Ch 8

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  • Ethnicity
    Cultural characteristics such as language, religion, taste in food, shared descent, cultural traditions, and shared geographic location.
  • Ethnic origin (Objective ethnicity)

    The ethnic characteristics of your ancestors
  • Ethnic Identity (subjective ethnicity)

    How you personally identify your ethnicity
  • Race
    A socially constructed category used to classify humankind according to physical characteristics such as skin colour, hair texture, and facial features
  • Racialization
    The process by which groups come to be designated as being of a particular "race" and on that basis subjected to different or unequal treatment
  • Visible minorities
    People, other than indigenous peoples, who are non-Caucasian in race or non-white in colour
  • Racialized group
    People of colour, who are disproportionately affected by the process of racialization
  • Family class immigrants
    Immigrants who are sponsored by close relatives living in Canada
  • Economic immigrants
    Immigrants selected on the basis of some combination of educational attainment, occupational skill, and ability to contribute to the Canadian economy
  • Refugees
    People who are forced to flee from persecution
  • Bicultural
    Participating in two distinct cultures simultaneously
  • Integration pattern
    Identifying with both one's heritage culture and ones new national culture
  • Ethnic pattern
    Identifying primarily with ones heritage culture
  • National pattern
    Identifying primarily with ones new national culture
  • Diffuse pattern
    Uncertainty about which culture one should or should not identify with
  • Dominant groups
    Groups that have institutionalized power and privilege in society
  • Minority groups
    Definable groups that are socially disadvantaged and face unequal treatment
  • Femmes du pay
    The Indigenous 'country wives' of Europeans traders
  • Ethnocide
    The eradication of a culture
  • Residential schools
    A boarding school funded by the Canadian government used to assimilate Indigenous children
  • Pluralism
    Cultural differences are valued in society
  • Segregation
    Minority groups are separated from the dominant group
  • Anti-miscegenation laws
    Laws the prohibit interracial marriages
  • Prejudice
    An attitude that is unrelated to reality and in generalized to all members of certain groups
  • Racism
    A specific for of prejudice based of physical apperance, such as skin colour
  • Discrimination
    Treating someone unfairly because of their group members
  • Hate crimes
    Criminal offences motivated by hate toward an identifiable group
  • White privilege
    The advantages and benefits in society that are based solely upon being white
  • Passing
    A situation where a racialized persons skin colour is light enough to be viewed by other as being white
  • Economic immigrant
    An immigrant type in which immigrants selected on the basis ofsome combination of educational attainment, occupational skills,entrepreneurship, business investment, and ability to contribute tothe Canadian economy
  • Scapegoat
    An individual or group that is wrongfully blamed for a personalor social problem
  • Assimilation
    Occurs when a minority group is absorbed into the culture ofthe dominant group.
  • Family class immigrant
    An immigrant type in which immigrants aresponsored by close relatives living in Canada.
  • Population transfer
    Forcibly expelling members of certain minoritygroups from a country or limiting them to a particular location.
  • Bicultural
    Participating in two distinct cultures simultaneously.
  • ethnic groups
    Refers to a group of people who can bedistinguished by themselves and others on the basis of cultural ornationality characteristics.