Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Trust, Diversity, and Segregation
- 2 Contact, Diversity, and Segregation
- 3 Building Trust in a Segregated Society
- 4 Canada
- 5 The United Kingdom
- 6 Sweden and Australia
- 7 Altruism and Segregation
- 8 Where You Sit Depends Upon Where You Stand
- 9 The Farmer’s Daughter and Intergroup Contact
- References
- Index
4 - Canada
Trust, Integration, and the Search for Identity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Trust, Diversity, and Segregation
- 2 Contact, Diversity, and Segregation
- 3 Building Trust in a Segregated Society
- 4 Canada
- 5 The United Kingdom
- 6 Sweden and Australia
- 7 Altruism and Segregation
- 8 Where You Sit Depends Upon Where You Stand
- 9 The Farmer’s Daughter and Intergroup Contact
- References
- Index
Summary
[T]here cannot be one cultural policy for Canadians of British and French origin, another for the original peoples and yet a third for all others. For although there are two official languages, there is no official culture, nor does any ethnic group take precedence over any other. No citizen or group of citizens is other than Canadian, and all should be treated fairly.
Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau (1971) in the Commons, October 8, 1971, announcing Canada’s multiculturalism policy.Canadians are far from sanguine about the country’s increasing diversity…. While visitors often marvel at the multicultural mix evident on our city streets, there is growing evidence that Canada’s fabled mosaic is fracturing and that ethnic groups are self-segregating…. Despite good efforts and well-intentioned policies, poverty and disenfranchisement in Canada are becoming increasingly race-based…. Over the coming years, Canada’s ability to accommodate diversity is sure to become a central issue. As is the case in England, France, and other advanced liberal democracies, national unity in Canada is threatened by the growing atomization of our society along ethnic lines.
Allan Gregg, “Identity Crisis” (2006)[T]he hyphenation of Canadian identity prevents people from full citizenship in Canada, but at the same time allows them to retain their heritage. I, like many of my peers, have found it difficult to accept that we are not viewed to be “full Canadians.” In many ways people of colour are contained within Canadian society, but they’re never quite a part of it, they are seen as the “other,” as harsh as it may seem.
Auvniet K. Tehara (2010), an Indian-Canadian- Type
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- Information
- Segregation and MistrustDiversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion, pp. 90 - 112Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012