ANT 1101 Lecture Notes - Thandie Newton, Multiculturalism In Canada, Canadian Multiculturalism Act

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANT 1101
• Professor: Natalie Ward

Document Summary

Race: race is defined as a human population distinguished on the basis of socially perceived physical traits such as skin pigmentation, hair texture, facial features and the like. Racism: racism is defined as a philosophy of racial antipathy that asserts the superiority of one human group over another based on real or perceived genetically transmuted differences. Today ethnicity refers to a shared cultural heritage . The idea that each culture must be studied in its own context and in terms of its own values and ideals rather than those of the observer.