Race

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Race Ethnicity

• Processes of Acceptance Rejection of Minority
  by the Dominant Group

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Mode of Entrance

• Impacts the manner in which the minority group
  will be accepted or rejected.
• Groups that are forced to enter a country are
  more likely to face open hostility and greater
  difficulty in ability to assimilate.
• Groups who choose to enter may be impacted by the
  economic infrastructure of the country.

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Migrant

• These are people who change their place of
  residencewhether it be from one place to
  another.
• Less specific than either Immigration or
  Emigration

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Immigrant

• More specific than Migrants
• Individuals who enters one country to live in
  another
• Overall, the majority of immigrants who have
  entered the U.S. have had similar
  characteristics

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Immigrant Characteristics

• Poor
• Uneducated
• Primarily it has been the males who came first
• Secondary stage is the immigration of families
• Typically very young

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Emigrant

• Differs from an Immigrant
• Refers to an individual who leaves one country
  for another

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Xenophobia

• Occurs when the dominant groups experiences
  suspicion and fear
• These emotions may then become extreme and lead
  to volatile, irrational feelings and actions
• Xenophobia is the name given to this undue fear
  or contempt for strangers or foreigners(can lead
  to extreme hysterics among overall population)

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Ethnocentrism

• Very narrow and restrictive view of others
• Can be positive when you liken it to patriotic
  displays
• Becomes negative when it encourages the creation
  of negative stereotypes
• Encourages negative stereotypes, which can then
  lead to extreme prejudice and discrimination

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Cultural Relativism

• Developing an understanding of another cultures
  norms and values
• An unbiased or prejudicial perspective of another
  group

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Modes of Acceptance

• Cultural Pluralism
• Amalgamation
• Assimilation
• Forced
• Acculturation
• Structural
• Primary
• Secondary

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Cultural Pluralism

• The minority group is able to maintain their
  norms and values. Respect is maintained for
  cultural norms and values.

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Amalgamation

• Formation of a new subculture
• Result of intermarriage among different cultures
  over a period of time
• Unlike the process of assimilation, respect for
  the original subculture is maintained.

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Assimilation

• Forced- minority group has to adapt the
  characteristics of the dominant culture in order
  to be considered functional in society.

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Assimilation

• Acculturation- the minority chooses to adapt the
  characteristics of the dominant culture
• But they still do not have full social and
  political participation

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Assimilation

• Structural as a result of social interaction,
  members from different racial and ethnic groups
  interact with one another
• Primary the result of informal interactions and
  often results in intermarriage
• Secondary- more formal and is the result of
  participation in public (work,school,parks,etc.)

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Modes of Rejection
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Genocide

• Refers to the process of a dominant group
  deliberately killing members of an entire group
  or nation in a systematic manner
• Ethnic cleansing-introduced as a policy by the
  ethnic Serbs. They used this as an intention plan
  to cleanse or eliminate Muslims from parts of
  Bosnia

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Genocidal Methods

• Mass killing of entire members of a group
• Physically destroying the living environment
• Bringing physical and emotional destruction of
  members of a group

• Prevention of pregnancy via forced sterilization
  or other similar methods
• Transference of children from one group to
  another group

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Oppression(InternalColonialism)

• Recognition of the physical existence of a
  minority group
• Denied access and participation in the political,
  social, economic, and cultural structures of
  society

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Expulsion

• Direct- forced or overt removal of a minority
  group from a selected area. Governmental forces
  are typically used to remove minority from areas.
• Indirect due to subliminal and other subtle
  harassments, a minority group appears to
  involuntarily leave an area.

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Exclusion

• Refusing to allow entrance of a new ethnic or
  racial group in order to maintain Ethnic
  Homogenity(maintaining balance of existing ethnic
  groups).
• -e.g. immigration laws

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Segregation

• The physical separation of racial and ethnic
  groups in living, work, and social functions.
• De Jure upheld by the law
• De Facto no longer legal, but the traditions
  and customs continue as if they were
• Jim Crow Laws
• Apartheid of South Africa

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Miscegenation Laws

• Laws which prohibited marriage between people of
  two different racial groups.
• 1967- Loving vs. Loving passed making it illegal
  to have such laws

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation
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http//www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/c
onlaw/loving.html