POLI 201 Lecture Notes - Affirmative Action, Policy Debate, Visible Minority

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 201
• Professor: Jay Makarenko

Document Summary

Nov 21/2013: some cultural groups, however, also seek self-determination in order to protect/promote their cultural practices and groups. Concept of self-determination: ability for a group to internally self-determine their own social, economic, and political development, requires special institutional structures to provide political decision making power to a specific group. Immigration and cultural politics: however, canada is highly diverse country ethnically and racially, beyond the english- Contemporary immigration patterns: moreover, this is increasingly becoming the case via contemporary trends in immigration patterns, traditionally, immigration reinforced european and caucasian ethnicity in canada, contemporary immigration is much more diverse in terms of ethnicity. Like quebecers and aboriginals, many other groups in canada are distinct in terms of culture, ethnicity, and language: moreover, many of these other groups often face unequal relations in broader society (racism, discrimination, exclusion). Potential solution: we can distinguish different groups based on the way in which a cultural minority is absorbed into canadian political society (canadian political philosopher, will.