GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Italian Canadians, Ethnic Group, The Roots
12 Feb 2014
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Social/cultural geography iv: the geographies of race & ethnicity. Ethnicity: our affiliation with an ethnic group where racial, cultural, religious, language or national characteristics distinguish itself from the rest of the world. Ethnic groups: a group where they perceive themselves as different because of a common ancestry/shared culture. European, african or smaller (irish acadian) a lot is linked to our ancestry. Ethnicity (& ethnic groups) is inherently spatial: we can see the spatial manifestation of ethnicity (and ethnic groups) in many ways. It is expressed via: cultural landscape, foods, clothes, sundays etc, built landscape, mosques, italian restaurants etc. The identity we put much pride towards our ethnicity it can have positive or negative repercussions. Ethnicity, religion and language: mechanism through which culture is expressed. Pride vs. discrimination & conflict: globalization: erasing local diversity through a universal language or religion, but ethnicity is hard to lose. Ethnicity is immutable, we are still preserving the diversity of ethnicity.
