The Mosaic Myth
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The Mosaic Myth

The Social Integration of Newcomers to Canada

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Mosaic Myth

The Social Integration of Newcomers to Canada

About this book

Canada's official model for integrating newcomers, the cultural mosaic, is based on false assumptions and fails to meet immigrants' new social and cultural needs. Canada's government delivered its official policy on multiculturalism in 1971, adopting a model called the cultural mosaic. While on the surface the policy and model seemed benign, they were based on false assumptions. The Mosaic Myth deconstructs the theory of the cultural mosaic to expose those flaws and warn how its implementation will be at best useless and at worst harmful. Author Domenic Diamante, himself an immigrant from Italy, was skeptical from the start. After studying the evidence, he drafted this book, now forty years ago. Today, with the mosaic model having failed, Diamante brings his work to the public stage in its original form to show what was wrong with the mosaic and why it matters.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. A Note from the Editor
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 The Social Integration of Newcomers to Canada
  8. 2 The Royal Commission and the Resulting Policy of Multiculturalism
  9. 3 The Ideology of the Mosaic
  10. 4 The Assumption of Immigration
  11. 5 Assumptions About Ethnicity
  12. 6 Mainstream Canadians
  13. 7 The Assumption of Culture
  14. 8 Acculturation
  15. 9 Canadian Mainstream Culture
  16. 10 The Adverse Effects of the Ideology of the Mosaic
  17. Conclusion
  18. Bibliography
  19. Notes