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The Globe and Mail keeps asking "How Canadian Are You?"
By Alden E. Habacon
The cover of Friday's Globe and Mail was not what we expected as the highlight of the weekend: "Visible-minority immigrants and their children identify less and less with the country, report says." According to a recent report that analyzed 2002 Statistics Canada data, despite the much talked about change to Canada's demographics, visible minorities are increasingly feeling a sense of exclusion.
"The gap didn't narrow, but widened, with the next generation, with 42 per cent of all visible minority second-generation immigrants reporting discrimination, compared with 10.9 per cent of their white counterparts."
Discrimination and stereotyping also continues to be an issue, and may in fact be on the rise. According to the cover story, "While the children of white immigrants become more attached to Canada, exhibit more of a sense of belonging to Canada and identify in greater numbers as Canadians, the reverse is true for children of visible-minority immigrants, the study found." This is quite the about-face from the Globe and Mail's ground-breaking 12-part series about The New Canada in 2003.
Perhaps proof that the statistics, highly-celebrated fusion-restaurants, bi-cultural magazines and ethnic third-language television (that are the proof of Canada's diversity) are not enough to make even second-generation visible-minorities report a deeper sense of belonging to Canada. If not already on your mind, one could say this is the (obvious?) result of "visibly diverse" Canadians - despite being legitimate Canadians - not seeing themselves sufficiently reflected in mainstream media as quintessentially Canadian; not in the same way their white-counter parts might.
What do you think?
More:
Read How Canadian Are You? by MARINA JIMENEZ (globeandmail.com)
Read the cover story, How does multiculturalism translate for minorities? by HAYLEY MICK here (globeandmail.com).
Caught Between Cultures (CBC Canada Now and Newsworld, 2003)
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It’s just an example of how one may be able to attain relative economic success ... a unaddressed sense and history of racism still makes visible minorities feel “less Canadian”. Makes our work all the more important.
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