Reading Time: 4 minutes Sociologists have convinced us to think of people solely in terms of their census categories and their victim credentials
Tag: Culture/Ethnicity
We shouldn’t teach ethnic languages in public schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes Teaching such languages is better done by parents and ethnic associations. Schools must focus on core subjects
Lining up for another government payout
Reading Time: 4 minutes Should every Indigenous person who was required to attend day school be compensated?
Worried about the alt-right? Be the anti-right
Reading Time: 4 minutes The best way to reduce the possibility of more alt-right-inspired violence is to confront its narratives head on
Night hunting has no place in the modern world
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why would a responsible government not immediately issue a total ban on something that’s so explicitly dangerous?
Canada’s cross-cultural identity deeply rooted in western society
Reading Time: 4 minutes While there’s great diversity in Canada – regional, urban-rural, French-English and ethnic – it’s encompassed within the framework of Canadian culture
It’s the religious who tend most to favour diversity
Reading Time: 3 minutes Non-believers overwhelmingly believe every religious community in Canada, especially Muslims and evangelical Christians, hurt the country
On board but not bored: why committee work makes a difference
Reading Time: 3 minutes The best boards reflect Canada’s diversity of gender, age, ethnicity, language, regionality, background and enthusiasm for the cause
A tempest in a cultural appropriation teapot
Reading Time: 4 minutes For the CBC and others, a joke about cultural appropriation is more important than, you know, things like real racism
Cultural appropriation controversy is entirely about free speech
Reading Time: 3 minutes The only route to a better appreciation of the cultures in Canada is through exposure, questioning, expressing opinions – even if those opinions are wrong