SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cultural Pluralism, War Crime, Cultural Identity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

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Internal extermination of all members of a minority group. No one knows how to define it. As soon as you define it the government has to intervene, this requires. It is the most heinous thing a nation can do resources. Force a minority to leave the country or confines them to a particular location. Right now there is a massive exodus of syrians. Formal physical or social separation of dominant and minority groups. Minority group sheds it"s differences and assumes the traits of the dominant group. Minority groups retain their cultural identities and the larger society promotes cultural, ethnic and racial diversity. By the 1960s most former colonies had gained political independence, however there was a continued dependence on western countries. Neo- colonialism has become known as the continuation of western colonialism by not only economic and political but also cultural. The dominance of western multinationals (mcdonald"s homogeneity, plundering of resources, sweatshops, export of western values and cultures,