SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Western People, Racialization, De Facto
9 Feb 2016
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Ethnic groups: a collection of people distinguished, by others or themselves, primarily on the basis of cultural, and national characteristics, 5 main characteristics. Unique cultural traits, such as language, clothing, holidays, or religion. Territoriality, or the tendency to occupy a distinct geographic area. Canada is a diverse and complex society composed of racially and ethnically. Canada is widely renowned for its cultural democracy and harmonious ethnic different groups diversity. Have been biological arguments but research in genetics convincingly show that racial categorization based on phonotypical differences (such as facial characteristics or skin color) do not correlate with genotypical differences (differences in genetic makeup) This leads geneticists to find race to be an inadequate and even harmful way to think about human biological differences (goodman 2000) Significant gains have been made in the past fifty years for visible" and non-visible". However, racism is an important part of canada"s history and part of its current minority groups in canada circumstances.
