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| Congratulations, you're a cultural time-bomb.... CANADA. by Zseni 01/31/2007, 5:29pm PST | ||||
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| Some have suggested promoting diversity itself as a rallying call for all Canadians, but, again, drawing attention to difference can undermine attempts to forge an overarching national identity. The situation has been further complicated by the emergence of intensive globalization and the necessarily diminished role of nation-states (and hence of national mythologies) that globalization has ushered in.
The unspoken subtext is that second-generation immigrant children have experiences which are essentially no different either from those of their parents or from other (white) Canadians, so they should not be behaving in ways essentially different than their parents or other (white) Canadians. Of course this is a giant paradox. I consider second-generation violence to be totally unsurprising but I like to see how countries handle it. The US solution (internment camps) is a perennial favorite! Fundamentally I consider racism to be completely bound up with sexism: minorities are more acceptable insofar as they present fewer challenges to the masculinity of the racial majority in a region. Before you flame the shit out of me for talking about things again, consider that my thesis was brilliantly dramatized by Lucky Number S7evin! And that's better than anyone else around here ever does. To get to the point: countries with nice records of gender equality also tend to have nice records on racial equality and immigration, but does it go the other way around? Is the Canadian multiculti hiccup something which is a cause or a symptom of the recent Candian swing to the right, and is there an attendant Canadian disturbance in gender relations? |
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Congratulations, you're a cultural time-bomb.... CANADA. by 01/31/2007, 5:29pm PST  Who needs angry minorities when you have Quebec? NT by 01/31/2007, 7:08pm PST zeni's a bitter spinster, sees the world through sexism goggles NT by 02/01/2007, 12:04pm PST |
