CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mohawk People, Saskatoon Freezing Deaths, Canadian Identity
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Canada"s culture was based on founded racism, there was strategies for. There are ignorance in groups for social construct. It groups all these communities all together, "asian", there are so many different groups in this subject but we put them all together in one group. Fails to see how ethnicity is socially constructed. Shifts the focus from social justice and racism to ethnic identity and cultural diversity. Prohibits citizens to categorize themselves into a political community organized on the basis of class, gender and racialization. White is considered normal, the way to be and to thrive to be: what is important, is that the culture of white dominance is the normal culture, france with the burkini ban, this is a example. Those that are not white are culturally inferior. Quote= "this is about protecting canadian value: there is no canadian values= this is problematic, assuming that canadian values are a real thing, working in the nation building of the other.