SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cultural Genocide, Ethnic Group, Ethnocentrism
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Race: a group who share biological features that members of a society deem socially significant. A scribed membership: traits that you are born with. The importance of racial or ethnic features is conferred. Their importance is not inherent in the features themselves. Shift from a vertical mosaic to a cultural mosaic. Enriching the need to recognize all canadians as full and equal partners in canadian society. Pluralism: the social recognition that ethnic and racial minorities are distinct but have social parity. Racism: the belief that one racial category is innately superior to another. Automatic assumptions are made about you because you are white: those assumption usually benefit you. White means you are better than the others. Assimilation: the process by which minorities gradually adopt patterns of the dominant culture. What"s not being written: you adopt the new culture, but destroy the other one, discrimination is quite here. 85% believe immigrant have obligation to learn canadian ways and the language.
