Question

Sociology: Identify and describe Genocide, Population Transfer, Internal Colonism, Segregation, Assimilation, and Multicultrualism of minority and dominant group relations.

Answer 1

Genocide

The attempt to destroy a group of people because of their presumed race or ethnicity.

Population Transfer

1: Indirect is achieved by making life so miserable for members of a minority that they leave "voluntarily" 2: Direct occurs when a dominant group expels a minority

Internal Colonialism

Describe the way in which a country's dominant group exploits minority groups for its economic advantage

Segregation

The separation of racial or ethnic groups

Assimilation

The process by which a minority group is absorbed into the mainstream culture

Multiculturalism

a.k.a. pluralism; permits or even encourages racial-ethnic variation