Having and raising children is one of our basic human rights, or is it? What is the correct way to raise a child? Who gets to decide whether or not it is being done appropriately? Should a parent have the freedom to instill their family 's values on their own children, or should the current government dictate the values we pass generationally down to our offspring? Opinions on this topic are innumerable. Canada is a multicultural country, by its very nature we will have diversity in the way our children are raised. Due to the lack of cohesion between the government and parents views on raising children, it has been very confusing for the next generation to know what is expected of them. It has been said that the next generation lacks hope …show more content…
The child had received this punishment for her disobedience to her father 's rules, the child won the case! What message does this send to our children? Most children will not like or agree with the punishment meted out by the parent, should we fill the courts with children suing their parents? The message we are sending our children is that we do not have control over how we raise them, the government can over rule the decisions we make concerning them. I am by no means advocating abusive behaviour in parenting yet, by whose perception do we evaluate whether or not our actions are abusive? Any kind of discipline can feel abusive to a child who is not mature enough to make proper judgments on their own. Each culture will have different ways of dealing with discipline and in a multicultural country we should respect the methods as long as they are not abusive.
Parenting styles have been split into three categories, let us take a closer look at each. If you remember the phrase "because I said so", you were probably raised by an authoritarian style. Very strict rules which were not up for discussion or explanation probably ruled your childhood. Children in this type of environment were being raised to follow the rules and not to question authority. Corporal punishment was more than likely a part of this upbringing. At the other end of the spectrum, if you felt like your parents were your friends they probably parented in a more permissive style. They were
The concept of nationhood is a complex one. What makes a country a nation? What is a nation? In this essay, we will attempt to gain an understanding of what a nation is, and why Canada is in fact a nation, not merely because we meet certain criteria, but because we, as Canadians, believe it is so.
“Multiculturalism exists when people accept and encourage many cultures to thrive in a society. Multiculturalism can lead to many great outcomes, including racial and ethnic harmony, which simply means that people from different backgrounds get along well together. Living with and accepting different cultures helps us understand each other and discourage hatred and violence.” () Furthermore, various ethnic groups introduce their individual beliefs, traditions, as well as, religions to the Canadian society. Generally speaking, be part of an expanding multicultural society has impacted Canada economically, demographically and socially. Thus, the presence of the variety of different cultures, languages and heritages, results in the need for the county to adapt and change, based on the new reality of Canada.
The term "multiculturalism" has been used by the Canadians in two different perspectives. The first use of this word is descriptive; meanwhile the other one is normative. The former sense implies the description of various religious and cultural groups that the Canadian population consists of. The nation of Canada is based on people from various races, religions and cultural backgrounds and there is a general acceptance of cultural pluralism in the country. Since the nineteenth century, Canada has experienced various waves of immigration (Wayland, 1997). Moreover, it has been reported that by the 1980s approximately 40 percent of the people were of origins other than British and French; the two being the largest and oldest groups of people in Canada (Troper, 1989). The history of Canada gives a great deal of importance to the relationship that existed between the French and the British people. According to the statistics, the major population of the country at the beginning of the 21st century was composed of people from outside French and British heritage; meanwhile there were many people who presented themselves as "visible minorities".
In the cultural mosaic that is Canada, all citizens within the country are seen as Canadians. However, to what extent a person wants to embrace or engage in that Canadian-citizen role is where the lines begin being blurred. Integration and nationalism have now become a hot-button topic for most within the Canadian context due to the systemic malpractice of colonialism and present-day turmoil. According to Trovato (YEAR, p. ), the root of this problem of how much one embraces nationalism comes down to conflicting views due to varying Models of Integration (from Monolithic to Multicultural within a liberal democracy) that having a diverse population possess. These conflicting models show the natural complexities that any society has when addressing integration and to what degree a
Differences in Family Function in Canada and Saudi Arabia. As long as multiculturalism is an official policy in Canada, there will be a lot of immigrants who come to Canada from different parts of the world, including Muslim countries. Islam plays an important role in every part of people’s lives in all Muslim countries, especially in Saudi Arabia which is heartland of Islam and provides Islamic standards for all Muslim countries. People and families who come to Canada bring their own traditions and habits.
Canada is known to be a country of diversity, inclusion, and acceptance. It is a country that consists of many individuals with various cultures and ethnic backgrounds. To live in Canada, it would be inevitably for one to be working with others that are of a different ethnic/ cultural background in the near future or even currently. Communicating with people or groups of people that group up with different norms, values and beliefs can cause miscommunication. Regardless of whether their communication be verbal, non-verbal or written, subtle differences for each member can create misconceptions and failure in collaborating to meeting the groups end goal. Therefore, this essay is dedicated to outlining practices that are able to assist teams
In recent decades, modern liberal societies have become increasingly more diverse. As a result, governments have begun introducing multicultural policies which protect and accommodate the practices and beliefs of various minority groups. Granted that multiculturalism has enriched modern societies with creativity, innovation, and economic prosperity, problems have arisen. One of the significant challenges faces these societies is what should or should not be tolerated under multiculturalism. This question has resulted in conflicts between groups seeking to expand human rights and those trying to prevent such expansion because of their adherence to a set of cultural or religious beliefs. In this paper, I will seek to identify when religious
Inextricably related to both international and domestic perceptions of Canada is an inherent multiculturalist society, primarily due to the anterior development of Canada as a composite state between British and French cultures and the ‘progressiveness’ and subsequent benefit (without logical substantiation) perpetually postulated by large segments of Canadian politics and a considerable quantity of Canadian
"Showing a great deal of variety; very different ". Not only is that the definition of diverse, but it is also a description if Canada. Canada is described like this because it is so different from other places in terms of physical characteristics, population, and natural resources. Due to these factors Canada is unlike other places but in a good way.
Canadian multiculturalism represents a form of ethnic regime through the powerful impact of multiculturalism in Canada, which recognizes variety of cultures and ethnicities. According to the Ethnicity and Ethnic Regimes lecture, multiculturalism is an “ideology that represents a set of social and political values that undergird the cultural pluralism model of governance” (Galabuzi, “Ethnicity and Ethnic Regimes slides,” 2015,). According to Canadian heritage mentioned in Ethnicity and Ethnic Regimes lecture, multiculturalism is “a relationship between Canada and the Canadian people. Our citizenship gives us equal rights and equal responsibilities.
All in all, differentiated instruction is a method used by teachers to accommodate all the different learning modalities, levels of learning, cultural and language barriers and special needs often integrated in one classroom with one lesson plan.
“Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists; it is making a new space, a better space for everyone” (Ministry of Education, 2009). Individuals arriving from all around the world are a testament to this idea as their presence identify Canada as a remarkably diverse country and a leader with one of the highest rates of immigration in the world. Diversity envelopes many elements including ethnic and cultural backgrounds, gender, race, socio-economic status along with physical and intellectual abilities, all which are visible throughout classrooms and communities across Canada (Ministry of Education, 2009).
Canada is routinely defined as the exemplar multicultural society with the most diverse cities in the world such as Vancouver, Toronto and Quebec. The concepts of integrity and complexity are being shaped in Canadian society because of its co-existence of different cultures. Indeed, multiculturalism has been a keystone of Canadian policy for over 40 years with the aim of pursuing Canadian unity (Flegel 2002). Accordingly, Canada is generally estimated a country where people are all equal and where they can share fundamental values based upon freedom. Diversity is sustained and promoted by governmental policy, however, there are still racist interactions, which are destructive to minorities integration, especially recent ethnic groups’ arrival (Banting & Kymlicka 2010). This paper will examine challenges that multiculturalism has brought society and residents of Canada.
Multiculturalism is the act of giving equivalent consideration regarding various foundations in a specific setting, and it can happen when a purview is made or extended by amalgamating zones with two or more diverse societies or through migration from various locales around the globe. Multiculturalism that seeks in keeping up the peculiarity of numerous societies is regularly differentiated to other settlement arrangements, for example, social mix, social osmosis, and racial isolation. Multiculturalism has been depicted as a "salad bowl" and "cultural mosaic" (Burgess, et al. 2005). In spite of the way that multiculturalism has predominantly been utilized as a term to characterize distraught gatherings, numerous scholars tend to center their contentions on outsiders who are ethnic and religious minorities, minority countries, and indigenous people groups. The term multiculturalism is frequently utilized as a part of a reference to Western country states, which
Have you ever glanced at a person who appears to be different and immediately averted your gaze to avoid eye contact? Of course you have, we are all guilty of this. Was this based on the person’s race? The way the dressed perhaps? Or maybe it was neither of these, but yet for some reason you felt as though you could not trust them. This concept of trust is the motivating factor for this paper. You will find that there are numerous ways that you interact in situations which require societal trust without even knowing. It begins at the very top, with our governments and policies, and then funnels through every network of the public sphere down to the diverse individuals whose identities are determined by differing levels of trust. Multiculturalism is found at the very centre of this. The appreciation of others and respect for other cultures is the premise of multiculturalism and is intended to prevent racial divides and conflict from arising. When executed correctly, it has the power and ability to allow for trust among one another, which is pivotal for a cohesive and ethnically diverse society.