Multiculturalism

small business and politics. Greek migration has helped make Australia a rich multicultural country by introducing food, language, religion, cafes, education, business, art, sport clubs and politics. Greeks have not only helped Australia’s multiculturalism, but they have become an established member of Australian society. Even though they have become a part of Australian society they have also sustained their strong culture and religious identity. Greek architecture has widely affected…

Richard Rodriquez describes assimilation as a process by which a person apart of one culture adopts and familiarizes to the customs of another culture. His position on the subject of assimilation is more or less neutral. Rodriquez acknowledges assimilation to a degree but does not prefer the labeling that results with assimilation. “I am in favor of assimilation. I am not in favor of assimilation. I recognize assimilation” (91), says Rodriquez. He tolerates and accepts assimilation and makes a…

The preamble to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom states, “Canada is grounded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God” (Russell 1999). According to Russell (1999), this can also be considered the “God-clause.” The three articles discuss this notion of stating “the supremacy of God” in the preamble of the Canadian Charter. Although the articles have different views about the preamble, I highly agree with Russell’s (1999) article titled, “The Supremacy of God does not belong…

to vote. Legal citizens can take a part into politics by voting for the formation of government and the candidate of next prime minster. These show the just human rights every Canadian has. In addition, people living in Canada benefit from its multiculturalism. Canada is a multicultural society with people come from many different ethnic background live in. Canada has two official languages—English and French. Beside that, there are many people speak dissimilar languages. The languages people…

I am currently a program and logistic manager in the Air Force. The previous courses I took are Organizational Change Development, Multiculturalism Ethics in the work center, Multiculturalism ethics in Philosophy, Social Psychology, Principles of supervision. These courses had enhanced and helped me identify the issues we had encountered one time during our career, but one incident is too many. I am doing a research on the issues we have in the workplace such as diversity inequality which…

and Perrella (2012). As well, the emergences of indifferent “regional political cultures” will be examined (Henderson and Ailsa 2004), and the context effect will be applied to voter dissatisfaction. Finally, the risk of regional diversity and multiculturalism being weakened will be considered. The composition effect will be looked at on its…

The Fear of the Foreigner Xenophobia can be defined as the attitudes, prejudices and behaviour that reject, exclude persons, based on the perception that they are outsiders or foreigners to the community, society or national identity. As citizens of a multicultural nation, we can be conditioned to fear and discriminate against those whose characteristics differ from ours. The drive to quickly divide the world into ‘us’ and ‘them’ are powerful in…

with at least one immigrant parent will preserve their mother tongue. Although this might be an improvement from the 41% in 1981, the future doesn’t seem too bright. Compared to our neighbours the United States, Canada plays a major support to multiculturalism and heritage languages. According to the Canadian government, a heritage language is one other than the official languages of Canada that contributes to the linguistic heritage of Canada. The government promotes culture, funds…

After attending class and participating in the discussion on multilingualism and multiculturalism, I am more aware of the difficulties multilingual and multicultural students face. The Five Tricks card game we played in class really opened my eyes to what these students experience. During the card game, I became frustrated and agitated with those around me because I thought they did not learn to play the game correctly. It was important for me to play by the rules, because my family and I get…

The craze of Trudeaumania is making a comeback since way back in 1968. Canada’s current Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau is currently the headline for many newspapers all throughout Canada. However, the man whose footsteps Trudeau followed were his father’s, who was also Canada 's fifteenth Prime Minister. Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau was an extremely well known Prime Minister for Canada. He inspired many Canadians and rebuilt the nation. Trudeau has greatly impacted Canada during…