Cultural Culture In Canada

Canada’s media industries have played a huge role in the Canadian culture. The Canadian culture has integrated with other countries forming a successful globalization. Many countries including the United States have contributed to the success in Canada’s media industries. The success of globalization between all of the countries was predicted by Marshall McLuhan and ever since his prediction, the world can be depicted as a global village. The global village can be viewed as a tool, a tool that is bringing the world together, despite the different languages, locations, and diverse cultures. With new technologies being developed more often, the communication skills between different countries are very successful. Canada’s diversity in their media and policies has established a global village with people around the world, allowing them to relate to the Canadian culture.

Throughout Canada’s history, Indigenous peoples’ values and beliefs have consistently been stereotyped as inferior to other “Eurocentric” ideals. Further research, however, shows that the Indigenous people live by harmonious ideals, as described on the Assembly of

Being Canadian is so much more than just the cliché stereotype of living in igloos, playing hockey 24/7, and drinking Tim Hortans coffee every day. Being a part of the Canadian culture means that all Canadians are unified as one big family. Culture is defined as “a set of human made objective and subjective elements that have increased the probability of survival, and resulted in satisfaction for the participants” (Samovar, 1991). Every culture has their own attitudes, customs and beliefs that differentiate one culture from another. Canadian culture can be very distinctive from other cultures. Usually the first impression of Canadians is that we are very polite and we live in an extremely friendly and accepting country. Being Canadian is about having big hearts and appreciating our diverse environment. Our country shares a wide variety of different ethnic backgrounds which makes being Canadian unique.

The geography of Canada affects our culture considerably. Canada is located north of the United

Remote communities such as those in northern Canada consistently experience a shortage of healthcare providers (HCP) including nurses (Place, Macleod, Moffitt & Pitblado, 2014). Due to the cultural and geographical uniqueness of these areas, challenges are inevitable, however, it can be undoubtedly rewarding. Nurses can particularly gain valuable experience regarding the importance of cultural competence and its implementation.Therefore, this paper will discuss the context of northern Canadian communities as well as three challenges and three benefits faced by nurses working there. Considering the populations in these communities are culturally diverse, it is especially essential for the nurses to have the appropriate cultural knowledge and skills in working with these populations. Consequently, we will also explore the definition of cultural competence, other terms used to describe this concept and how nurses can ensure they have the necessary cultural competence to work with these communities.

Canada is a nation made up of many people and events that help illustrate an image of what people think of us. Canada is a country with over 130 years of history so it can be difficult to choose which specific moments define it and a variety of different themes to choose from. I know that The Battle of Passchendaele was a very important occasion that helped establish Canadian Military Achievement. Women’s Rights have been fought for many years and are still being fought for in Canada I think Flappers helped boost this issue. English-French relations have been very tense in the past, the FLQ Crisis played a major role in this theme. With the Syrian Crisis happening many Syrians need to leave their country in order to be safe, Canada is one of the countries which are letting in refugees with 25,000 entering through 2015-16 this helps establish Canada’s Role on the International stage. I believe that these events are the most important ones that have occurred and I will be discussing them in further detail in this report.

Every community in Canada, whether it is large or small, is a gold mine of diversity, tradition, culture and much history. It’s the familiarity, knowledge of their heritage, and sense of belonging at school, work, home, or their place of worship, that strengthens their identity or who they are as Canadians. If someone identified as Canadian, it means they are a part of Canada’s society. To be Canadian means freedom. Canadians have the freedom to think for themselves, speak what they believe, and live their life with no limits. Because of this freedom, they have certain character traits and qualities. Simply, Canadians contain a certain Canadian attitude, the recognition of Canadian multiculturalism and prominently, Canadian pride.

Government: Ontario has a different type of government than us. To start that they have a different “headquarters” than us. Their ‘headquarters’ is in Toronto. As if ours is in Washington, D.C, as we all know is in the white house. They started their government in 1867 or before. We started ours in 1776-1789. 1789 was when the USA came together as an independent country. That is when we started creating a new constitution, and establishing its national government. In order to start their traditional rights, American Patriots took control of the colonies and started a war for independence.

Today, Canada is known as a developed, independent country with people of different cultures. The Canadian identity has unique cultures and characteristics that set them apart from the rest of the world. Since the mid-20th century, Canada underwent many changes that shaped Canada into what it is today. The Women’s Movements, immigration after the 1950s, and the rule of Pierre Trudeau played important roles in the growth and shaping of the Canadian identity.

Canada’s large geographic size, the existence and fortitude of a significant number of native people, the conquest of one European language population by another and moderately open immigration policy led Canada into thriving as an very diverse and successful nation. Though Canada does not have the best military, Canada possesses a very strong economy, and Canada has successfully capitalized on its physical environment filled with vast and rich amounts of natural resources lead the nation to be one of the world’s richest nations.

Early Quebec - (1534-1948) 1534 - On July 24, Jacques Cartier (the explorer) plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and claims it for France. This marks the birth of the modern province of Quebec, though it is not known at the time. 1608 - Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec City, the first European settlement in Canada. 1948 - Adoption of a new Flag of Quebec on January 21.

Canada is considered to be a cultural mosaic, where all cultures are embraced opposed to a melting pot where it is expected to adopt one culture. Government regulated media is more favourable than policies based off of self-regulated solutions when addressing Canada’s media industries and cultural needs. Canadians place importance on national identity and without government regulated policies, the content in the media would have minimal Canadian information. According to the Aird Commission, when Canada’s media was operating through private enterprise, many stations expressed conflicting content, however, with state regulated media, broadcasting allows the nation to have a unified vocation. One unified message being sent to the nations citizens is more beneficial than multiple broadcasts on differentiated and insignificant information.

From taking this course, I feel connected to colonial history by gaining the knowledge of the history of the Indigenous People in Canada. I think that the knowledge I have learned can be transferred into my life and studies as a student at the University of Regina and for my future career in the Nonprofit/ public health sector. Furthermore, I have gained perspective into the Canadian health care system. I can now look at health through the perspectives of Western and traditional Indigenous medicine. This will allow me to further understand, emphasize, and respect other cultures. I hope that by learning about the Indigenous culture, traditions, heritage, history, and health care needs, I can provide excellent health care and services to the

over the past century and a half, Canada has welcomed 15 million immigrants. Canada is also home to over one million aboriginal people, including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit communities. Canada has a national policy for multiculturalism and works to ensure that people’s customs and traditions are preserved and respected.

I attended the March 9, 2017 meeting of the Cumberland, Rhode Island School Committee. There were six members present: Raymond Salvatore, Karen Freedman, Amy Goggin, Stephen Hess, William Dennen, and Paul DiModica. At the beginning of the meeting, it was announced that Mark Fiorillo was not in attendance. Unfortunately, though I grew up in Cumberland, I did not the public schools, so I was somewhat unfamiliar with the programs discussed.