As an Exercise in His Sociology Class, Andrew Records the Ethnic

question 83

Multiple Choice

As an exercise in his sociology class, Andrew records the ethnic backgrounds of his five closest friends and then asks his parents and grandparents to do the same. He discovers that all are of the same ethnicity as he is. How would the textbook explain this finding?

• A) active racism on the part of Andrew and his family
• B) a legacy of internal colonialism
• C) the lack of non-white immigration in Canada historically
• D) the current lack of diversity in Canada

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Definitions:

Ethnocentrism

The act of judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture.

Culture

The cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

Logical

Pertaining to clear, structured, and rational thinking or reasoning.

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