Ch 8

• 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.