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Being Ourselves: Immigrant Culture and Self-Identification Among Young Haitians in Montréal
Since the early 1960s, large numbers of Haitians have emigrated from their native island nation. Changes in federal immigration legislation in the 1970s in both the United States and Canada enabled immigrants of colour a facilitated entry into the two countries, and this factor contributed to the arrival of Haitians to the North American continent. These newcomers primarily settled in cities along the eastern seaboard, in Boston, Miami, Montréal and New York. The initial motivator of this two-wave Haitian migration was the extreme political persecution that existed in Haiti under the iron-fisted rule of the Duvalier dictatorships and their secret police (popularly known as the tontons macoutes ) over a thirty year period from the late 1950s to the mid 1980s
Figuring the Plural
This report is an examination of ethnocultural, or ethnically/culturally specific, arts organizations in Canada and the United States.As our societies rapidly diversify and we seek to negotiate our increasingly complex national identities, these organizations possess enormous potential to assist in this process for they serve as cultural advocates, cultural interpreters, facilitators of cross-cultural understanding and communication keepers of ethnic tradition, and/or sites where prejudice is exposed and challenged
Languages and Postmodern Ethnic Identities
Specific discourses of our mother tongue (which is not always our mother\u27s tongue) are supposed to decisively constitute our subjectivity. These discourses which are constituting us and are available to us offer possible identities. These identities carry ethno-culturally-specific meanings, which are symbolised within and by spoken, written, and non-verbal language/s. Are languages given the same relevance when giving meaning to postmodern ethnicity, if one understands postmodern ethnicity as a stance of simultaneously transcending ethnicity as a complete, self-contained system but retaining it as a selectively preferred, evolving, participatory system? Multilinguality, as it may correspond with aspects of postmodern ethnicity, seems to imply an interaction between different languages with their distinct understanding of self and the world which manifests in a kaleidoscopic view, temporarily creating new constellations of meaning
Canadian Multiculturalism Ideology: Mere Tolerance or Full Acceptance
September 11, 2001 will forever be etched in the memory of Canadians who were deeply affected by the events of that day. This cataclysmic occurrence had a pivotal place not only upon the private troubles of those directly related but also upon the public issues and the consequent public policies of all of us who may not have been as directly touched. Such a life-changing experience will impinge upon the politics of our entire nation. The terrorist act was a political statement at one level which must be addressed politically as well It is noteworthy, given this context of the terrorist attack in the nation to the South, that October 8, 2001 represented the thirtieth anniversary of the political declaration of multiculturalism as a public state policy within Canada What difference does the official policy discourse and ideology of multiculturalism make in the political response to the ethnocultural and racial diversity within and without its national borders
American Identity and Public Opinion: How What it Means to be an American Influences Language Policy Preferences
This paper builds upon previous research that has shown how notions of what it means to be an American can influence policy preferences. The author does so by analyzing how several conceptions of American citizenship, namely liberalism, civic republicanism, and ethnoculturalism, affect support for declaring English the official language and printing election ballots only in English. Using focus group research, the paper shows that these three conceptions provide a useful, though incomplete, framework for describing Americans' perceptions of their national identity and for examining how those perceptions influence opinions. Further, the author argues that the direction in which conceptions of national identity influence preferences will depend on the particular aspects of identity that people emphasize.
Longitudinal invariance of the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy
The Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE; Wang et al., 2003) was developed to measure ethnocultural empathy and is a promising tool for assessing change in the construct over time. However, no prior study examines the functioning of the SEE over time. The purpose of the study was to examine the invariance of the SEE utilizing a modified factor model that included a negative wording effect. The SEE was found to exhibit longitudinal measurement invariance over a two-year time span in a sample of undergraduate students. Change over time was examined at the error-free, latent level and only one subscale (EPT) showed a significant increase over time. Test-retest coefficients showed most factors were relatively stable over time (i.e., individuals were changing in the same direction). The results point to the need for further examination of the SEE and of the negative wording factor on the scale, specifically
Ukrainian folk art as a factor ethnocultural identification
На основі наукового аналізу сутності й змісту етнокультурної ідентифікації, виявлення значення народного мистецтва у формуванні національного характеру й ментальності народу зроблено висновок щодо необхідності розробки і реалізації на загальнодержавному рівні заходів зі збереження й трансляції етнокультури як найвагомішого втілення і мірила унікальності нації, основи її духовності.Based on the scientific analysis of the nature and content of ethnic and cultural identification, detection values of folk art in the formation of national character and mentality of the people concluded on the need to develop and implement measures at the national level with the preservation and transmission of ethnic culture as the most important measure implementation and uniqueness of the nation, its spiritual foundations
“ Alles oder Nichts ” ? The outer boundaries of the German citizenship debate
In this article we explore how constitutionally enshrined and historically conditioned conceptions
of membership in Germany have continued to frame citizenship debates over the
last two decades. These debates have been revived both by domestic developments, such as
mass migration, and by external factors, such as European integration. The larger question
examined is the extent to which, at least in the European Union, conceptions of “ citizenship
” now evolve in reaction to “ internal ” or “ external ” factors, and how the balance of such
factors shapes the outcome of particular changes in policy. In our inquiry, we look fi rst at the
evolution of policy on access to full citizenship in Germany and then at that of its attendant rights
and obligations. Finally, we draw certain general conclusions from the German example for
European integration and for possible scenarios of coexistence of the national and European
citizenship models
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