Chapter 6 :
 What’s wrong with race ?
 Ethnic group
 Skin colour is not important because it’s how you respond to the
sun
 Being white/black depends on the shape of your face /nose
/mouth
 In Sudan, people are white because they have the face feature of
a Caucasian person.
 Europeans are the ones who started this ethnic groups because
they thought they were better.
 The way you look defines your ethnic group (Your parents may
be from different ethnic group, but you belong to the one you
look like
 What you share with your ethnic group:
1-Language
2-History
3-Values
4-Territory
5-Religion
6-Phenotype(depends)
 People chose their nicknames not your names
 Nation state : people in a state that have the same language
 In Morocco people’s last name may show to which ethnic group
they belong to but not always because the French named some
of them.
 Druze a religion on Syria [Ismail]
 Hamzah al Tazi, he did missionaries in Iran
 1816, Druze went from Lebanon to Syria(Escaping meranites
from Christian)
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Sultan al alatrachc was Druze (kayjih dak farif al atrach)
Druze were and are still a minority.
Achieved status is not passed on to children
In Morocco we have the status bacha which is not passed to the
children
In Morocco we are not separate , we have the same religion , the
same phenotype.
o 1-Toleration: [A tolerant state] A state that accepts
differences /Ethnic Tolerance
-In Canada French is a minority
-In Morocco Jewish people were a minority that was
accepted for being different.
o 2-Assimilation: To be simal to people who live in a state
[To be like the majority]
o 3-Pluralism: Where they meet and where they exchange in
the market .
-They are different (food / clothes…)
Druse/Allawi’s/Ismail’s/ group that are from different religions,
but they are the same Ethnic group
The minority is treated sonnies (Allawi is a religion from series)
\They believe Ali is more important than Mohammed
In morrocoy they are a dynasty and Syria no
All these minorities are in Syria. They are from the same ethnic
groups; they all speak Arabic (the majority is Sunna)
Armin are easter-orthodox (Christian)
o 4-Multicultiralism: New Zealand/Canada/UK/US/South
africa same state different people(different policies)
o The state policy is unity and division .
-------------------------------------------------------------------o 1-Prejudice: judging someone
 Devaluing a group because of its assumed attributes.
o 2-Stereotype: Generalized statement and belief on a group
 Fixed ideas—often unfavorable—about what
members of a group are like.
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o They are afraid of us (Moroccans) because they think we
are criminals
o 3-Discrimination:
Policies and practices that harm a group and its
members.
1-Dicrimination based on law(partite): Can do it.
2-Illigal discrimination: People can’t do it.
Laws before 1990 that were legal/ white people had privileges
It was legal to discriminate based on colour
From 1948-1990 they kept races separate
They charge rent more to north Africans in France. (it’s illegal)
o Defacto: It’s illegal but there is no law to stop it
State based discrimination:
In Israel there is state based discrimination. [Put you in
dangerous places so that you die (Palestinians and black jews)]
They want Iran to be controlled by the us.
They build settlements in the west bank to force Palestinians to
move.
Palestinians are obliged to move because thy take water from
them.
Discrimination based on rights: take rights from people based
on who they are
In the us they dislike Muslims because they think they are evil
911 incident.
Critical race theory (you are Arab means you are bad 911)
During slavery they chose your religion/last name/The language
you speak…
People in Morocco brought in slaves from north Africa
White people feel guilty for what they did in the past that’s why
they teach the wrong history (or not all the truth ).
What did the us do to the Japanese?
Us put the Japanese in camps to monitor them (because they
afraid of them)
Us does not understand the culture of the Japanese
 They teach Moroccans in history books what they want .
 Results of discrimination:
1-Genocide
the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or
ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.
2-forced assimilation
an involuntary process of cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic
minority groups during which they are forced to adopt language,
identity, norms, mores, customs, traditions, values, mentality,
perceptions, way of life, and often religion and ideology of established
and generally larger ...
3-Ethnic cleansing: Force a population out.
the mass expulsion or killing of members of one ethnic or religious
group in an area by those of another.
4-Colonization:
a country forces it’s law ,traditions on a country
5-Culutral colonization
the extension of colonial state power through cultural knowledge,
activities, and institutions (particularly education and media) or the
systematic subordination of one conceptual framework or cultural
identity over others.
 Example of cultural colonisation: Moroccans like Americans,
they dress, eat … like them.
 Muslims were forced to leave by Serbians.
 Population changed between 1920 , Greeks were forced to go
back to Greece , and Turkish were forced to go back to
Natolia(turkey).
 We are influenced by the Americans (western countries), we
dress, eat, even talk like them[cultural colonization].