ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Potlatch, Profit Motive, Nationstates
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The u. s. census bureau has been gathering data by race since 1790. Brazil: race is more flexible than in the u. s. Racial discrimination may change due to achieved status, developmental biological changes, and other irregular factors. ***not all cultures define race the same way*** No hypodescent rule ever developed in brazil to ensure that whites and blacks remained separate. Nation: society sharing common language, religion, history, territory, ancestry, kinship. Nationalities: groups that have, or wish to have, autonomous political status. Assimilation: when a minority adopts the patterns and norms of the host culture. Incorporates dominant culture so much it no longer exists as a separate cultural unit. Multiculturalism: the view of cultural diversity as valuable and worth maintaining in its own right. Plural society: a culture combining ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and economic interdependence. Shifted focus from specific cultural practices and values to relations between ethnic groups.
