What is racism?
To distinguish a race as inferior or superior to another race or races.
What is prejudice?
Forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts of a case. (ideas in our heads)
What is discrimination?
The unfair treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, gender or sex. (actions)
What is systemic discrimination?
Describes a system that favours one or some groups over others in terms of hiring, benefits, promotions, and pay increases
What is systemic racism?
Discrimination based on a sense of racial superiority is a part of the philosophy and practices of a country, institution, or a whole society
What is a stereotype?
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.
What is genocide?
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
What is antisemitism?
Particular form of individual or systemic discrimination directed against Jewish people
What is ageism?
unfair treatment of people because of their age.
What is ableism?
unfair treatment of people because of their level of ability. Discrimination in favour of able bodied people.
What is trans misogyny?
the negative attitudes, expressed through cultural hate, individual and state violence, and discrimination directed toward trans women and trans and gender non-conforming people on the feminine end of the gender spectrum.
What are the causes of Prejudice connected to ignorance?
- Modelling/Socialization - We copy attitudes we see
- In-Groups and out-Groups – In-group we belong to, out-group we don’t belong to
- Behavioural Conditioning - Bad behaviour rewarded
- Scapegoating - Redirect frustration onto something else
Causes of Prejudice connected to fear?
- Memory availability/stereotyping - remember vivid incidents and transfer impressions to an entire group of people
- Inferiority - If we feel inferior (less than), putting down another group helps us raise own self-image
What is privilege?
A social theory where special rights or advantages are available only to a particular person/group
What are microaggressions?
brief verbal, behavioural, or environmental treatments that communicate negative racial slights towards people of colour
What is a hate crime?
people being the target of violence solely because of who they are. Can be physical attacks, threats, verbal abuse and vandalism
What are the characteristics of hate crimes?
- intense and impersonal hatred
- Hatred based on prejudice and power
- Frustration centred hatred being directed at scapegoats
- Genocide is an example of national hatred
What is Cultural Appropriation?
- The act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, without showing that you respect the culture
- also refers to a power dynamic where members of a dominant culture take elements from a culture of people who have been systematically oppressed by that dominant group
What is Assimilation?
A process where members of an ethnic minority group lose cultural characteristics that distinguish them from the dominant cultural group or take on the cultural characteristics of another group.
What is trafficking?
Trafficking is the forced labour of people taken out of their normal community and manipulated to be exploited.
How has globalization contributed to human trafficking?
Globalization has led to increased unemployment and low wages which leads to rise in completion amongst corporations for low prices which increases the demand for cheap child labour.
What are the different rights and charters we learned in class?
- The Ontario Human Rights Code (protects people from discrimination)
- The Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights (right to participate in certain government decisions affecting the environment)
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (limit government powers to protect the people of Canada)
- The Geneva Convention (Reduce suffering in war by creating international rules)
- The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (rights every child has and what governments must do to protect them)
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Fundamental human rights that are used universally)
What are the different types of literacy?
- Prose literacy: knowledge and skills needed to understand and use information from texts
- Document literacy: knowledge and skills required to locate and use information contained in various formats
- Quantitative literacy: knowledge and skills required to apply arithmetic operations to numbers embedded in printed materials
