HIS367H5 Lecture Notes - Ultraist Movement, Leonard Maltin, Canadian Identity
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Lecture 3 defining terms and concepts ii: integration vs. assimilation, multiculturalism, tolerance, and political culture. This country has the potential to be transformative and path breaking, however, it is very important to think carefully what this experiment is, how things are working, why they are working, etc. It is important to think about what is happening in this country, and is important because it is often discussed messily; when policies that come into place and threaten it, there will be a mess. The point about a diaspora is not a category, not a technical thing; it is how you think about yourself: however, you do not consider yourself diasporic sometimes for a reason. To be diasporic has nothing to do with appearance, religion, or generation. It is an imaginative space and the stories that you tell yourself of who you are and where you are. Host society do not use host society ; instead, use adoptive home or wider society.
