SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Color Blindness, Canadian Identity, Essentialism
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Ethnic canadian identity, multiculturalism policies allow and encourage canadians to maintain their ancestral heritage (ethnicity) Multiculturalism encourages ethnic identification, but also encourages people to identify as an ethnic canadian: you (cid:374)e(cid:448)e(cid:396) sa(cid:455) (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374), (cid:455)ou sa(cid:455) (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e je(cid:449)ish/ja(cid:373)ai(cid:272)a(cid:374)/italia(cid:374), ide(cid:374)tif(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:455)ou(cid:396) eth(cid:374)i(cid:272)it(cid:455), the gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) is that (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374), e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)ted that you are) Up until 1962 canadian immigration was based on assimilation (basis for entrance was race and ethnicity; permitted or prohibited you on the basis of, could you assimilate?) Once you got more ethnic identified canadians (not british anglosaxan canadians) and those who came under the points system, you had people arguing that they were being discriminated against within canadian systems. Anti-racism arguments came about, but what came out of this was multiculturalism. 1971, nation building changes from assimilationist policies to a policy of nation building and canadian unity based on multiculturalism, all going to participate and celebrate ea(cid:272)h othe(cid:396)"s eth(cid:374)i(cid:272)ities, (cid:862)so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)st(cid:396)u(cid:272)tio(cid:374) of eth(cid:374)i(cid:272)it(cid:455)(cid:863)
