Examples Of Multiculturalism In Canada

MULTICULTURALISM IN CANADA It is evident that, nowadays, children of immigrants in Canada are facing problem such as bullying,cultural confliction,access to the health care system and adjusting to the new educational system. The first issue is that there is a grave danger that children of new immigrants are dealing with based on daily life in the schools which is bullying.Bullying which comes in different forms for instance,physical, social and emotional,verbal and cyber can have detrimental effect on the self-esteem of students and its results are harmful.In Canadian schools it is reported that most of the bullying that children experience is from grade 7 to grade 9(Zelman & Bressan,Nash,2011).A case in point, is the verbal bullying
Last but not least,the children of new immigrants do not have access to the health care during their early days of arrival in Canada.Accessing to the health is the very first obstacle that children of new immigrants face in Canada while they arrive.The new immigrants and their children have to wait for three months in order to receive their OHIP(Ontario health insurance plan) and the children of new immigrants do not have access to this necessary need.In addition the children’s health is dependent of the whole family’s health.If the parents are working two jobs outside for meeting the child’s need,the children are in the charge of their parent’s role which is cooking and taking care of their siblings.Hence,the children’s access to health services is all dependent on the parent and if they cannot provide this need,children are going to