Geography 2411F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Embeddedness, Social Integration, Gr 5
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Cultural identity, the residential schools and the truth and reconciliation commission of. Shaped by common ideals and social norms (rules, behaviours, and expectations for living and belonging with others. Social norms are practiced through good and bed behaviours: beliefs, gender, nationality, place, race, ethnicity, contextual/ relational -> family, extracurriculars, eg. Belonging is the social processes of everyday life that promote belonging. Embeddedness within a context: ever day life activates. Effects sustained contact with an external society of different cultural norms and practices. The impact of passive cultural change can occur in any society: eg. How knowledge and practices show up in other places. Indirect from of environmental dispossession: forced cultural change. Mandated and regulated by the federal government: operated fro(cid:373) (cid:1005)88(cid:1004)(cid:859)s 1996 by protestant, catholic, presbyterian and anglican missionaries. 150,000 first nations, inuit and metis students: 80,000 survives today. Assumption: aboriginal cultures and spiritual beliefs were inferior add unequal.