Volcabulary Flashcards
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Immigrant
Someone who comes to a new country hoping to live permanently
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Refugees
People who must leave there home because of war, famine, natural disaster
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Settler
A person who comes to settle or live in a new place
What are s,one immigration pull factors?
More land
Better jobs
Freedom
Religion
What are some immigration push factors?
War
Political unrest
Over crowded
No jobs
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Culture
How people live there lives including:
Food
Clothes
Shelter
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Ethno-cultural group
A group of people who share a common culture
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Discrimination
Treating someone less equal or not giving them the same benefits others have
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Racism
A type of discrimination, treating someone bad because of there colour or race
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Stereotype
An idea that all people from a certain act are the same
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Assimilate
Change so that you fit better into a new place ore group (adopting new customs ex.clothes)
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Multicultural
Containing multi cultures
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Multiculturalism
The idea that many cultures can be together (ex. Canada) giving everyone respect from different cultures
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Block settlement
Large piece of land set aside for an ethnic community (aboriginals etc.)
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Chain migration
People learning of a new country from people
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War brides
A group of women who came to Canada after world war 2 because they married the Canadian soldiers during the war
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Market gardens
Large gardens where farmers grow food for markets
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Domestic
Related to the home
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Domestic servant
A person (usually women) who works in a home (ex. Cook, maid, nanny)
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Homestead
A farm lot on the prairies (usually 160 acres)
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Head tax
A tax the Chinese had to pay when the came to Canada
In 1885 it was $5
1903 it was $500
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Internment camps
Prisons or work camps civilians might be sent durning war
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Metis
When a French and an aboriginal man and women would get married and have kids
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Archives
A special type of museum that collects documents, letters, photographs and maps from the past
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Emigrate
To leave ones country to live somewhere else
