Ethnicity
What is ethnicity?
a shared cultural background that can be traced back to a specific hearth.
Why do African Americans in the USA tend to live in the Southeast states.
It is because of the slavery that brought their ancestors to those states. Four million slaves were living in the south when slavery was abolished.
what is the difference between ethnic cleansing and genocide?
Ethnic cleansing is trying to remove an ethnicity from an entire region. Genocide is doing so by murdering the entire ethnicity, so genocide is a type of ethnic cleansing.
Which region of Canada has almost left a few times due to ethnic conflict.
Quebec
What is the difference between ethnicity and nationality?
ethnicity has to do with a shared cultural heritage, nationality has to do with legal documents saying what region you belong to.
how do Hispanics in the USA show the difficulties in distinguishing between ethnicity and race?
Hispanic isn't an option on the census forms so most Hispanics write down that they are Caucasian, even though Hispanics are made up of a variety of different ethnicities.
What are the two terms about why people migrate.
what is often considered the first modern genocide?
The Armenian Genocide.
What changed in 1967 to make Canada a more diverse country?
Canada changed from an ethnic based immigration system to a points based system. People were now allowed to move to Canada based on how they could help the country, not on where they were from.
What are some of the causes of ethnic competition.
A desire to have a say in the government of the country they are located in. Most of the time, it has to do with a desire for more power.
What is urban clustering?
A process by where people of similar ethnic backgrounds tend to move to similar parts of cities. For example, in Detroit most people of European ethnicities live on the west side while African Americans live on the east side.
What is the triangular trade.
The slave trade where ships went back and forth between Europe, Africa, and America.
What were two of the genocides we learned about in our genocide jigsaws?
Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, and Bosnia
What is nationalism and how might it have created ethnic conflict in Canada.
nationalism is loyalty and devotion to a country. Nationalism has impacted Canada by the almost division of Quebec a few times and by the way that European Canadians treated First Nations when first trying to establish Canada.
What happened in Sri Lanka when the Tamil people tried to get more of a say in the government?
They became engaged in a civil war with the Sinhalese people that lasted from 1982 until 2009. Tens of thousands died.
Why do recent immigrants to Canada tend to practice urban clustering?
It allows them to move to a community that has a shared ethnic background. They are able to assimilate into a country but also able to speak their language and be around familiar sights, sounds, and tastes. Also, there are usually more job opportunities in cities, though this is changing in Canada.
What is apartheid?
A system of racist segregation in South Africa that existed from 1948 until 1994 that affected things such as where Africans could live, work, who they could marry, and what education was available.
Other than murder, what are two of the things people do during ethnic cleansing to remove a group.
Make it illegal to speak the language, ban their religious ceremonies, force them to assimilate, insist on taking control of education, separating families, or moving people away from the area and burning their homes to name a few.
Who was Chanie Wenjack?
A First Nations boy who was forced to go to a residential school hundreds of kilometers from his home. He fled the abusive school and died while trying to walk home.
What are some of the problems that occur when dividing countries based on ethnicity?
There is no such thing as a true nation state, all countries are multi-ethnic (more than one ethnicity). Ethnicities that are divided into new countries are often the victims of discrimination by the new government.
Why might African Americans who were former slaves have remained int eh southern states following the 13th amendment?
It was the only place they had ever known, there friends and families were there, and they thought that they would be able to work hard and prosper now that they were free.
why did the northern states not pass Jim Crow laws like the south did.
They didn't need to. Systemic racism, such as not giving African Americans the better paying jobs, was so prevalent that making actual laws was not needed. The north was almost a racist as they south, they just didn't make it legal.
Why do different groups engage in ethnic cleansing.
Ethnic cleansing has to do with power and property. The group who commits ethnic cleansing usually wants either land that the group being removed has or wants to have better control of a region or country. Removing different ethnicities can contribute to nationalism.
What was the government of Canada hoping to do with the creation of residential schools?
Force First Nations to assimilate into Canada by committing ethnic cleansing (cultural genocide).
What happened in India when the country split based on ethnicity?
There were millions of Muslims living in Hindu India and millions of Hindus living in Muslim Pakistan. When trying to migrate between the two regions, the travelers were often victims of racist attacks. Many people were massacred while trying to move.