Chapter3

Question 1

culture

Answer 1

The way of life of a society that includes dress, language, norms of behaviour, foods, tools, beliefs, and folklore. This framework of values and practices adapts to the changing socio-historical context.

Question 2

vertical mosaic

Answer 2

Coined by John Porter, a socio-economic hierarchy in which French and English Canadians live at the top and other ethnic minorities are positioned below.

Question 3

diaspora

Answer 3

The dispersal of any group of people throughout the world; originally applied to the tribes of Israel. Almost any migrant community with some degree of international heritage is referred to as diasporic.

Question 4

prejudice

Answer 4

A hostile or aversive attitude towards a person who belongs to a particular group, simply because of that person’s membership in the group.

Question 5

individual racism

Answer 5

Classic’ form of prejudice in which a person makes unfounded assumptions about the motives and abilities of another based on a stereotypical understanding of the person’s racial or ethnic group characteristics

Question 6

internalized racism

Answer 6

When members of an ethnic or racial group accept and sometimes behave according to imposed stereotypes.

Question 7

social distance

Answer 7

Feelings of aloofness and inapproachability often felt between members of different social strata or of different ethnic or ‘racial’ origins

Question 8

racialization

Answer 8

The tendency in a community to introduce racial distinctions into situations that can be understood and managed without such distinctions, in other words, the way social institutions impose racial identities on minorities.

Question 9

aversive racists

Answer 9

Those who sympathize with the victims of past injustice and support public policies that promote racial equality but who, nonetheless, hold prejudicial views towards other races.

Question 10

racial discrimination

Answer 10

‘Any distinction, exclusion, restriction, or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin that has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing the
recognition, enjoyment of exercise . . . of human rights and fundamental freedoms’ (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1969).