Anthro 100 - Chapter 17

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Assimilation

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Minority group adopts the patterns and norms of a dominant host culture. No longer exists as a separate cultural unit.

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Cultural Colonialism

Back 2

Within a nation or empire, domination by one ethnic group or nationality and its culture/ideology over others

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Descent

Back 3

Rule assigning social identity on the basis of some aspect of one's ancestry

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Discrimination

Back 4

Policies and practices that harm a group and its members.
- De facto discrimination: practiced but not legally sanctioned
- De jure discrimination: part of law

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Ethnic Group

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Members share certain beliefs, values, customs, and norms because of common background

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Ethnicity

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Identification with, and feeling part of, an ethnic group and exclusion from certain other groups because of this affiliation.

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Ethnocide

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Destruction by a dominant group of the culture of an ethnic group

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Genocide

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Deliberate elimination of group through mass murder.

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Hypodescent

Back 9

A rule that automatically places the children of a union or mating between members of different socioeconomic groups in the minority group

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Majority Groups

Back 10

Superordinate, dominant, or controlling groups

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Minority Groups

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Subordinate groups with less power and less secure access to resources than majority groups

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Multiculturalism

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View of cultural diversity in a country as something good and desirable

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Nation

Back 13

Independant, centrally organized political unit or a government

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Nation-state

Back 14

Autonomous (not controlled by outside forces), centrally organized political entity. Most are not ethnically homogenous.

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Nationalities

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Ethnic groups that had or wish to have/regain, autonomous political status (their own country)

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Phenotype

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Physical traits.

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Plural Society (Barth)

Back 17

A society that combines ethnic contrasts, ecological specialization, and the economic interdependance of groups

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Prejudice

Back 18

Devaluation of group because of assumed behaviour, values, capabilities, or attributes

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Race

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An ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis

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Racism

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Discrimination against an ethnic group assumed to have a biological basis.

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Refugees

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People who have been forced (involuntary refugees) or who have chosen (voluntary refugees) to flee a country, to escape persecution or war.

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Stereotypes

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Fixed, often unfavorable ideas about what the members of a group are like.

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Burakumin

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- Not us "race" in Japan
- descendants of historically low-status social class
- physically and genetically indistinguishable from the majority of Japanese
- Discrimination against burakumin strikingly like discrimination against blacks in the U.S.

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Race in Brazil

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- Lacks hypodescent rule
- More than 500 distinct racial labels
- Racial labels shift
- Based on phenotypes

If you get a tan, you're race changes

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Forced assimilation

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Forcing an ethnic group to adopt the culture of a dominant group
- Cultural colonialism

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Ethnic Expulsion

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Removal of groups that are culturally different from a country

May create refugees

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The Basques

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- Linguistically unique group in Pyrenees Mountains between France and Spain
- One of Europe's most distinctive ethnic groups
- Historically farmers, herders, and fishers