Multiculturalism

Secondly, globalization should be encouraged because it leads to cultural diversity. Cultural diversity basically can be viewed when the dissimilarities in race, ethnicity, language, nationality, religion, and sexual orientation are denoted within a community (Amadeo, 2013). We now live in a world in which markets, media, law, corporation, labor, scientific research and advocacy groups are international, multinational, and multicultural. It is true that there many people are doubtful of this new…

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…

the case of Zunera Ishaq, drew considerable attention in 2015. In large part to the proximity to the federal election and a potential rising tide of Islamaphobia which began to permeate Canadian society. Canada may have an official policy of multiculturalism, but in practice, much is left to be desired. First and foremost, in my opinion, Canada is still, for the most part, a society governed by the ideology of a patriarchal, white, Christian European dominance, in which the “Other”, that is,…

(iii) Dialogical Multiculturalism: This actually is different from the former two as it represents the practical level rather than the policy areas. This was primarily developed by Parekh (2000) who suggested “multiculturalism explains well how the cultural communities should relate to one another. It also prioritized that only the norms and values of different cultures within a given context cannot bring about peace and solidarity rather by creating an open and equal dialogue between the…

Getting to know different cultures can demonstrate positive outcomes. So that said, learning about different cultures can be done in several ways such as for traveling into different countries, research about a different culture etc. However, taking the example of leaving in the United States, it is very effortless to get to know a different culture by the fact that, America is fulfilled with migrators. Many of them came for a better life and so called live the American Dream. However, part of…

On the world stage, Canada has always been known to demonstrate its rich multiculturalism. Canada often serves as an example to the rest of the world what safety, equality, and citizen happiness look like while maintaining the multiculturalism that many governments fear to implicate into their own countries. One prominent and extremely proud source of culture in Canada is the province of Quebec. Quebec is a province that is more than often full of wandering tourists and is well known for its…

culture which is beneficial in today’s multicultural society. Evidence of her accepting diversity was hiring teachers from various cultural, ethnic, and educational backgrounds. Every school year she holds a cultural festival that celebrates multiculturalism, which allows the students to choose a country they were interested in to do research and create a project that explains its different demographics. In conclusion of this cultural report the students, teachers, and staff would celebrate the…

families and meet their needs. A tension that arose with the Canadian nurses of color is that they are not given leadership positions among the other nurses. This was presented in chapter 11 of Righting Humanity and how Canada brought in the multiculturalism policy in the year of 1971. Under the Canadian nursing practice there is the “ideal” nurse and this mirrors only White. Canada brings up the multicultural policy but not there is a certain type of way a nurse should look and have in order to…

While reading the article written by Angela Aujla, “Others in Their Own Land”, it quickly became clear that her argument was that South Asians have been facing being “others” in Canada even if this was their home country. She shows this “other-ing” all through history up until today. Through looking at comments made by white, Anglo-Canadians, to the stereotypes South Asians have, and the questions asked, such as “where are you really from?” it is clear that South Asians have indeed been others…

Australia prides itself on the fact that it is a multicultural society. Our status of cultural diversity is far beyond some other countries and with that, we stand by what we believe in to lead as example in the hope that other countries follow suit. Home to one of the world’s longest surviving cultures, the interconnectivity between Australian citizens and culture is growing for the better and expanding ever so greater into the future. Unfortunately, Australia has not always matched its…