FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Microsoft Powerpoint, Exogamy, Acculturation
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Understanding race, ethnicity and family life in canada. Common descent from a group of ancestors ancestry ex. grandparents, great grandparents, etc. Can vary between groups, between generations within the same group, between stages of life, and within individuals over time - not based on country of origin. People (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ted or dis(cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)ted fro(cid:373) o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s eth(cid:374)i(cid:272)ity. Not a way to identify a group of people geographically. Problem: labels and presumptions imposed on others based on generally physical characteristics. Ethnicity is not an automatic membership people choose to identify or not. 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 (cid:272)o(cid:374)sidered to (cid:271)e (cid:862)outside(cid:863) of so(cid:272)iety definitions are imposed. Mechanisms to marginalize or group or racialize groups of people. Anyone who does not fall in this category, i. e. racialized groups, (cid:862)other(cid:863)
