Everyone belongs to an ethnic group. There are a wide variety of ethnocultural groups amongst people of African, Asian, European and indigenous North, Central and South American backgrounds in Canada. Focusing primarily on the experiences and achievements of people of Anglo-Saxon and Western European background while minimizing and marginalizing the experiences, contributions, and achievements of people of other origins. A social category used to classify humankind according to common ancestry or descent and reliant upon differentiation by general physical characteristics such as colour of skin, hair texture, and facial features. It is a form of discrimination that is prohibited by the Ontario Human Rights Code.
Harassment can be overt or subtle, intentional or unintentional.
A set of implicit or explicit beliefs, assumptions, and actions based on an ideology of inherent superiority of one racial or ethnic group over another and evident within individual thought or behaviour patterns as well as within organizational or institutional structures and programs. A false or generalized conception of a group of people that results in an unconscious or conscious categorization of each member of that group.