REC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Visible Minority, Melting Pot, Acculturation

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: REC100
• Professor: Zara Rafferty

Document Summary

Race is concerned with shared physical features (e. g. , skin colour, eye shape) Ethnicity is concerned with common cultural characteristics (e. g. , language, religion, traditions, ancestral origin, family patterns, value systems, etc. Visible minority group - people who are non-caucasian in race or non-white in colour. Culture: a system of shared beliefs, values, customs, behaviours, and artifacts not biological; we do not inherit it we learn it. A symbol is something that stands for something else. vary cross-culturally and are arbitrary. This is known as holism, or the various parts of a culture being interconnected. Anglo-conformity: ethnic and racial minorities expected to conform to dominant. Understandably, most groups not willing to do this. Out of this resistance, new models of change developed. Melting pot: ethnic, racial and ethnic divisions are shed and a new cultural is. Everyone comes together and new characteristics are formed that are unique to. This is often used to describe the us population.