SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trans-Cultural Diffusion, Making Money, Interracial Marriage
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Canada is unique among developed countries in three dimensions of multiculturalism: language diversity, the presence of indigenous peoples across the country, and large immigrant populations. Approximately 55 percent of respondents in a 2010 opinion poll indicated that multiculturalism is good for canada, while 30 percent regarded it as bad. Basic principle of multiculturalism as indicated by prime minister pierre trudeau when he first introduced the policy in 1971 is that social integration and multiculturalism do not stand in opposition to one another. Hdi is an index used to rank countries by level of human development . Operationalized as: life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity, education index, mean years of schooling, standard of living, as measured by gross national income per capita (gnipc) Culture refers to the knowledge, language, values, customs, and material objects that are passed from person to person and from one generation to the next in a human group or society.
