Canada as a nation-state traces its evolution from the dispossession‚ racism‚ genocide and displacement of Indigenous peoples‚ lands and territories by European settlers and colonialists‚ mainly coming from Britain and France during the 15th century onwards. In a global context‚ settler-colonialism in present-day Canada was similar to the European conquest and colonial practices all over the world as there was a general trend and attempts of annihilating the Indigenous population. This overall impacted
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treatment of immigrants‚ how Canadians are only accepting of immigrants who look similar to us and have the same kind of culture‚ and how French and English cultures have managed to assimilate to help form a cultural identity that has helped define Canada. The first argument is Canada’s past treatment of immigrants compared to now such as the treatment of workers on the CPR construction and the Chinese head tax. Between 1881 and 1884‚ as many as 17 000 Chinese men came to B.C. to work as labourers
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Technocrats and Canada: Starting Point for Border Security Architecture Derek Brown (G00040841) Grantham University Abstract This paper will discuss the role of technocrats in Homeland Security and this paper will discuss whether or not Canada should of been the starting point for border security architecture. What is a technocrat? Is it some new genre of music for bureaucrats? Or is it what you get when you cross the techno genre and a Politian? Actually‚ it’s none of these; a technocrat
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Multiculturalism Multiculturalism is a part of any country.There are Jews in Germany‚ Poles in Ireland‚ Asians in Canada and so on. I believe multiculturalism is a good idea. It provides a wealth of cultural activities‚ foods‚ and different views of life. No one is really a true Canadian besides the native people. We are all part of a vast society we call Canada. In Canada we pride ourselves in being a mosaic‚ so to speak‚unlike the United States where they are a so called melting pot so
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building a stable and economically functioning country. Education is supposed to provide people with financially efficient jobs‚ and individual education is learned throughout the country which helps make a nation smarter and more educated resulting in Canada having the knowledge that other country’s will want to gain from us. Without a proper education people will work in low-paying jobs that can be attained right after high school such as a McDonald’s cook‚ maids‚ and grocery clerks; which creates poverty
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CRITICAL EVALUATION Introduction ‘Underground to Canada’ by Barbara Smucker is a captivating novel which tells the story of Julilly and Liza and their journey to Canada. The following essay will show how Smucker uses themes such as courage and determination to make the novel’s two central characters (Julilly and Liza) show remarkable feats of courage to escape from slavery and make a new life for themselves in Canada. Plot Summary At the beginning of the novel Julilly and Mammy Sally are slaves
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recent immigrants to Canada. However‚ upon further review its effects can be seen in isolated groups through how increasingly connected tribes became‚ and in recent persons that have recently come to live in Canada through looking at ethnic violence. Before Canada became a European colony‚ it had many different groups of Natives that all lived in different parts of Canada and each group had a number of tribes and communities. To see how globalization affected Natives in Canada‚ one group to look at
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Title: Reaction Paper Assignment Article of Reviewing: Boyd. Jade. 2012. “Hey‚ We’re from Canada but We’re Diverse‚ Right?”: Neoliberalism‚ Multiculturalism‚ and Identity on So You Think You Can Dance Canada”. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 29:4‚ October. 259-274. Course: SOC263H5F: Social Inequality Instructor’s name:Ivanka Knezevic Student Name: Yingjun Li Student ID: 1000677957 Date of Submission: 11/13/2015 Introduction: Nowadays. dance reality show is one
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those of Japanese descent in Canada and the United States were not afforded either luxury. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ Japanese-Canadians and Japanese-Americans became the enemies of their own nations. Discrimination was nothing new; American immigrants of Asian descent were barred from gaining citizenship‚ and all residents of Japanese descent over the age of 14 (United States) or 16 (Canada) were required to register and
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there’s a heavy amount of censorship that goes on‚ most of it being media related‚ from going to the movies all the way up to even texting someone‚ the government is able to access it all. In Canada‚ we are lucky enough to not have a pervasive system like this‚ but if we don’t take action now‚ who is to say that Canada couldn’t end up like Australia or even America when it comes to censorship - intrusive systems that have no use in protecting one’s
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