FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Willow, Visible Minority

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

Definitions on ethnicity, race, culture and nationality are usually based on prejudice and colloquial info. Ethnicity: common descent from a group of ancestors customs, characteristics, language and experience and/or a sense of common identity. *ethnicity at its core is about our ancestors though it has recently been politicized. How ppl come to identify their ancestry more are hugely personal. Ethnicity is not an automatic membership (ppl may not want to be identified in an ethnic group) nor do people necessarily strongly relate to these definition of ethnicity. These definitions were constructed by the dominant groups to identify those individuals, and groups considered to be outside of society. *the problems around ethnicity is our presumptions based on looks, its become overuse; allows ppl to describe themselves. Increasingly, our ethnicity has become labels/ways to categorize people which may put them in powerless categories.