SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Japanese Canadians, Visible Minority

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 201
• Professor: Valerie Ann Haines

Document Summary

Some people are better based on race discrimination. Race and ethnicity are fundamentally different phenomena, but go hand in hand. Textbook suggests that people can change their ethnicity by adopting a different lifestyle. Ex) japanese canadians share biological traits, those who maintain traditional practices (religion) also have a common ethnicity. Ex) jewish canadians are just an ethnic group because they only share the same religion and historical persecution. Immigrants: those who have moved to canada and have been granted the right to permanently live in canada by immigration authorities (not born here) Immigration is fundamentally important in canada (in the past and present) that so(cid:373)e so(cid:272)iologists (cid:272)o(cid:374)sider ca(cid:374)ada (cid:862)the la(cid:374)d of i(cid:373)(cid:373)igra(cid:374)ts(cid:863: foreign-born (immigrant) population: 2006: 19. 8% of total population of canada. 2011: 20. 6% of total population of canada (1/5) Immigration is an important contributor to population growth (population can only grow by increased birth rate or immigration) 1970s: accounted for almost 38% of population growth.