Mod 5 Flashcards
differences in gender, age groups, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, language preference, religion, political views, and special needs as well as race and ethnicity.2
Diversity
subcultural group within a multicultural society
Ethnicity
Membership in an ethnic group is usually based on
common national or tribal heritage
Hutchinson and Smith
definition of an ethnic group includes six main features including:
- A common proper name, to identify and express the “essence” of the community
- A myth of common ancestry that includes the idea of common origin in time and place and that gives an ethnie a sense of fictive kinship
- Shared historical memories, or better, shared memories of a common past or pasts, including heroes, events, and their commemoration
- One or more elements of common culture, which need not be specified but normally include religion, customs, and language
- A link with a homeland, not necessarily its physical occupation by the ethnie, only its symbolic attachment to the ancestral land, as with diaspora peoples
- A sense of solidarity on the part of at least some sections of the ethnie’s population
primary sense of belonging to an ethnic group.
ethnicity
categorization of parts of a population based on physical appearance due to particular historical social and political forces
Race
cultural modification of an individual or group by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture
Acculturation
person who flees one area or country to seek shelter or protection from danger
Refugee
differences in the incidence, prevalence and mortality and burden of diseases and other adverse health conditions among specific population groups
Health disparities
group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as organized community on communally bounded and defined territory, and who have, under claims of ownership
Indigenous Cultural Communities/Indigenous People
mandates state recognition, protection, promotion, and fulfillment of the rights of Indigenous Peoples
Philippine Constitution
Estimate of Indigenous Peoples (IPs) belonging to 110 ethno-linguistic groups;
14- 17 million
Northern Luzon (Cordillera Administrative Region, 33%) and Mindanao (61%),
Ten upland tribal groups on Luzon
Ifugao, Bontoc, Kankana-ey, Ibaloi, Kalinga, Tinguian, Isneg, Gaddang, Ilongot and Negrito.
main forms of work (igorot community)
wet-rice farmers (Ifugaos, Bontocs and Kankana-ey)
wet-rice and dry-rice growing techniques (Kalinga and Tinguian)
shifting cultivation (Isneg, Ilongot and Gaddang).
healing ritual done because of the belief that the disease is caused by a malevolent spirit
ABAT” and “SENGA”
Involves a traditional priest or a medium, butchering of animals (chicken or piglet), gongs and
other materials in the ritual
ABAT and SENGA
THREATS TO COMMUNITY HEALTH AMONG IGOROT PEOPLE
Land-grabbing
Discrimination and inequalities
Destructive socio-economic projects such as megadams, large-scale mines and megatourism
Commercialization of indigenous culture
Institutionalized discrimination
Violation and non-recognition of indigenous socio-political systems and processes
Government neglect of basic social services to indigenous people
A group of people termed in Negrito during the Spanish colonial rule. These minorities emerged from early waves of Malay or Proto-Malay migrants
AETA/AYTA/AGTA COMMUNITY
mainly skilled in hunting, gathering and jungle survival.
nomadic, monotheistic, peace and non-violent
resisted colonization
AETA/AYTA/AGTA COMMUNITY
Language of aeta community
sambal
they believe that any type of exploitation or wasting of resources would be offensive to the spirits.
AETA/AYTA/AGTA COMMUNITY
THREATS TO COMMUNITY HEALTH OF THE AETA PEOPLE
Dispossession, poverty and political discrimination through decades of protracted land rights processes
Little recognition and support from the local government
Marginalization and displacement due to land grabbers, illegal logging, mining and slash-burn
farming
Racial discrimination
bisayan term meaning “indigenous”, “native” or “born of the earth”.
Lumad
Lumad tribal groupings include
Ata, Bagobo, Mamanwa, Mandaya, Manobo, Subanon and Tiruray.