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• Description of Canada’s Past Population
• Description of Canada’s Current/Future Population
• Definitions of concepts
Lecture Overview
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• Why learn about the history of racialized groups? – Stephan & Stephan 02– Cultural Circles Exercise
• Similar to Qs: Why learn about own culture?
Description of Canada’s Past
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Description of Canada’s Past Population
• Description of Canada’s Current Population
• Description of Canada’s Future Population
Review and next…
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• 16% of Canadians are VM – VM=non Aboriginal/non Caucasian
• Who?– 4% is South Asian– 4% is Chinese– 2.5% is Black
Canadian Population in 2006
04/2/08 The Daily Statistics Canada: Ethnic origin, visible minorities etc...
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• 19-23% of Canadians will be VM
• Why?– Immigration
• Immigrants will be 22% of pop’n
– Higher fertility of VM– Younger age structure of VM
Canadian Population in 2017
03/22/05 The Daily Statistics Canada: Canada's visible minority population in 2017
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• Who?– Equal proportions of S. Asian & Chinese, next
highest is Black
• Where?– 75% of VM will be living in TO, Vancouver,
Montreal• More than 50% of SA & 40% of Chinese in Canada will
live in TO
• Of the VMs in Montreal, 27% will be Blacks & 19% will be Arab
Canadian Population in 2017
03/22/05 The Daily Statistics Canada: Canada's visible minority population in 2017
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• By VM group
• By VM & geographic region
• For…– Recruitment– Community Services– Service Industries
Implications of Forecasts
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Description of Canada’s Past PopulationDescription of Canada’s Current & Future
Population
• Definitions of concepts– Race– Discrimination– Stereotyping– Prejudice
Review and what’s next
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• An old classification system based on – Skin colour – Bodily features
• Accent/speech
• Name
• Clothing/grooming
• Diet
• Beliefs/practices
• Leisure preferences
• Place of origin
• Citizenship
What is Race
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• Lack of scientific evidence for racial classification system– Differences within races on important
characteristics are greater than those between races
• Social belief in existence of race has persisted despite lack of scientific proof
Problems with concept of Race
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• Difference between race &….– Gender– Discrimination, prejudice, stereotyping– Other cultural characteristics (e.g., individualism)
• Use test of amt of differences between vs. within groups
What is not Race?
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• Discrimination– When similar or better qualified applicant…
• Does not get job applied for
• Gets job below qualification
• Receives lower pay for same job
What is discrimination?
Krauss in NYT
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• Unequal treatment or behavior toward members of different groups (Stephan & Stephan 02)
• Distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on group membership impairing human rights (Human rights doc)
– Impose burdens not imposed on others– Withhold or limit access to benefits available to
others
What is discrimination?
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• Individual– E.g., behaviors like different performance ratings
for members of different groups all else being equal
• Institutional– Policies, practices, procedures that disadvantage
members of some groups– Unequal representation in upper & middle layers
of administration, economic & media institutions
Examples of Discrimination
Compare with Brief et al
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• Societal– Group differences in
• Poverty
• Imprisonment
• Access to employment, housing, healthcare
Examples of Discrimination
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Stereotype
Prejudice
Discrimination
Stephan & Stephan 02
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• Associating members of certain groups with certain characteristics – E.g., Perceived to be alike in some way (i.e.
have similar traits)• E.g., Most Asians are “smart”, “geeky”, “have
similar eye size”
• Can be positive or negative
• Can be true/false of group &/ individual • Implications for functionality
What are stereotypes
Stephan & Stephan 02
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• Confusing one member of group for another– Believing them to be similar in personality or
behavior• E.g., editors vs. journalists
• Assuming characteristics of individual based on group membership– E.g., assuming your are nanny because you are
Filipino, – E.g. Assuming non-Whites are not Canadian
citizens or were not born in canada
Examples of Stereotypes
Wong’s Globe & Mail
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• Prejudice– Negative feelings (e.g., dislike) toward someone
because of group they belong to
• Discrimination– Behavior/outcome
What are not stereotypes?
Wong in Globe & Mail; Krauss in NYT
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• Culturally valid characteristics– e.g., collectivism
• Asians score higher (in general) on collectivism,
• Any single Asian may not score higher than a non-Asian on collectivism
• Scores on collectivism can be reliably measured
• Scores on collectivism are related to important other characteristics
What are not stereotypes
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• Negative attitudes • Negative evaluations & feelings
• E.g., Evaluations: They are bad…
• Feelings: I hate..
• Stephan & Stephan 02
– Compare w/Human Rights doc definitions• Racism vs. prejudice has notion of power
• Sociologically based
What is racism/prejudice?
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Negative Associations
Negative Feelings
Positive AssociationsStereotypes
Negative Thoughts
Prejudice
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• A brief history of visible minority groups in Canada
• What will be the nature of Canada’s population?
• Compare & contrast the concepts of – Race– Stereotyping– Prejudice– Discrimination
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