GEOG 1HA3 Lecture 12: Lecture 12 - October 23, 2017
20 Dec 2017
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Citizenship: citizens of canada are canadians - this is our nationality. Identity: many canadians also identify themselves as belonging to an ethnicity or an ethnic group. In the 2011 census, people were to provide the origin of their ancestry. Ethnicity: an individual"s affiliation with a group whose racial, cultural, religious or linguistic characteristics, or national origins distinguish it from the rest of the population. Ethnic group: a group whose members perceive themselves as different from others because of a common ancestry and/or shared culture. Examples: african, english, korean, japanese, chinese, somali. Linked to ancestors and to specific cultural traditions. Ethnicity (& ethnic groups) is inherently spatial. We can see the spatial manifestation of ethnicity (& ethnic groups) in many ways. Ethnicity is a key part of individual and group identity. Ethnicity, religion and language: mechanisms through which culture is expressed. E. g. the cultural landscape (how they are dressed is symbolic of their cultural landscape)
