HISC45H3 Lecture Notes - Cultural Pluralism, Siter, Settlement Movement
Document Summary
Both new canadians and candian professions gatekeepers had expectations as to what life will be like. Candian gatekeepers included social workers, mental health speaclists citizenship officials. All had main aim: problem solvers and influence newcomers and their impact. Shared deire for healthy political body om phusyical and emotional as well as moral and sexul terms. Postwar gatekeeps to normalize conventional ideals of proper gender roles, the family and sexual behavior sought to cultivate good citizen who would be perform their civic duties. Paradoox: gatekeeprs envisioned newcomers as thinking people yet were weary of the complacent newcomers. Two roots in concept of modern citizenship : liberal individualis and civic republicanism. Contradictory pulls individual rights and social welfare gurantees, as well as a princle particpatory democracy were in much evidence in postwar canada. : however not the case: the candian majority had the authority to define and enforce candian norms to which newcomers were expected to conform.