GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Common Descent, Visible Minority, Ethnic Group
13 Oct 2015
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20 th century: postwar migration: revised immigration regulations, refugees, family, and economic migrants, removed racial, ethnic, religious, and national origin biases, migration to cities, civil rights movement opened south to african-americans, mexican and latin american migration. Diversity and racism: asserts some races are superior to others, two types of racialized groups, minority, dominant. Ethnic group: common ancestry, language, religion, culture, often based on national origin of oneself or ancestors, acquired, changeable. Racialized group: behavior is attributed to physiognomic characteristics, often based on skin colour. In canada, visible minority: ascribed, fixed, fictitious. Multiculturalism: passive diversity in private sphere, public promote pluralism. Multicultural usa: always pluralistic, no official multiculturalism, legal recognition of rights, emancipation, 1863, civil rights, 1964, affirmative action. Multicultural canada: always pluralistic, multiculturalism act, 1971, minorities retain cultural identities, full participation for all groups, interactions among groups, immigrants learn an official language, charter of rights and freedoms, 1982, employment equity, 1986.
