The Idea Of Multiculturalism In Canada

Multiculturalism
Every adult knows the stereotypes about people from other cities, countries, and even continents. Undoubtedly, it is impossible to deny a cultural and environmental influence on the development of an individual; however, one cannot exclude the fact that biases play a huge role in a perception of the world. These prejudices often build walls on the way of communication with each other as a single human race living on the Earth and not as a lot of small warring tribes. In contrast to national development that divides people, there is placed the concept of multiculturalism.
Nowadays, the subjects of this idea are one of the most discussed, resonant, and truly urgent. At the same time, it has become one of the most amorphous and
It was used in different contexts and initially served an exclusively instrumental function. The definition appeared for the first time in the late 1960-s in Canada; a decade later, it became the official term for the new government policy (Burnet & Driedger, 2011). It proclaimed the goal to make the state more responsive to the needs of the citizens of all social groups. Unofficially, it was believed that the government was forced to introduce it to avoid political confrontation and further polarization of the Canadian society.
Later, the slogan of multiculturalism was adopted by Australia; the state decided to put the end to futile policy of immigrant assimilation and discrimination of people of color. Australia tried to become more comfortable for all its residents regardless of their origin and language. The main difference between multiculturalism of Canada and Australia is that the first is mainly focused on the preservation and promotion of ethnic communities; the Australian concept is a free choice for individuals of their identity and social
It is believed that this thought is a product of liberal ideology and generally develops in the liberalism frameworks. This view requires clarification: the essentialist assumptions that allow the use of multiculturalist rhetorics to be very far from liberalism. It is a strategy which is followed by the activists of ethnic minorities. Their version of multiculturalism includes non-interference of the state and a host society into the ethnic community and providing them with privileges and additional resources for the sake of protecting the identity as the compensation for past inequalities. Conservative multiculturalism insists on a social exclusion of minorities from the majority in order to preserve the ethnic identity of both. Liberalism also is not perfect. Some supporters of this thought can be distinguished into the influential movement which is based on a communism direction of liberal theory. It is ready to reconsider the principles of individual freedom and autonomy in the name of social justice and the protection of group identity. Many political philosophers, the followers of this trend, focus on the problems of ethnicity and collective rights of cultural groups. The efforts of these authors revived the debates about