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Canada already has its own culture. It’s not on par with other developed nations, it’s evolved beyond the old strictures of what a national culture is. Individuals stuck in the old paradigm of ‘cultural identity’ often fail to see it, and sometimes see it and fear it. Change frightens some people.
Regard this definition of national culture: “National culture is the norms, behaviours, beliefs, customs, and values shared by the population of a sovereign nation (e.g., a Chinese or Canadian national culture). It refers to specific characteristics such as language, religion, ethnic and racial identity, cultural history and traditions.”
Canada is a modern nation and has rejected, for the most part, the old identifiers such as religion, ethnic and racial identity. Plus it has to some extent it has also modified the concept of shared cultural history and traditions. Our culture embraces each new imported religion, ethnicity and racial identity.
Canada has embraced multiculturalism as one of our nation’s characteristics. We welcome and celebrate the cultures of all our citizens. They become part of our mosaic. From Canada, these new citizens absorb and take to heart Canada’s norms, behaviours, beliefs and values. As a result, the resulting mosaic gets stronger every year.
It has taken Canada over 100 years to move from our old-style colonial thinking. To learn from our mistakes (the world’s mistakes) such as the fear of the “other” and the need to force everyone into the mold of emulating good British subjects. (The worst of this being Residential Schools where we tried to achieve cultural genocide of our First Nations.)
While we have a long way to go, Canada leads the world culturally, when it comes to embracing all cultures of the world to strengthen the fabric of our nation.
Countries all over the world are struggling to cope with massive migration influxes. However, for the most part, the best that they aim for is assimilation (resistance is futile) and at the worst, fear and violence. They might look to Canada and its multi-cultural approach to find answers to their struggles with the realities of mobility in the modern world.
Source:Quora
