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Canadian Multiculturalism

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Canadian Multiculturalism

What is is?

Urban Youth

School, Community, Opportunities, Engagement, Equity, Justice

Diverse, Imperial, or Invisible?

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  • Lack of Studies of Ethnicity
  • Non-English Background
  • Non-English Speakers
  • Racism

Intercultural vs. Multicultural

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Mont-Saint-Gregoire Sugarhouse

How does media portray other cultures in our society?
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Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug

The First Nation Community
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Identity

Bicultural Identities

A sense of being strongly rooted in two cultures
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Study of second-generation Indo-Canadian youth

  • Zone of proximal development
  • Lifelong process
  • Opportunity to create

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Active Communities vs. Minority

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Sri Lankan Tamils

Second Generation

Jewish & Greek

Minorities in Halifax

Symbolic Ethnicity

Ethnic identity based on emotional connection to a real/imagined past

Finnish-Canadians

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Institutional Completeness

ability to live full life within own cultural enclave
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Transnationalism

Connecting with relatives to maintain ethnic identity

Migration

  • Caribbean Migrants
  • Diplomats, academic, gov't workers
  • First World Service Worker

TO WHAT EXTENT DOES MULTICULTURISM WORK?

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Thank you for Listening

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