POLD52H3 Lecture Notes - Affirmative Action, Canadian Identity, Cultural Assimilation
18 Dec 2012
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Protection of minorities vs majority(and their culture), due to constant risk of segeration and persecution. Avoidance of majority rule in democracy: creates special protection for minorities. Protecting minorities is internal to minority groups, and how it effects conditions within the group. You should respect minority culture, we should embrace it, two sides of every argument. Expansion of autonomous choice for individuals, choices to choose to preserve our identities. Borrowing and appropriation of cultures by borrowing elements from various cultures to form multiculturalism. Apporpriation: create own element, this is now part of my identity/life: smoking marijuana is an example as some make it part of their identity. One hand is that it enriches our lives, another is that we make it our own. Or mockery of cultures: dimension of multiculturalism: Multiculturalism challenges nations as cultural communities, notion that nation is primary or only meaningful membership. Definition of who you are should nto be made upon nationalistic lines.
