Exists when disadvantaged communities and designated group members share power and decision-making at all levels in projects, programs and institutions. Technically, people who have moved to a country with the intention of settling. Not synonymous with refugees. In Canada, racially visible people are often assumed to be immigrants. North American Indian is more acceptable, but the preferred terms are Native person or aboriginal person.
Indigenous person is best, but is nt commonly used.
The term may connote inferior social position, or may refer to a group, which is small in number. A policy introduced by the federal government in 1971, which acknowledges that many ethnic Canadians experience unequal access to resources and opportunities. It urges more recognition of the contributions of such Canadians, the preservation of certain expressions of their ethnicity, and more equity in the treatment of all Canadians. How one individual or group is dominated by another, more powerful individual or group through physical, psychological, social or economic threats or force, and frequently by an ideology of dominance. A term applied to people who are black, Chinese, south Asian, southeast Asian, Filipino and Latin American.