ANT102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dark Skin, Gilgit-Baltistan, Chinese Filipino
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After ww2, after the framing the un declaration of human rights, the concept of race was approached differently: rejects as a significant biological concept. The idea of community is a contested term. Example: gender female or male: citizens vs. aliens/ foreigners. If you are a citizen, you have right. Citizen means that everyone, whether you are rich or poor, is included in the society. And if you are not, you cannot be expected ot be above the law. Segmentary based on the notion of more or less: criteria for determining degrees of closeness. Kinship being one of the most important. How you determine degrees of closeness depends on many things: ie. based on kinship or even by choice: organized by principle of nepotism. Nepotism showing favouritism towards people who are closer to you. In botswana, nepotism is the moral thing to do, here is canada is not important to us.
