ISS 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ethnocentrism, Acculturation, Institutionalized Discrimination
19 Mar 2018
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Social creation of arbitrary grouping of individuals in a society based on the color of their skin. Just a continent: races in the u. s. and future trends in the next years. Note trends for the white population is decreasing by 2050 will be less than 40% but. Other: historical background, early encounters with native americans, ethnocentrism. Labeling of natives as savages, animalistic, and heathens using personal standards to view other cultures: cooperation and relative equality changed to domination. British and german start as people exploring the land then exploitation and killing of native: acquisition of native land. The control and forced removal of the natives on their land: natives pushed to reservations. Living in separate places: native americans and their socioeconomic conditions. Race and inequality: hispanics in america, in 1848 the united states conquered and bought the areas where we have texas,
