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Structural Racism Analysis

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Most individuals today would not argue the occurrence of a certain group of folk is biologically inferior in each differing nation. This biological racism has increasingly become a well-known and documented type of racism; structural racism. This is supplanted in a form of social and cultural racism that magnifies superior groups’ way of life and assumptions about the world and is defined as “the allowance of one to focus on the way discrimination is built into systems of power and institutions (Frideres and Gadacz, 12) Structural racism manifests itself in different ways which Canada is solemnly subject to. In Canada’s attempts to respond to past mass harms conducted by their country, the Canadian government adopts an approach that is unsuccessful

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