SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - White Privilege, Color Blindness, Chinese Head Tax In Canada
19 Feb 2013
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When asking where are you from it is already a preconceived racist opinion. Foods, traditional dress, accent, religion and how it is expressed, music, sports, ceremonies, rituals, dance. When we talk about culture we often don"t talk about thoughts and history and behaviour and family and the things that make up who we are, instead we look at the surface. When we have multicultural events, we stick to the surface, we don"t interact and talk and think about what makes a specific culture. When we talk about multiculturalism we are not really talking and truly understanding and integrating the different ways of being in the world. This becomes evident when you talk to people who are from marginalized culture groups: often people have a public and private identity (see below) By developing and using what we see as the norm. Normal is often used to described those who have privilege and power.
