SOSC 1350 Lecture Notes - Jeremy Harrison, Class Discrimination, Flying While Muslim
14 Feb 2013
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Multiculturalism from 1990s-present: video clip: little mosque on the prairie, flying while muslim (2007) Critique problems that muslims have with racial profiling: multiculturalism and canadian nationalism. Multiculturalism serves as a way to promote tolerance; often held as a reason to celebrate. Differentiate us from the; us= canadians vs. them= Canada is about diversity: form of moral superiority over the u. s. Less racist we are: yet multiculturalism is seen as a problem when (white) images of canadiana are disturbed, mounties wearing turbans. Baltej singh dhillion; applied to the rcmp and he met the requirements and more except one; he is sikh and as a sikh man he didn"t want to remove his turban from his home. He was refused entry onto the rcmp because of his turban. 100,000 people signed a petition to keep the rcmp uniform the same. Dhillon; the dress code after this crisis was amended in the early 90"s.
