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Multiculturalism (a Just Society [82]) was adopted as the official policy of the Canadian government during the premiership of Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the 1970s and 1980s. [83] Multiculturalism is reflected in the law through the Canadian Multiculturalism Act [84] and section 27 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. [85]
Multiculturalism in Australia is today reflected by the multicultural composition of its people, its immigration policies, its prohibition on discrimination, equality before the law of all persons, as well as various cultural policies which promote diversity, such as the formation of the Special Broadcasting Service.
A prominent example of pluralism is the United States, in which a dominant culture with strong elements of nationalism, a sporting culture, and an artistic culture contained also smaller groups with their own ethnic, religious, and cultural norms. [citation needed]
An example of voluntary cultural assimilation would be during the Spanish Inquisition, when Jews and Muslims accepted the Roman Catholic Church as their religion, but meanwhile, many people still privately practised their traditional religions. That type of assimilation is used to convince a dominant power that a culture has peacefully ...
37th General Assembly of UNESCO in 2013, Paris. Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture.It has a variety of meanings in different contexts, sometimes applying to cultural products like art works in museums or entertainment available online, and sometimes applying to the variety of human cultures or traditions in a specific region, or in the ...
The term cultural amalgamation is often used in studies on post–civil rights era in the United States and contemporary multiculturalism and multiracialism. [ 7 ] [ 1 ] For instance, the cultural amalgamation process happened with the fall of the Roman empire when the Middle Ages started and Roman Jewish/Christian culture and Germanic tribal ...
author Nandi Kyei, who self-published her work, The Real Nanny Diaries – a Novel (2009), as seen through the eyes of a nanny from Trinidad. At a Caribbean literary lime at a college campus in Brooklyn, one of the featured speakers was Trinidadian author Victoria Brown, whose book Minding Ben (Hyperion Voices, 2011) chronicled the
[9] [104] [105] [106] Multiculturalism is often cited as one of Canada's significant accomplishments and a key distinguishing element of Canadian identity. [9] [107] [108] Richard Gwyn has suggested that "tolerance" has replaced "loyalty" as the touchstone of Canadian identity. [107] Multiculturalism has been emphasized in recent decades.