Culture
A learned and shared system of beliefs, values, and practices
Diversity refers to:
The presence of differences within a group or society
Indigenous rights are based on:
Self-determination, cultural integrity,respect for the land, no discrimination, informed consent
What is privilege?
Having unearned advantages due to social identity or characteristics
The idea that language influences how we think and perceive the world is called __________.
Language relativity
True or False:
Tolerance means accepting all behaviors, even those that harm others.
False
What is Usos y Costumbres
Indigenous systems of traditional laws and local governance.
Intersectionality was developed by __________ to explain overlapping systems of discrimination.
Give me an example of political cultural expression
Protests and social movements
Difference between integration and inclusion
Integration means different groups share the same spaces, while Inclusion ensures equal participation and voice.
Explain two critisism towards usos y costumbres
Gender violence
Human rights violation
State instrumentalization
Romantization
Seeing a cultural group as different or inferior
Explain the difference between pop culture and high culture and how they can reflect social inequality.
Pop culture = mass, accessible; high culture = elite, exclusive; show link to inequality (who participates or has access).
Explain the paradox of tolerance and give a short example.
Allowing intolerance can destroy tolerance itself. Example: permitting hate speech undermines democratic values.
Explain one difference between decolonization and indigenization.
Decolonization = undoing colonial systems; Indigenization = rebuilding institutions using Indigenous knowledge and values.
Creating social hierarchies, undermining mental and physical health, and fostering cycles of intergenerational trauma and poverty
Cultural capital can appear as embodied, objectified, or institutionalized forms.
Explain and give one example of each.
Embodied: Internalized dureing socialization like going to museums
Objectified: Capital turned into specific objects like books or works of art
Institutionalized: Degrees and diplomas from education system showing you have the correct capital. Going to university
What is Cultural relativism?
the theory that beliefs, customs, and morality exist in relation to the particular culture from which they originate and are not absolute.
Explain what one author of decolonization and one of indigenization
Frantz Fanon: bye colonizers and new society without internalized inferiority
Anibal Quijano: Colonial hierarchies stay in race and knowledge, Challenge eurocentric modernity
Marie Battiste: indigenous perspective in education as a valid form of knowledge
Leanne: Rebuilding life, governance and culture from within and transform the understanding of justice and democracy
Describe how structural, ideological, and social dimensions of inequality interact to maintain oppression.
Structural = institutions/laws; ideological = beliefs; social = relationships. These reinforce each other to sustain inequality.