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Volcabulary Flashcards

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Meaning of…

Immigrant

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Someone who comes to a new country hoping to live permanently

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Refugees

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People who must leave there home because of war, famine, natural disaster

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Settler

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A person who comes to settle or live in a new place

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What are s,one immigration pull factors?

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More land
Better jobs
Freedom
Religion

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What are some immigration push factors?

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War
Political unrest
Over crowded
No jobs

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Culture

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How people live there lives including:
Food
Clothes
Shelter

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Ethno-cultural group

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A group of people who share a common culture

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Discrimination

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Treating someone less equal or not giving them the same benefits others have

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Racism

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A type of discrimination, treating someone bad because of there colour or race

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Stereotype

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An idea that all people from a certain act are the same

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Assimilate

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Change so that you fit better into a new place ore group (adopting new customs ex.clothes)

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Multicultural

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Containing multi cultures

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Multiculturalism

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The idea that many cultures can be together (ex. Canada) giving everyone respect from different cultures

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Block settlement

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Large piece of land set aside for an ethnic community (aboriginals etc.)

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Chain migration

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People learning of a new country from people

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War brides

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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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Meaning of…

Market gardens

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Large gardens where farmers grow food for markets

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Meaning of…

Domestic

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Related to the home

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Meaning of…

Domestic servant

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A person (usually women) who works in a home (ex. Cook, maid, nanny)

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Meaning of…

Homestead

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A farm lot on the prairies (usually 160 acres)

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Meaning of…

Head tax

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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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Meaning of…

Internment camps

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Prisons or work camps civilians might be sent durning war

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Meaning of…

Metis

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When a French and an aboriginal man and women would get married and have kids

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Meaning of…

Archives

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A special type of museum that collects documents, letters, photographs and maps from the past

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Meaning of…

Emigrate

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To leave ones country to live somewhere else

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