HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cultural Mosaic, Sound Bite, Visible Minority
6 Feb 2017
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The immigrant crisis: a personal and social question: a problem-based approach to seeing answers and solutions, a refugee on the run, race and discrimination, social and economic inclusion and exclusion, politics of identity and belonging. Today"s reality: immigration and diversity: diversity and multiculturalism as foundations of canadian national identity, highest percentage of foreign born citizen in any g8 country, by 2031, 28% of canadas population will be foreign born. 32% of the population will be visible minority: diversity in canada spans race, ethnicity, language, gender, religious af liations, sexual orientations, abilities and economic status, a federal cabinet that looks like canada . The historians approach: engagement with real world issues- linking historical and contemporary perspectives, the roots of the narrative of canadian diversity. The canadian mosaic: beyond soundbite and polarized public discourse, enhance deep public understanding of the issues, provide bass for sound personal understanding and public policy based on critical evaluation of historical and contemporary evidence.
