SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Ethnic Group, Symbolic Ethnicity, Official Language
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The view persists that races differs biologically: ex: we commonly hear that black people are better than white people at sports, but this simply isn"t true as a general statement. An attitude that judges a person on his or her group"s real or imagined characteristics. Unfair treatment of people because of their group membership: a social construct used to distinguish people in terms of one or more physical o markers, usually with profound effects on their lives. Just because it is a social construct does not mean people can choose what race they are a part of. It is imposed, not chosen it is impossible to neatly distinguish races based on genetic differences o. Influences things from your wealth, to health, to education. A disadvantaged person or category of people whom others blame for their own problems: e. g. : the germans used jews as scapegoats for their deep economic problems after wwi.
