SOCI 1121 Lecture 18: Race and ethnicity & Multiculturalism 1
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In the same way sex , vs gender , is biological. Biological transmitted traits are given social significance. We use them to asses where people go on the hierarchy. Made up by skin colour, hair colour and texture, eye shape. What colour our skin is, the shape of our eyes, the colour of our hair has nothing to do with how intelligent we are or how we should be treated. We have allowed it to justify colonisation, genocide, slavery. Seen mostly in the states, but canada is not exempt from racism. The only people who would deny that are white people. A person that has beliefs about a group that are wrong and are inflexible. Aboriginal people are portrayed poorly in media, which. Where we attribute positive prejudices just like negative. We pick these things up from other people. Social disadvantages are thought to stem from personal deficiency.
