SYG 2000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Neocolonialism, Knowledge Economy, Islamic Fundamentalism
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Human-crated or constructed categories that have cone to assume great social importance. The ideas people share about reave that they believe to be so obvious that they don not even think to question their validity. Consists of people who share, believe they share, or are believed by others to share a national origin, common ancestry, place of birth, or distinctive social traits. A selective forgetting process in which people forget, dismiss, or fail to pass on a connection to one or more ethnicities. **ethnic renewal occurs when someone discovers an ethnic identity** A sense of self that is based on no awareness of an ethnic identity because its culture is considered normal, normative, or mainstream. **(cid:448)isi(cid:271)le i(cid:374) people(cid:859)s (cid:272)lai(cid:373)s that the(cid:455) are (cid:373)erel(cid:455) (cid:862)a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)(cid:863) ** A situation where a government or other dominant group creates an umbrella ethnic category and assigns people from many different countries and cultures to it.
