Exploitation What is significant about periods of innovation
+ Exploitation What is significant about periods of innovation and exploration?
+ Reflective Thinking Step 1: Read and reflect on the statements below. Your responses will be private. This is a thought exercise. For each statement, make a ✔ if you can relate to the statement and an ✖ if you cannot relate to the statement. ____ 1. I can if I wish arrange to be in the company of people of my race most of the time. ____ 2. If I should need to move, I can be pretty sure of renting or purchasing housing in an area which I can afford and in which I would want to live ____ 3. I can be pretty sure that my neighbours in such a location will be neutral or pleasant to me. ____ 4. I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed. ____ 5. I can turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of my race widely represented. ____ 6. When I am told about our national heritage or about “civilization, ” I am shown that people of my color made it what it is. ____ 7. I can be sure that my children will be taught in school about the history of their race. ____ 9. I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods which fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser’s shop and find someone who can cut my hair. ____ 12. I can swear, or dress in second hand clothes, or not answer letters, without having people attribute these choices to the bad morals, the poverty, or the illiteracy of my race. Source: https: //www. uakron. edu/dot. Asset/1662103. pdf
+ What is exploitation? People Resources Why does exploitation happen?
+ Vocabulary Power § Noun: “the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. ” Privilege § Noun: “a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group of people. ” Discrimination • Noun: “prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, esp. on the grounds of race, age, or sex. ”
+ Exploitation Why does exploitation happen? Power Imbalance + Discrimination
+ Exploitation
+ Understanding Power, Privilege and Exploitation 1. We started with thinking about our own experiences with power and privilege. The “invisible backpack” of privilege we may, in some ways, carry through our lives. 3. And lastly, think about power, privilege and exploitation with the European Explorers, in the past. 2. We will move next to thinking about power, privilege and exploitation today.
+ "It was a dodgy deal, but I thought: it's only two months. The money was good, and I needed it, " said Matic, an unemployed 41 -year-old from the western Serbian town of Sabac. “I worked from early in the morning until 2 a. m. the next day. . . I was so exhausted, but I was still required to go to work as usual the next day. ” - 13 -year-old girl making stationery for the Beijing Olympics in China
+ Power, Exploitation and the European Explorers 1 - Use of Land Resources The Fur Trade Mercantilism
+ Power, Exploitation and the European Explorers 2 - Taking “Ownership” of Land Naming Places Political Boundaries
+ Power, Exploitation and the European Explorers 3 - Treatment of Non. Europeans Transatlantic Slave Trade
+ Power, Exploitation and the European Explorers 3 - Treatment of Non. Europeans Isolation Assimilation
+ Exploitation What forms of exploitation existed in the past (time) involving European Explorers(place)? § Social § Political § Economic Why does exploitation happen? Power Imbalance + Discrimination
+ Exploitation 1. Why is it important as a student of social studies in Canada (place) in the 21 st Century (time) to be aware of exploitation? 2. What can we do when we recognise exploitation is present?
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