HIST277 Lecture Notes - Acculturation
23 Sep 2013
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Prejudice refers to a negative judgment made towards individuals or groups because of their ethnicity, race or religion or based on gender, age, physical appearance or disability. In canada, prejudice and racism existed amongst the. European and aboriginal peoples, the african american as well as with the. Immigration of south asians and orientals into canada. Aboriginal and first nations people have been subject to a lot of prejudice and racism in the past. Over time, the canadian judicial and correctional systems became instruments of social control with which to impose a certain way of life on. The governments isolated the aboriginals on reserves and, in conjunction with the major christian denominations, attempted to eradicate their culture through the introduction of european agriculture, education and. The early european settlers held strong prejudices about the aboriginal peoples because they considered those who did not share in their christian beliefs to be inferior to them.
