HLTHAGE 1BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: South Asia
15 Jan 2016
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What a person relates to (ie. one parent from asia, one parent that is a canadian. Jew, and someone relates more with judiasm so that is their ethnicity) Material culture tangible things specific to our area. Minority groups groups that are not part of the majority. Ie. in canada majority is caucasian, minority are asians, indians, etc. Visible minorities minorities you can see, ie. skin tone. In canada, aboriginal peoples are classified as a visible minority. The kind of disadvantage you have if you happen to be (for instance) and elderly aboriginal woman who is living in poverty multiple disadvantage. Looks at difference between and within a minority group, cultural subgroups, and age cohorts among minority groups. Immigrants represent a considerably large group among seniors. 20% of the candian overall population were immigrants, the corresponding figure among seniors was 30%. Nearly _____ of immigrant seniors arrived in canada before 1976.
