Multiculturalism

671 Syrians had been resettled. This is in part due to businesses that offered money and job opportunities to refugees. To gracious donations that citizens made. To people opening up their homes and welcoming unfamiliar faces. They exhibited multiculturalism by allowing the Syrian minorities the ability to maintain their separate identities while freely living in Canada (Henslin). So what does this have to do with cultural relativism? The Canadian people who contributed to piloting the efforts…

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the methods and approaches of embedding multicultural education in a classroom setting. The research will also address the following topics; marginalized and culturally diverse students dilemma in the classroom, opposition of students` native cultures and the host country`s culture. Additionally, other topics of interest will be the students` awareness in a democratic educational atmosphere and models and practices of multicultural education and…

The term multiculturalism refers to the coexistence of diverse cultures, where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and is manifested in customary behaviours, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communication styles. Since being at Munger Hill Elementary I haven’t really seen any accounts of multicultural education occur in the classroom. Even though I have not seen many accounts of this occur in the classroom, there are multiple strategies to be made to…

Social networking is the expansion of social contacts by making connections through individuals, and the two well-known types of capitals are bonding capital and bridging capital. The linkages of the two capitals have a massive influence on immigrants to communicate and be affiliated to the community. For instance when a group of individuals from one culture associate with other immigrants from another culture and “involve relationships beyond a tight-knit community, it’s likely to promote a…

Though the policy of multiculturalism is one that promotes many cultures to co-exist in Canada this story shows that it is flawed and that many immigrant families see their children losing their heritage and identity due to a lack of education about diversity. By analyzing this piece…

Canada is a diverse society made up of a large number of immigrants and Aboriginal people, this variability represents multiculturalism and needs individuals to be appreciative and respectful towards other cultures (Browne, Varcoe, Smye, Reimer-Kirkham, Lynam & Wong, 2009). In Canada, Aboriginal people have experienced a long history of colonization, they have suffered the loss of cultural cohesion and historical trauma in their life (Gerlach, 2012). Immigrants also come from different areas of…

Canadian culture is a broad term that describes the literary, traditions, political and a number of social elements that are on behalf of Canada and Canadians. Canada has been widely considered as a multicultural country. Things such as other neighboring cultures, immigrants from other different cultures and time can influence a culture. Throughout the history, Canada was not always a multicultural country; its own aboriginal culture and early immigrants from European culture and traditions have…

The suburb of Cabramatta has long been known as a highly populated area by Indo-Chinese migrants and influenced manifestly by their culture since the influx of refuges from the Vietnam War and Australia’s change in past migration policies. Cabramatta has been the centre of academic debates and literature since the 1990’s due to the ethnic residential concentration within the one area. Ethnic residential concentration is the large migration of one group from a particular culture to another…

Since the 1970s, Canada has been internationally recognized for adopting a political culture of multiculturalism. Canada’s national identity is also perceived by the society and by the government as being culturally diverse. This is due to the vast amount of different cultures that reside in Canada other than the Aboriginal peoples and Caucasian people. People not of aboriginal or Caucasian descent are understood as the visible minorities which make up approximately 19 percent of Canada’s…

as a pioneer in building a non-conventional approach to global leadership in his company Starr Consulting Group. The essential reason why Starr (2015) started to design a new structure for leadership consulting is because he saw the lack of multiculturalism in organizations…