + Shankill Road
- Black Americans
Examples of Residential Concentration
- Roma population in Holylands
- Bronx; African American population
- Leicester; Asian migrants in Highfields
- Amish in Pennsylvania + Ohio
- Egypt; Coptic Christians living around place of worship
What is the impact of Age?
In some societies older people are given much respect, and many different tribal societies have village or local elders who rule and make decisions for the family group
Examples of Age
- Greece; old age is honoured and celebrated
- Native American elders known for being wise and passing down knowledge
- Korea; younger members of population have duty to care for parents as they age
- China; universities for elderly booming
What is the impact of Gender?
Women remain an under privileged group in many societies
Examples of Language
- NI; members of Sinn Fein deliver speeches in Stormont Assembly in Irish
- Canada; in Quebec they speak French
- Uighur minority in China have different language that is related to Turkish
Examples of Nationality
- NI; British or Irish?
- Rory McIlroy; in Olympics playing for UK or Ireland
Examples of Religion
- GAA
- the Amish in USA
- Uighur minority in China are Muslim
- Muslim religion associated with mosques + Muslim clothing
- Egypt; Coptic Christian minority make up 10% of population whilst 90% are Sunni Muslims
Examples of Gender
- Saudi Arabia; women cannot vote & couldn’t drive until 2018
- Islamic countries; women are restricted - unable to attend school + adhere to strict dress code
- Western society; prejudice in workplace
- Honour killings
- Amish women have traditional role
- Pakistani women
What is a plural society?
One in which there is more than one ethnic group
Plural societies are commonly comprised of 4 groups:
- Indigenous population
- Descendants of European colonists/migrants
- Non-indigenous population brought in by Europeans as cheap labour/slaves
- People of mixed race through inter-marriage
Name the 3 processes that create ethnic diversity
- Colonisation
- Annexation
- International migration
What is colonisation?
Setting up settlements in a new colony
Examples of colonisation
- Dutch + British in South Africa
- Portugese in Brazil
- British brought Indians to Kenya to build railway
What is annexation?
Another political process that means to take possession of a territory beyond the original boundaries of a state