ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ethnocide, Social Inequality, Tibetan People
27 Feb 2018
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Ethnicity, being a term that many of my colleagues have already described, overlaps with race. As this lesson has highlighted, the idea of classifying people according to their race has led to the development of social inequality. Canada is a country that is very welcoming of immigrants and accommodates to a broad range of racial, religious, and cultural expressions. Many may argue that canadians accept anyone as their equal. In an ideal world, this would be the case. However, ethnic and racist discrimination is something that still exists, even in a multiethnic country such as canada. As anthropologists ember and ember (2009) have stated, race in humans is largely a culturally assigned category (jourdan, slide 15). We have seen many previous events in history where racial classifications have been used to justify horrible acts of oppression, exploitation or even genocide. (jourdan, slide 13).
