GEOG 1280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ethnocentrism, Social Distance, Visible Minority

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEOG 1280
• Professor: Lisa M.Ford

Document Summary

Identity: race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, identity. Identity: is how we make sense of ourselves: how do we establish identities, we construct our identities through experiences, emotions, connections, and rejections, an identity is a snapshot of who we are at a point in time. Europeans consider themselves the best, we often get our ideas from what the. Europeans determined: boundaries between races are arbitrary, best thought as of a political and social construction, race: a social construction, the ter(cid:373) (cid:862)(cid:271)la(cid:272)k(cid:863, britain. Refers to afro-caribbean and africans and people from india: russia, black describes chechens, a negative, degrading description because of the war between these groups of people. Jewish people in the past: ex. Proportion of visible minorities, canada, provinces and territories, 1991, 1996 and 2001. 0. 8: visible minorities by province, 1991 and 2001 censuses. Race: fixed biological category that is used from generation to generation; thought to be a physical trait. Ethnicity: identity; thought to be a cultural trait.