Description of Canadas Past Population

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Lecture Overview

• Description of Canadas Past Population
• Description of Canadas Current/Future Population
• Definitions of concepts

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Description of Canadas Past

• Why learn about the history of racialized groups?
  
• Stephan Stephan 02
• Cultural Circles Exercise
• Similar to Qs Why learn about own culture?

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Aboriginals

• Stereotypes of them
• As inferior, incapable
• Practices toward them
• Indian Act other practices engaged in
• Forcible assimilation,
• Segregation (prohibited from leaving reserves
  w/out a pass, prohibited from land ownership)
• Cultural suppression (prevented from celebrating
  ceremonial events, determined who was an Indian)
• Sent children residential schools run by
  missionaries
• No right to vote

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African Canadians

• Slavery Practices
• Segregation
• From Schools, churches, restaurants, hospitals,
  public transport
• Residentially via deeds, leases
• Restricted to menial, low-paying, exhausting
  labour

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Chinese Canadians

• Recruited labour from China, subject to poor
  working conditions
• Were seen as threat after completing contract
  work,
• Limits on Chinese immigration
• Head tax imposition
• No voting rights
• Limited ability to
• own property, run business, enter certain
  professions employ people

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Other VM Canadians

• Japanese Canadians
• Sent to relocation/detention camps
• Stripped of property, businesses savings
• After war, asked to disperse/repatriate to Japan
• South Asian Canadians
• Laws controlled their economic social mobility
• Immigration laws
• Vancouver incident

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Jewish Canadians

• Prevented from immigration during Nazi
  persecution
• Legally prevented from
• Staying in Hotel/resorts
• Owning, living, buying property, being sold
  property to

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Review

• Description of Canadas Past Population
• Description of Canadas Current/Future Population

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Canadian Population in 2017

• 19-23 of Canadians will be VM
• Why?
• Immigration
• Immigrants will be 22 of popn
• Higher fertility of VM
• Younger age structure of VM

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Canadian Population in 2017

• Who?
• Equal proportions of S. Asian Chinese, next
  highest is Black
• Where?
• 75 of VM will be living in TO, Vancouver,
  Montreal
• More than 50 of SA 40 of Chinese in Canada
  will live in TO
• Of the VMs in Montreal, 27 will be Blacks 19
  will be Arab

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Implications of Forecasts

• By VM group
• By VM geographic region
• For
• Recruitment
• Community Services
• Service Industries

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Review

• Description of Canadas Past Population
• Description of Canadas Current/Future Population
• Definitions of concepts
• Race
• Discrimination
• Stereotyping
• Prejudice

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What is Race

• An old classification system based on
• Skin colour
• Bodily features
• Accent/speech
• Name
• Clothing/grooming
• Diet
• Beliefs/practices
• Leisure preferences
• Place of origin
• Citizenship

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Problems with concept of Race

• Lack of scientific evidence for racial
  classification system
• Differences within races on important
  characteristics are greater than those between
  races
• Social belief in existence of race has persisted
  despite lack of scientific proof

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What is not Race?

• Difference between race .
• Gender
• Discrimination, prejudice, stereotyping
• Other cultural characteristics (e.g.,
  individualism)
• Use test of amt of differences between vs. within
  groups

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What is discrimination?

• Discrimination
• When similar or better qualified applicant
• Does not get job applied for
• Gets job below qualification
• Receives lower pay for same job

Krauss in NYT
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What is discrimination?

• Unequal treatment or behavior toward members of
  different groups (Stephan Stephan 02)
• Distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference
  based on group membership impairing human rights
  (Human rights doc)
• Impose burdens not imposed on others
• Withhold or limit access to benefits available to
  others

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Examples of Discrimination

• Individual
• E.g., behaviors like different performance
  ratings for members of different groups all else
  being equal
• Institutional
• Policies, practices, procedures that disadvantage
  members of some groups
• Unequal representation in upper middle layers
  of administration, economic media institutions

Compare with Brief et al
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Examples of Discrimination

• Societal
• Group differences in
• Poverty
• Imprisonment
• Access to employment, housing, healthcare

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Prejudice
Discrimination
Stereotype
Stephan Stephan 02
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What are stereotypes

• Associating members of certain groups with
  certain characteristics
• E.g., Perceived to be alike in some way (i.e.
  have similar traits)
• E.g., Most Asians are smart, geeky, have
  similar eye size
• Can be positive or negative
• Can be true/false of group / individual
• Implications for functionality

Stephan Stephan 02
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Examples of Stereotypes

• Confusing one member of group for another
• Believing them to be similar in
  personality/behavior
• E.g., editors vs. journalists
• Assuming characteristics of individual based on
  group membership
• E.g., assuming your are nanny because you are
  Filipino, Assuming non-Whites are not Canadian

Wongs Globe Mail
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What are not stereotypes?

• Prejudice
• Negative feelings (e.g., dislike) toward someone
  because of group they belong to
• Discrimination
• Behavior/outcome

Wong in Globe Mail Krauss in NYT
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What are not stereotypes

• Culturally valid characteristics
• e.g., collectivism
• Asians score higher (in general) on collectivism,
  
• Any single Asian may not score higher than a
  non-Asian on collectivism
• Scores on collectivism can be reliably measured
• Scores on collectivism are related to important
  other characteristics

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What is racism/prejudice?

• Negative attitudes
• Negative evaluations feelings
• E.g., Evaluations They are bad
• Feelings I hate..
• Stephan Stephan 02
• Compare w/Human Rights doc definitions
• Racism vs. prejudice has notion of power
• Sociologically based

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Prejudice
Negative Feelings
Negative Thoughts
Negative Associations
Stereotypes
Positive Associations
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Todays learning

• A brief history of visible minority groups in
  Canada
• What will be the nature of Canadas population?
• Compare contrast the concepts of
• Race
• Stereotyping
• Prejudice
• Discrimination