Title: Our Cultural Mosaic
1Our Cultural Mosaic
2Cultures 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
3The 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.
4How 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.
5What 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.
6Dartmouth Multicultural Festival
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8Highland Games Antigonish
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10Stereotypes
- Viewing all members of a group as the same,
rather than as individuals. For example - All teenagers are.
11All Newfoundlanders are.
12or
13Stereotypes 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.
14Rita 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
15I 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.
16Residential Schools
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t-my-talk-by-rita-joe/