ANTH 2020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Meritocracy, Anglo-Saxons, Ethnocentrism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH 2020
• Professor: Davorka Ljubisic

Document Summary

Canada is mostly known to the world as a tossed salad and a multicultural nation. Many people see canada as an accepting and tolerant country in regards to immigration and humanitarian efforts. Though this may be true, canada has always been a white majority and with so many different cultures and races there is of course sometimes tension. This being said, with the support of the information in augie fleras book unequal relations: an. Introduction to race, ethnic, and aboriginal dynamics in canada, i will argue that canada is in fact a racist society. Though we may not be a racist society to an extreme level as is the case with some other countries around the world, we still have our issues that cannot be ignored. Before we discuss the debate of whether canada is a racist society we must first define what race is and where it came from.