Unsettling Societies Chp.4 & 6

Canada’s development of its settler society was evolved through many different causes one being that Britain socially constructed and developed what is Canada. Canada was socially constructed into what we refer to ‘white settler society’. Much of the British ideas were brought over including the white privilege into Canada. As immigration became to settle in Canada the British were by far less. As diversity came to increase in Canada racial and ethnic hierarchy was socially constructed. Indigenous settlers became to lessen by the fact that they started to blend in being that they were mixed blood. Not only that but as time passed women’s power did not exist within the strong masculine political elite causing and giving the male privilege automatically.

In the next chapter moving to Mexico, I learned that much of what Mexico was formed by was by descendants of various different indigenous cultural groups. Before the arrival of the Europeans, Mexico consisted of 20 million different cultures that were politically organized. Yet the governance of each of these groups fell into the destruction of the incoming European system. As the conquistadors came in much of the indigenous civilians became acute and their population was lessened. Many of these Indian women were disrespected and were targets of male domination. Women were treated unfairly by the men whether they were Indian or black they were pretty much used by the male dominant power. As women came to be in the work force they were also unrecognized and were paid extremely less than the male gender. The maquiladoras which is an industry in which many immigrant females work with in has been an investment of the North American part. They are expected to work yet receive a very low income making the maquiladora industry powerful showing within these immigrant females a clear view of the racial division within women till this day.