POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Will Kymlicka, Glass Ceiling, Democracy
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Has nothing to do with relatively successful immigration policy, and with integration of migrants in this country. Immigration is the movement of people from one country to another. Multiculturalism a way migrant are integrated into new country. Trevor, philips who is also black said multiculturalism is dead. An old argument (+) encourages tolerance, reduce barriers, helps people settle (-) threatens identity, encourages separation rather than integration, emphasizes diference. Both sides are right, because critics are attacking multiculturalism if that term would mean what a reasonable person would understand it o be. Supporters are also right because they are describing multiculturalism as it is, as it works on the ground. Multiculturalism has nothing to do with multiculturalism as europeans or americans, or anyone except canada understands it as, or everything to do with integration, if not assimilation. 85% of cdns will say multiculturalism is important to the country. Majorities consist of the high levels of wanting immigration.
