SY210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pew Research Center, 2010 United States Census, Homo Sapiens
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The continuing relevance of race and racial inequality in daily life. Study of us university students - evidence of confused thinking. Typical response: [races are] the different cultures people are from [based on] the country that their relatives came over from, however long ago it might been. Typical response, same students: like, you know, asians . Survey item: there are biological races within the species homo sapiens . Minority still seem to believe in biological races. Often cited by respondents agreeing: physical appearance, genetic makeup, evolutionary history, disease susceptibility. Visible minority refers to whether a person belongs to a visible minority group as defined by the employment equity act and, if so, the visible minority group to which the person belongs. The employment equity act defines visible minorities as. "persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are non-caucasian in race or non- white in colour. "
