Multiculturalism

A Little History of Canada by H.V. Nelles gives a concise and relatively basic view on Canadian History that would be an excellent starting point for anyone looking to learn about Canadian History. At 268 pages A Little History is short and engaging enough to keep the attention of readers who may want to gain more knowledge about the history of Canada without having to read more dry scholarly articles or long drawn out history books. This is especially important as the tone of the book suggests…

Multicultural sensitivity is critical in today's workforce environment. It influences how employees interact with each other as well as the children, youth, and families they serve on a daily basis. As an example, the agency where I am currently placed does address multicultural sensitivity with children, youth, and families. They do so by building multicultural awareness through formal training on different topics such as, diversity, motivational interviewing, professional ethics, etc. In…

Sikhs in Canada face many struggles while they are attempting to fit into mainstream society, while identifying themselves as Sikhs (CITE). Canada identifies it self as a multicultural society that accepts all races and ethnicities (CITE). Racism has always been present in society, but it hasn’t been upfront and obvious to minorities. This all changed after September 11, 2001, after the attacks on the twin towers members in society collated Sikh individuals with terrorism (CITE). Within Canadian…

My philosophy of Multicultural Education is someone that provides a successful learning environment for every student. In my future classroom every student will accept all cultures and I will try to prevent very little if any prejudice and discrimination. In order to achieve this type of environment I must be culturally competent. To be culturally competent means you have to take the time and researches the different cultures, genders, and disabilities in your classroom or school. This…

Australia is a multicultural country.In childcare centres there are people from various religious ,cultural backgrounds.Educators need to interact with people having various beliefs values and attitudes.The child raring practices may vary among different cultures.The food habits,religious practices,social events vary a lot among various communities. It is important to accept diversity in childcare centres.No one should be deprived of their rights because of their cultural…

My Canada Canadian Currency: Undeniably, one of the most colourful currencies all over the world is Canadian currency. Although it may not be as recognizable as American currency, Canadian money is still unique and represents our history. Each Canadian bill has important pictures, with significant people like John A. Macdonald on one side and an event like the Canadarm2 and Dextre on the other. Our currency symbolizes us because it showed the dependence we tried to achieve by using our own…

What it Means to be Canadian To be Canadian means more than simply living in Canada. In Canada we stand up for what we believe in and respect others opinions. In Canada we all have to be part of a group. Canada consists of ten provinces, three territories, and five great lakes. Social Media, our Ethnic Cultures, and Economics. Social media is some websites and applications that support people to communicate or to participate in social networking. We are familiar with almost social media…

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada once said, “Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.” Canada is indeed a great representative of those qualities. However, how do these qualities apply to Canada as a country? Our political system is the foundation of Canada. It makes Canadians who they are and what they believe. It portrays equality, justice and tolerance through representative democracy, lobbying and the protection of rights and freedoms. Canada is…

the interview portion of the research, the focus was decided to be on how the individual, MS, interacted with food in her childhood, her home, her community, her eating habits/practices, and how she felt about different aspects of food within multiculturalism. Thus, the purpose of this interview is to explore her relationship (consumption of, emotions towards, access to, and experiences) with food. MS was chosen partially out of convenience and accessibility but also because she represented…

A recent study suggests that the meaning of Canadian multiculturalism has changed from being a national identity for all Canadians to being a minority affair (Winter 2015). This argument relies on the concept of socioethnic leveraging whereby two minority groups are constructed against each other by a third dominant one (Winter 2015). In essence, it is a “dynamic set of triangular relations” where the “multicultural we” is constructed as the other against the dominant “us” (Winter 2015). The…