CRRF Glossary

Title	Definition
Intercultural Communication	Information exchange wherein the sender and receiver are of different cultural, ethnic or linguistic backgrounds.
Internalized Dominance	Incorporation of superiority and dominance, and the social interaction that results.
Internalized Oppression	Patterns of mistreatment of racialized groups and acceptance of the negative messages of the dominant group become established in their cultures and members assume roles as victims.
Intersectionality	The experience of the interconnected nature of ethnicity, race, creed, etc., (cultural, institutional and social), and the way they are imbedded within existing systems such that they define how one is valued.
Intolerance	BBigotry or narrow mindedness which results in refusal to respect or acknowledge persons of different racial backgrounds.
Inuit	Aboriginal peoples in Northern Canada who live above the tree line in the Northwest Territories, Northern Quebec and Labrador. The word means “People” in the Inuit language - Inuktitut. The Inuit is one of the cultural groups comprising Aboriginal peoples of Canada.
Islamophobia	A term recently coined to refer to expressions of fear and negative stereotypes, bias or acts of hostility towards the religion of Islam and individual Muslims.
Majority	Refers to the group of people within society either largest in number, in a superior social position, or that successfully shapes or controls other groups through social, economic, cultural, political, military or religious power.
Marginalization	With reference to race and culture, the experience of persons outside the dominant group who face barriers to full and equal participating members of society. Refers also to the process of being “left out” of or silenced in a social group.
Mediation	The intervention into a dispute or negotiation of an acceptable impartial and neutral third party who has no authoritative decision-making power, to reach voluntarily and acceptable settlement of issues in dispute. In a race relations context, its aim is to reach a signed agreement setting out specific steps to be taken by each side to restore social harmony and peaceful relations.

Intercultural Communication

Information exchange wherein the sender and receiver are of different cultural, ethnic or linguistic backgrounds.

Internalized Dominance

Incorporation of superiority and dominance, and the social interaction that results.

Internalized Oppression

Patterns of mistreatment of racialized groups and acceptance of the negative messages of the dominant group become established in their cultures and members assume roles as victims.

Intersectionality

The experience of the interconnected nature of ethnicity, race, creed, etc., (cultural, institutional and social), and the way they are imbedded within existing systems such that they define how one is valued.

Intolerance

BBigotry or narrow mindedness which results in refusal to respect or acknowledge persons of different racial backgrounds.

Inuit

Aboriginal peoples in Northern Canada who live above the tree line in the Northwest Territories, Northern Quebec and Labrador. The word means “People” in the Inuit language - Inuktitut. The Inuit is one of the cultural groups comprising Aboriginal peoples of Canada.

Islamophobia

A term recently coined to refer to expressions of fear and negative stereotypes, bias or acts of hostility towards the religion of Islam and individual Muslims.

Majority

Refers to the group of people within society either largest in number, in a superior social position, or that successfully shapes or controls other groups through social, economic, cultural, political, military or religious power.

Marginalization

With reference to race and culture, the experience of persons outside the dominant group who face barriers to full and equal participating members of society. Refers also to the process of being “left out” of or silenced in a social group.

Mediation

The intervention into a dispute or negotiation of an acceptable impartial and neutral third party who has no authoritative decision-making power, to reach voluntarily and acceptable settlement of issues in dispute. In a race relations context, its aim is to reach a signed agreement setting out specific steps to be taken by each side to restore social harmony and peaceful relations.