DEI
What is IDE?
The transmission of customs or beliefs passed on from generation to generation.
What are categories of identity?
This type of unconscious bias occurs when individuals are more likely to remember information that confirms their pre-existing beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
Ableism, Ageism, Classism, Racism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, Sexism, Xenophobism.
What are systems of oppression?
When people feel that they are welcome and valued.
What is Inclusion?
A category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.
What is ethnicity?
A term referring to the combined force of anti-black racism and misogyny directed towards black women
What is Misogynoir ?
Employee Resource Group
What is an ERG?
This form of unconscious bias causes people to prefer those who are similar to them in terms of background, interests, or appearance.
What is affinity bias?
A three-story office building does not have a working elevator. This is an example of
What is ableism?
The presence of different characteristics and perspectives in a group or organization.
A man-made social construct masquerading as a biological truth, established to divide groups of people based on their appearances and other qualities.
What is race?
“People First Language” (PFL) puts the person before the disability and describes what a person has, not who a person is. PFL uses phrases such as “person with a disability,” “individuals with disabilities,” and “children with disabilities,” as opposed to phrases that identify people based solely on their disability, such as “the disabled.”
What does People-First or Person-First language mean?
Exclusive unearned access or access to material and immaterial resources based on membership to a dominant group.
What does privilege mean?
This unconscious bias refers to the tendency to attribute certain traits or behaviors to an entire group of people, based on preconceived notions.
What is stereotyping?
Policies and practices rooted in Canadian institutions such as, education, health care, and justice that mirror and reinforce beliefs, attitudes, prejudice, stereotyping and/or discrimination towards people of Black-African descent.
What is Anti-Black Racism?
Equality means each individual or group of people is given the same resources or opportunities. Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.
What is the difference between equity and equality?
The way a group of people live that include their customs, language, religion, etc.
What is culture?
Describes the idea that multiple identities intersect to create a whole identity (gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, etc.).
What is Intersectionality?
Intersectionality shows us that social identities work on multiple levels, resulting in unique experiences, opportunities, and barriers for each person.
Everyday verbal and nonverbal whether intentional or unintentional, communicates hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership.
What are micro-agressions?
This type of cognitive bias occurs when an individual's first impression of someone greatly influences their subsequent interactions and opinions.
What is the halo effect?
The act of speaking or behaving in a way that’s meant to demonstrate one’s good moral values. For example, if a person widely proclaims on social media that they strongly support a certain cause, because they want to show others how caring they are
What is Virtue Signaling?
A person’s perception of acceptance within a given group, including a work environment
What is Belonging?
Is a generalization about a group's characteristics, that does not consider any variation from one member of the group to the next.
What is stereotype?
Indigenous, Black, people of colour.
What is IBPOC?
Pronounced “ib-pock”. Places Indigenous communities at the forefront, acknowledging their experience and unique relationship to whiteness and colonialism in Canada.
The non-consensual/misappropriate use of cultural elements for commodification or profit purposes – including symbols, art, language, customs, etc. – often without understanding, acknowledgment or respect for its value in the context of its original culture.
What is Cultural Appropriation?
This is a type of bias that you are aware of.
What is conscious bias?
Refers to laws, policies, and institutions that give unfair advantages to some racial groups while harming others.
What is systemic racism?