APPENDIX B - Glossary

Question 1

Define the following word: Civilization

Answer 1

A civilization is a well organized laws and rules about how people beave with each other. The condition that exists when people have developed effective ways of organizing a society and care about art, science, etc.

Question 2

Define the following word: Colonization

Answer 2

Colonization is when one country takes political and economic control of another, while attempting to impose its culture on the indigenous people. Example; When Europeans had taken over Canada and tried to brainwash Indigenous children through resident schools.

Question 3

Define the following word: Racism

Answer 3

Racism is a belief in the genetic superiority of the colonizing Whites and the inferiority of the colonized Aboriginals.

Question 4

Define the following word: Ethnocentrism

Answer 4

Ethnocentrism is the belief that one culture’s way is doing things is normal and correct, and that it should set the standard for other cultures. In the past, many groups have been ethnocentric, including those who came to settle in North America

Question 5

Define the following word: Primitive

Answer 5

“of or pertaining to a preliterate or tribal people having cultural or physical similarities with their early ancestors, which is no longer in technical use.
“of, belonging to, or seeming to come from a early time in the very ancient past, not having written language, advanced technology, etc. Depicted as heathen, savages, or primitive people.

Question 6

Define the following word: Society

Answer 6

“is a structured community of people bound together by similar traditions, institutions, or nationality.