SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: First Nations, Institutional Racism, Thomas Theorem
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Real in its consequences: thomas theorem: if men and women define situations as real they are real in their consequence. If we as a community cam e to conclusion that one people have tendency to be liars it wouldn"t matter if that"s true or not, we should still that blond people as untrustworthy, they start to believe it themselves. Consequences of distinction and evaluations related to race and ethnicity: canadian history discrimination and justification of abuses, ideas of innate differences and important differences between ethnicity. European are superior to others, and justify mistreatment of other groups: colonialism: first nations and cultural genocide, purposeful attempt to erase a culture. Part of this was justified by saying their culture was inferior. Head tax: chinese canadians after they built key infrastructure, rail roads, Charge on any chinese to immigrate, 50 dollars to 100 dollars to stop them from entering canada.
