SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dutch Canadians, Sexual Fantasy, Racialization
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Test number 1 is two weeks from today info on blackboard. People leave they"re homes to escape war, politics, genocide, ect. Wars all around the world are often ethnic based. Genocide has taken place many places against many different races. Collectively imagined on basis of a supposedly important natural difference. Many problems discussed today begin with this. Societies vary in degree and kinds of inequalities they show over time and area. Snpns- look for this in suggested readings. Today narratives of blames will be called mythologies. Mythologies attach moral meanings to these differences. Under conditions of inequalities their will always be a struggle. This book deals with the westerners and middle easterners. He says westerners see middle east as weird, sensual, different, through fantasy imagery, harems. The orient is strange said says oriental is sweeping generalization and a stereotype. Oriental man is feminine weak and strangely dangerous because of threat they pose to western women.
