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
Racializedgroup
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
Femmesdupay
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-miscegenationlaws
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.