APA 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Wasn, Wield, Desegregation

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 1302
• Professor: Michael Robidoux

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1. canada proclaims to be a multicultural nation supporting the freedom and rights of minority peoples (multiculturalism act 1988) 3. chapter refers to it as a chowder and stubborn chunks , but cultural mosaic is more common metaphor. 4. assimilation: when minority groups adopt characteristics of the dominant culture notice difference from text (minority groups instead of immigrants and dominant versus host) U of ottawa professor claude denis offers the terms whitestream which means (canadian) society is structured on the basis of european white experiences. Sport and leisure is often been studied in canada as either assimilatory or in resistance to the whitestream. Prior to thinking about these important questions about the intersections of race/ethnicity it"s important to understand what each means. Race refers to a category of people regarded as socially distinct because they share genetic traits believed to be important by people with power and influence in society.