POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Visible Minority, Heredity, Chinese Head Tax In Canada
27 May 2014
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November 16, 2012: ethnic diversity in canada. What about race: ruth benedict: in briefest possible definition, race is a classification based on. Therefore when we talk about race we are talking about traits transmitted by heredity which characterize all the members of a related group (benedict, race 113: the process of attributing meaning to real or invented somatic (and cultural) The term race is horribly tainted by segregation. Historically: 1876-1996 aboriginal residential schools, 1885 chinese head tax and exclusion act, 1908 bc municipal elections prevented asiatic or indian persons from voting in local elections, 1941-1946 wwii internment of japanese people. Economically: percentage of low income by: Multicultural policy in canada: ethnic origin visible minority: 27. 2% 1: charter of rights and freedoms (1982) Section 27 charter should be interpreted in lights of the multicultural heritage of canadians: canadian multiculturalism act (1988)
