What is Canadian Identity:Multicultralism

p What is Canadian Identity : Multiculturalism

2008

Every individual in Canada , old or young , sooner or later looks an answer for an important question , what does it meant to be a Canadian ' The question seems innocuous enough at first glance However , articulating Canadian identity , whether by an individual or a collective , is a far more elusive phenomenon than it may initially appear to be . In fact , what I learned working on this answer is that Canadian identity is a somewhat slippery concept , awash with discrepancy and subject to contingency . Currently , Canada

, the US and Australia are the world 's largest recipients of immigrants and account for over half of the world 's legal immigration . The twentieth century has been a period of large-scale immigration to Canada from the very start . Thus contemporary Canada exhibits a greater cultural and racialized diversity than ever before . Important to this question is Canada 's uniqueness because unlike most nations , Canada does not currently boast a clear identity , a coherent history , or even a cohesive ethnicity . The connection a young Canadian may or may not experience with Canada as an entity is organic and often tenuous . The national "ties that bind " turn out not to be ties at all , and do not seem to bind anything . Cairns and Williams offer this synopsis of the current conundrum that is contemporary Canada

What kind of country is it ? - with over a million Aboriginal peoples internally divided into Inuit , Metis , and Indian in its midst , with hundreds of...