SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Employment Equity (Canada), Visible Minority, Race Matters
Document Summary
Race and ethnicity in canada today (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Much has been written about class and stratification, race/ethnicity and gender. Canada is diverse ethnic and racial country. Lots of different people, identifying to different groups (either by choice or by labels by others) Canada has a very strong reputation for the level of harmony and relatively little conflict, given the level of diversity. Canada is seen as a place where you can have diverse co-existing groups without doing things with violence and conflict. Made significant gains for visible and non-visible minority groups. However, canada does have issues with racism. Canada is not perfect, it does have history of racism, etc. , but compared to other countries we are better in the sense of diversity. Melting pot adding ingredients and blending together, therefore cannot distinguish all of. John porter is most famous for the phrase vertical mosaic the ingredients. Check your differences at the door and embrace this homogeneous ethnicity.
