Our Cultural Mosaic

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Our Cultural Mosaic

• Chapter Six
• Culture Unit

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Cultures Change

• Culture is dynamic!
• Internal forces, such as better education and
  health care, or outside influences, like new
  technology, bring about change.
• Womens right to vote (Pearsons case)
• Abolishing the death penalty
• Cant use your cell phone and drive.
• Identity theft
• Social media

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The Salad Bowl

• Aboriginals, British and French (the first
  Canadians) Immigration Cultural diversity,
  which brings cultural change!
• Canada has been declared by the United Nations to
  be the most multicultural nation on earth.

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How are we grouped?

• Ethnic Group members share a common background.
• Linguistic group members share a common
  language
• Religious group members belong to a particular
  religion or belief system.

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What is our Cultural Group?

• Members belong to the dominant culture or
  mainstream culture.
• Contributing cultures add to the mosaic!
• In some cultures this might mean assimilation,
  where a culture becomes absorbed into mainstream
  culture.
• But we are multicultural, the salad bowl and
  therefore in Canada. Contributing cultures are
  expected to participate in Canadian economic,
  political and social life, while at the same time
  being encouraged to maintain their own separate
  cultural identities.

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Dartmouth Multicultural Festival
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Highland Games Antigonish
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Stereotypes

• Viewing all members of a group as the same,
  rather than as individuals. For example
• All teenagers are.

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All Newfoundlanders are.
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Stereotypes often lead to.

• Prejudice a view based on previously held ideas
  and not knowledge or experience, which of course
  may lead to
• discrimination treat a particular group or
  member of a group differently or unfairly..
• Racism belief that a persons abilities,
  personality and values are influenced by race,
  color or ethnic origin.

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Rita Joe

• Rita is a Mikmaq poet dedicated to reviving the
  traditional values of her people.
• She received the Order of Canada in 1990.
• Best known for the poem, I Lost My Talk

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I lost my talkThe talk you took away.When I was
a little girl At Shubenacadie school. You
snatched it awayI speak like you I think like
youI create like youThe scrambled ballad, about
my world. Two ways I talk Both ways I say,
Your way is more powerful. So gently I offer my
hand and ask,Let me find my talk So I can teach
you about me.
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Residential Schools

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