SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: American Literature, Ethnic Group, Edward Said
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People who are perceived as significantly different from another are often victimized; tallying up massacres and violence that correspond with racial and ethnic issues (ie. armenian massacres) . Racial differentiation is not simplistic; it is a cause of extreme violence through conflicts, inequalities, and such over racial or ethnic differences . Yugoslavia: people next to each other and neighbours for hundreds of years went to war against each other (serbs vs. muslims, etc. ) It did not make sense for peace to suddenly be shattered by murder . Habits of inequality theory will give understanding of inequalities with racial and ethnic inequalities . Institutional completeness: strategy used for self protection; ethnic groups are better at protecting themselves with institutional completeness than any other kind of inequality groups. Mythology attaches moral meanings to these inequalities and how these better/worse differences explain why there are advantages for specific groups over another .
