SOC102H1 Chapter : Race & Ethnicity
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Social problems: chapter 3: race and ethnic relations. People view racial prejudice as unfair, tend to look for remedies. Since it is unfair, it creates conflict between majorities and minorities and those who are prejudiced and those who are not. Prejudice and its outcome of discrimination, conflict, exclusion, hatred and distrust are politically and economically wasteful waste human recourse and hinder society"s potential for prosperity. No matter how we define the causes and allocate the blame, it is a problem in the canadian society. Some believe that if race and ethnicity are not the same, they are closely related. But cultural differences can exist between people who look the same, but they seem more significant and prominent when they are sharpened by clear differences in physical appearance. Physical features shared by one race are a supposed result of different survival adaptations during the course of the evolution. Race and ethnicity are not necessarily connected.
