Race and Ethnic Groups

Question 1

race

Answer 1

a category based on biological traits that have historically been ranked as inferior or superior. Race is a socially constructed category

Question 2

Ethnicity

Answer 2

a shared cultural heritage

Question 3

radicalization

Answer 3

highlights the cultural process of assigning meaning to so called races

Question 4

Institutional Racism

Answer 4

refers to bias inherent in the operation of society’s institutions

Question 5

3 occurrences in residential schools

Answer 5

forced assimilation, abuse and destruction of aboriginal languages and heritages

Question 6

diasporas

Answer 6

significant patterns of settlements outside of an ethic groups ancestral homeland

Question 7

FRank Wu spoke of

Answer 7

The Perpetual Foreigner Syndrome - when asians are viewed entirely in terms of their ancestral country even when they were born in Canada

Question 8

The Polish Peasant in Europe and America method and conclusion

Answer 8

Thomas and Znaniecki examined hundred of letter between recent immigrants and their relatives back in Poland. Concluded old values weakened but new american ones not yet sufficiently influential

Question 9

Emory Bogradus developed

Answer 9

social distance - a scale to measure social distance which is the extent of segregation and acceptance between different ethic groups