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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What year was Africvlle established? | 1848 |
| Where was Africville located? | North of halifax on Bedford Basin. |
| As Halifax grew, what did it start using Africville for? | Sewage and garbage disposal, industry, and railroads. |
| What happened to Africville? | The city of halifax decided to demolish it and move the residents of Africville somehweres else in Halifax. |
| Wheh ws the first house of Africvilles demolished? | 1964, and by 1970 Africville was totally gone. |
| What is culture? | A reflection of who and what we are. |
| What is cultural diversity? | Variety and dfferences among cultures. |
| What are traditions? | Customs, beliefs, opinions, and stories passed down from one generation to another. |
| What are rites? | Ceremonies that are a part of traditional culture. |
| What is mainstream culture? | The general culture of the majority of the people. |
| What are institutions? | Organizations with social, educational, and religious purposes. |
| What are formal groups? | Organized groups that contribute to a culture. |
| What are informal groups? | Groups of people who meet casually for a common purpose. |
| What is material culture? | The physical objects produced and/or used by a society. |
| What is non-material culture? | Things in a culture that aren't physical. |
| What are anthropologists? | People who study human cultural characteristics. |
| What are values? | Ideas, beliefs, and ways ofbehaving that are valuable or important to people of a particular culture. |
| What is popular culture? | Culture shared by many groups in western society, and around the world. |
| What are emotional needs? | Need that are not physical such as love, friendship, safety. |
| What is socialization? | The process of learning the behaviour that is considered suitable in your culture. |
| What are physical needs? | Human needs for things that sustain life such as food, water, shelter. |
| What is traditional culture? | Customs, beliefs, opinions, and stories passed down in a culture from one generation to anoher. |
| What in non-material culture? | Things in a culture such as religion, beliefs, spoken language, and stories. |
| What is cotributing culture? | Cultures os smaller groups of people within the mainstream culture. |
| What is microcosm? | A miniture model of the society around you. |
| What is the popular culture cycle? | Mass Production-Mass Distribution-Mass Communication-Mass Consumption |
| What is mass production? | The companycomes up with a product and makesit. It is produced in large companies, and it must be catchy. |
| What is mass distribution? | The product is sent around the wrld to major retailers. It has to be made known to the suppliers, and the retailers must be able to access the product easily. |
| What is mass communication? | Get the word out about the product though commercials, newspaper, magazines, word of mouth or the internt. They need to think of a catchy slogan that attracts attention. |
| What is mass comsumption? | When people buy the product and use it. The product becomes popular and people want more of it. Money is made and invested in the product. |
| What are refugees? | People who have had to flee their homes because they are in danger as a result of their race, religion or political beliefs or as a result of natural disaster. |
| What are immigrants? | Peopl who leave their country for various reasons and settle in another country. |
| What is a linguistic group? | A group of people who share a common language. |
| What is an ethnic group? | A group of people who share a racial background. |
| What is a religious group? | A groups of people who share a common religion. |
| What is a cultural group? | A group of people who share a common culture. |
| What is multicultural? | Encouraging contributing cultures to maintain their identities while still participating in the economic, political, and social life of society. |
| What doea assimilate mean? | To become absorbed in the mainstream of culture. |
| What is prejudice? | A view based on previously held ideas, rather than on knowledge or experience. |
| What is racism? | Mistreatment of people based on their race, place of origin, or ancestry. |
| What is a stereotype? | An iage that represents all members of a group as being the same. |
| What does discriminate mean? | To treat a particular group or member of a particular group unfairly. |
| What is a satire? | The use of sarcasm or wit to expose silly or illogical things that people say or do. |
| What are two things that are inherited. | Eye color, and height. |
| How does forced assimilation affect cultures? | It affects their relationships. Communication would probably be lacking and the level of trust would go down between cultures. |
| Who is Rita Joe? | She is a woman whow as born in Whycocomagh, and spent her early life in foster homes. |
| Why did Rita Joe put herself into the Shubenacadie Residential School? | To get away from one of her foster families. |
| What is the purpose of Rita Joes writing? | The purpose was to encourage other Mi'kmaq's to educate themselves in traditional ways, and shows canadian society how forced assimilation harmed membrs of her culture. |
| Why is Rita Joe well known? | Because she was awarde the order of canada for her efforts in 1990. |
| What was Rita Joes poem "I lost my talk" about? | How she went to the residential school and wasnt aloud to speak her language and how they "took her culture away from her" because they were more powerful. |
| What is the holocaust an extreme example of? | Racism and hatred. |
| What did the British give the Mi'kmaq to try and kill them off? | Blankets infected with smallpox. |
| What does the Dartmouth Multicultural Festival celebrate? | Diversity |
| What are three ways to respond to racism? | Institutional response, a personal response, and a community response. |
| What is an example os a satire? | This hour has 2 minutes. |
| What are oral traditions? | The use of storytelling to pass down history, morals, and lessons learned over time from one generation to another. |
| What are modern legends? | Stories about ordinary people, often in urban settings, describing events that are unusual, but could- in theory- happen. |
| What is folk art? | Paintings and other artistic work done by untrained artists, usually depicting everyday life in a simple, direct style. |
| What dothe initials ECMA stand for? | East Cost Music Awards. |
| Who organized the ECMA's? | Robert Cohn |
| What is the "fifth region", inaddition to th four atlantic provinces that Robert Cohn includes with the "five diverse regions"? | Cape Breton |
| What year did the ECMA's begin? | 1989 |
| How has the ECMA's enhanced Atlantic Canada's music? | By exposing musicians, being promoted, and getting record labels. |
| What is storytelling? | A form of entertainment. |
| Who is Lucy Maud Montgomery? | She is known worldwide, especially for her book Anne of Green Gables. |
| What impact has Lucy Maud Montgomery's work had on PEI? | She has become a cultural icon, and in the last decade, tourism has replaced fishing as the second mainstay of PEI's economy. |
| Why are Lucy Maud Montgmery's books still popular after being written 100 years ago? | Because she wrote about all about PEI and its environment, and people were inspired by it and was passed down through generations. |
| What are the the economic "spin-offs" from the books of Lucy Maud Montgomery? | Movies, hats, dolls, china, diaries, and touing "Green Gables" |
| What is a cultural icon? | A symbol that represents a place or the type of culture in that place. |
| What was the resettlement program in Newfoundland? | Where the government decided to resettle people from their communities into more urban centres because the community changed so much. |
| What are petroglyphs? | Rock drawings |
| How did Allan Syliboy use traditional culture to produce modern fashions? | By drawing |
| What kind of artist was Gerald Squires? | Fine art |
| Why did th government resettle the people from NFLD? | Because offshore trawlers had replaced small-boat operators. |
| What are Canadas three levels of government? | Federal, Provincial, and Municipa. |
| What is federal? | Deals with concerns of the whole country. |
| What is Provincial? | Deals with concerns of a province or territory. |
| What is municipal? | Deals with local county. |
| Canada is a democracy. What does this mean? | It means a government for the people and chosen by the people. They get to elect people for the positions in fedral, provincial, and municipal governments. |
| What people can't vote? | Criminals or people in jail, and people with a mental disability. |
| Where is the federal government located? | Ottawa |
| What is another word for Municipal government? | Local councils. |
| What does MP stand for ? | MP stands for Members of Parliament. |
| What is the MP's job? | They are representatives elected to the federal level of government. |
| What does MLA stand for? | Members of the Legislative Assembly. |
| What is the MLA's job? | Representatives to the provincial legislatures. |
| What are the four political parties of Canada? | PC, NDP, Liberal, and Bloc Quebecois |
| What is the leader of the winning political party in the province called? | Premier |
| Before Canada was a country, what was it called? | British North America |
| What were people called who lived in Canada when it was called British North America? | Colonists |
| What were three things that drew the people of British North America together, and eventually created the country Canada? | The railway, trading between colonies ($$), and the colonists were afraid that the USA might invade from the south. |
| How long can a Prime Minister or Premier wait to call an election? | No longer than 5 years. |
| Was voting always a secret process in Canada? | No, it only became secret in 1874. |
| What happens if a politician makes certain promises to get elected and then goes back on them? | They have a chance at notbeing re-elected in the next election. |
| Where did the ballot originate? | Ancient Athens |
| Was the ballot always a piece of paper? | No, it used to be pottery clay. |
| What are issues that divide Canadians? | Missle Defense, war in Iraq, Peace keeping missions, gay marriage, abortion, quebec seperation, western seperation, kyoto debate. |
| What are issues that unite Canadians? | Gas prices, one ton challenge, hockey, olympics coming to canada, the vote. |
| What are issues that divide atlantic canadians? | ATV laws, out migration, equalization payments,strip mining. |
| What are issues that unite atlantic canadians? | Tar ponds, Industries-fishing, tourism. |
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