ANTH 1002 Lecture 12: Lecture 12: Globalization: Eating McDonalds in China and Fortune Cookies in Canada

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 1002
• Professor: Eric Henry

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Lecture 12: globalization: eating mcdonalds in china and fortune cookies in canada. Ethnicity is a category of humans whose boundaries are alleged to correspond to distinct cultural features such as language, religion, or dress. Rather than a deterministic category, historical processes that seek to define distinct social groups in the context of new political structures culturally construct ethnicity. For instance, china recognizes 56 national ethnicities, including the han majority. Each minority was determined on the basis of having similar cultural attributes: special clothing, language, and dances. It can be used as a resource for political recognition, economic cooperation or social mobility. In china, for instance, ethnic minorities have special university admissions, and can claim some political autonomy. A nation is a group of people believed to share the same history, culture, language, and even physical substance. Nations are often identified with the territories they live in; hence the term nation state, where a political unit and national identity coincide.