We're Not so different are we?
Multiculturalism is more and more an Elitist driven concept.
Contrary to the theory that Canada is a county made up of ethnic minorities who define themselves as different and who wish to remain so, newcomers on average ranked official multiculturalism as Canada's 19th defining attribute, only three places ahead of the 16th-place status assigned to it by the general population, and well behind such all-Canadian symbols as Wayne Gretzky, Niagara Falls and the Mounties.
In other words, first-generation immigrants overwhelmingly define what it means to be Canadian in terms of what they share in common with other Canadians --as opposed to government policies that accentuate differences between newcomers and longer-settled groups.
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