Exam 10: Race and Ethnicity

Compare the experiences of African Canadians and Asian Canadians.What can be learned by analyzing their experiences?

Does intermarriage lead to disappearance of racism? Why or why not?

According to the textbook, what is the outcome of social structural barriers to assimilation?

Which of the following refers to unfair treatment of people based on their real or imagined group membership?

Which of the following Canadians is least likely to be able to enjoy symbolic ethnicity?

What are the advantages of claiming an ethnicity in Canada? How might these advantages shape a person's experiences?

Which of the following refers to the process whereby one group of people within a nation gain control over the others and segregate them in most areas of social life?

In the middle of the twentieth century, Canada was sharply stratified along ethnic and racial lines.Those with the most power and privilege were of British origin, known as "WASPs" or White Anglo-Saxon Protestants.

Using an example, describe a transnational community.

Chinese men were brought in to Canada particularly to work on the most difficult and dangerous section of the Canadian Pacific Railway line.According to the textbook, how many Chinese workers died per every kilometre of railway track?

Experiences of the textbook author John Lie prove that prejudice and discrimination are never directed against whites.

Summarize the most important aspects of the position of the Québécois in Canada.What theory of racial and ethnic relations explains them best?

Canadian and American racial and ethnic policies are quite different, but the two countries have quite similar degrees of economic and social integration of immigrants.

Which of the following positions in today's Québec is most likely to be occupied by an anglophone?

Nia and Costas have worked hard to open and maintain a restaurant in Greektown.They plan to leave the restaurant to their children when they retire, so the children may have a legacy and ongoing ties with the homeland.What kind of advantage of ethnic group affiliation does their plan rely on?

Canadian government has hired you as a consultant to improve the economic and social integration of Aboriginal Canadians.What are your proposals?

Halyna speaks Ukrainian fluently, makes traditional food, dances at traditional festivals, and was married at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.Which of the following is she a part of?

What explains the lesser economic success of recent immigrants to Canada in the 1990s than in the 1970s?

A significant reason why Canada's Aboriginal peoples have failed to integrate is internal colonialism.

Learning from the history of relations between the British and the French in Canada, which of the following areas of public life is the best to control if a group wishes to hold power over another?