Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Today we discussed what reasonable accommodation means in relation to people. Below are the notes from today. Also, the students had to read pages 119 to 131 and answer the following questions fully:

1. Define the term cultural contacts
2. Define depopulation
3. An examplle oc cultural contact from your text is the Beothuk's contact with European cultures. Where were teh Beothuk located in North America?
4. What were some causes of Beothuk depopulation?
5. How did cultural contact affect Potlatch societies?
6. Briefly describe a potlatch ceremony
7. Where in North America did potlatch ceremonies take place?
8. How did European contact change the potlatch ceremony economically?
9. What reasons are suggested for the banning of the potlatch ceremonies?
10. Nigeria was created by Europeans (the British) in order to create an easily administered area. Several groups lived in these arbitrary borders and a few years after Nigeria was granted its independence in 1960 a civil war broke out amongst these people. What effect might colonialism have had in the cause of the Nigerian civil war?
11. Your textbook discusses the Sudan (p 129-131). What parallels might there be between Nigeria and teh Sudan in terms of lasting effects of colonialsm?
Reasonable accommodations:
o In the context of globalization, reasonable accommodation is when a society gives the right to equality and protection against discrimination to all people within that society.
o Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms demands that accommodation be made to various ethnic minorities.
o This means: anti-discrimination laws…
Some of the following could be discriminated against (class created)
· Immigrants
· Those not of the official languages or not of the language of the region
Race
· Culture
· the elderly
· Those of certain religions
· Those with health issues
· Teenage moms/pregnant
· Caste (social standing)
· The poor
· Those with physical disabilities
· Sexual orientation
· Appearance (short….)
· Aboriginals
· Priests/politicians/personalities
· Age
· Mentally handicapped
· Learning disability
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