Racial stratification to be specific exists for various of reasons. It has been prevalent in Canadian history for centuries. History has created the existence of racial stratification and has left impression on how we view race. The ideology of racial stratification first begun during the time period when the black population was being used as slaves. It was highly profitable and economically favourable to attain slaves (Robbins et al. 2017,194). Also this was a great advantage to civilians who did not have to compete with others who were looked upon as legally and socially secured (194). Evidently racial stratification has been predominant from the early stages of history. Another reason why Canadian individuals believe racial stratification
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It is significant and important aspect to how one presents themselves. Living in Canada I am fortunate to be part of a community that is welcoming and open minded to millions of immigrants. Around the globe Canada is known as multicultural country and not surprisingly ranked the fourth most welcoming country to refugee (Keung 2016,2). Being Canadian born and raised I have been fortunate to not have experienced discrimination towards my skin complexion. However, my parents both of them being immigrants have dealt with a great deal of discrimination due to their race. Like many other immigrants my parents had high sets of hopes and achievements. They were overjoyed that they had an opportunity to succeed as it was impossible to do so in their home country. My parents also came with a mindset that “white” people or individuals with fairer skin had superiority over people of colour which is an example of how racial stratification has been instilled in them from their third world country. My mother is well educated women who has an extensive passion for sciences. Coming to Canada she decided to further pursue her education and complete remaining credits in order to become a pharmaceutical chemist. Surely, this came with other responsibilities that she had to juggle like taking care of my sister and I, cooking,cleaning, dealing with immigration papers etc. Her work ethic was immensely strong and would be great benefit to many companies. However, during many interviews she was dominated by candidates who spoke fluent English but still had the same credentials as my mother and less experience. But my mother noticed that she was not attaining jobs for the sole purpose that she had an accent. She observed that she was not given the chance to completely answer her the questions to her full potential. In actuality, she had perfect English where majority of people could understand every word but was getting
It is significant and important aspect to how one presents themselves. Living in Canada I am fortunate to be part of a community that is welcoming and open minded to millions of immigrants. Around the globe Canada is known as multicultural country and not surprisingly ranked the fourth most welcoming country to refugee (Keung 2016,2). Being Canadian born and raised I have been fortunate to not have experienced discrimination towards my skin complexion. However, my parents both of them being immigrants have dealt with a great deal of discrimination due to their race. Like many other immigrants my parents had high sets of hopes and achievements. They were overjoyed that they had an opportunity to succeed as it was impossible to do so in their home country. My parents also came with a mindset that “white” people or individuals with fairer skin had superiority over people of colour which is an example of how racial stratification has been instilled in them from their third world country. My mother is well educated women who has an extensive passion for sciences. Coming to Canada she decided to further pursue her education and complete remaining credits in order to become a pharmaceutical chemist. Surely, this came with other responsibilities that she had to juggle like taking care of my sister and I, cooking,cleaning, dealing with immigration papers etc. Her work ethic was immensely strong and would be great benefit to many companies. However, during many interviews she was dominated by candidates who spoke fluent English but still had the same credentials as my mother and less experience. But my mother noticed that she was not attaining jobs for the sole purpose that she had an accent. She observed that she was not given the chance to completely answer her the questions to her full potential. In actuality, she had perfect English where majority of people could understand every word but was getting