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16 Cards in this Set
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Culture
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The behaviours, beliefs and characteristics for a certain ethnic, social or age group
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Beliefs
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The confidence in something that is not apparenet or proved (can't hold it in your hand)
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Values
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The importance of something to someone, something that you practice
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Characteristics of a Culture
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Languages, Location, Practices and Government
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The Royal Commission of Bilingualism and Biculturalism
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The evaluation of the equal use of French and English in Canada because of the restless Quebecers
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The Official Languages Act
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Declares French and English as the official languages of Canada
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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
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Applies to anyone on Canadian soil, the list of freedoms and rights everyone in Canada has. The government reserves the right to override some of them
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Migration
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Systematic movements of people in a country
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Immigration
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Introduction of new people into a population
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Emigration
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Leaving one country to go to another
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Push-Pull Theory
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Why someone would leave their country to move into another one e.g. reasons to come and reasons to go (Ellis Island)
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Accomodation
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People change their behaviours in order to be more helpful to others (e.g. saying "soccer" instead of "football")
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Integration
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Sharing between two cultures
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Assimilation
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Making everything similar - globalization
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Acculturation
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an adaptation of several cultures into one but not completely abandoning the original
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Marginalization
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Pushing someone to the margins of society socially because of their differences
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