Canada as a multicultural society and the ways created to fight against racism and discrimination The human beings, regardless to the places where are living, are characterized by some basic biological, psychological and cultural determinations. The human genome Is formatted by 46 chromosomes and this Is a general determination for all people don’t matter to what ethnic group they belong. From psychological point of view, according to the research done by Jean Pigged and his followers, development of psychological system is based on phases which are same for all the children.
Even after a common observation we can see that steps in development for all the children are same, the pediatricians charts show what a child should do if he/she has a normal development when is 2, 3 , 6 months old, one year and so on. These charts of evaluations are used for everybody regardless of ethnic origin. Human being is able to adapt to various environments, developing adaptation appearance. For example to be able to live In very warm areas, suppose to have a skin not very sensitive to sun.
It Is well known that people with very white skin develop more quickly skin cancer after exposing to the sun. The adaptation to environment does not have any Impact on psychological development which Is same, as was proved by Jean Pigged. In politics, the racism took expression in colonial contexts affecting Africans, Natives Americans and other populations in the colonial areas. It was a way to obtain free work and to gain wealth. Beside the racism there are also other discriminations, as xenophobia (the hate against foreign) anti-Semitism (the hate against Semitic population).
According to United Nations documents, any racism or discrimination act is against the law. The globalization made the whole world a “global village” where people from different countries live and work together. Jean Piglet’s 1931 essay “The Spirit of Solidarity in Children and International Cooperation” Jean Pigged “Genetic Epistemology’ (1968) Wisped – deflation of racism Canada Is a multicultural society where a big number of colleens were born outside the country.
Every year there are a lot of cultural manifestations, as Festivals, Art exhibitions, Folk musical events, all having as first aim to promote the good understanding between people with different ethnic backgrounds. In respect of this idea are encouraged and supported by governmental policies, the efforts of each community to develop programs, to publish magazines, to present their own values and their heritage to other fellow citizens. People from different places, with different cultural habits and professional backgrounds are living in same cities, working together and using same social, health, educational or transportation services.
The Canadians, born Inside or outside Canada are very polite, so everywhere we go we can see positive and non discriminatory attitudes, regardless to our appearance or aground. Medical, educational and social services offer support to each excellent according to standards which are same for everybody. But Canada Is a very competitive country, where every year are coming a big number of immigrants and education and work experience. According to Canadian standards, nobody can be asked when applying for Job, questions about birth nationality, race, religion, gender, marital status.
But most of this information can be very easily obtained at a simple look to a Resume, so the name, the place where the education was done and the revises work places can indicate with no doubt the birth nationality, the race, gender and sometimes even the religion. The selection for work in Canada is based on the interview, and the selection of applicants after reviewing the Resumes is up to the Hiring Manager. If some candidates cannot obtain any interview after the Resume was designed according to Canadian standards, and after many applications, the situation can be perceived by candidate as a hidden discrimination.
The interview is mostly done verbally, so no written test done by the candidates’ remains to be analyzed after the selection was done. There is the risk that the Hiring Manager will select among the many applicants that names which indicate people born in same country or belong to same culture. It is proven that people likes to work with other people speaking same language like them. To avoid the situations which can be perceived as discriminative, the selection of candidates can be done after a written test, which is a scale to evaluate impartial the candidates.
Everybody who is interested should be allowed to take the written test unless there is serious reason to be stopped. The candidate name can be covered as nobody from the employment omission or the hiring manager should see the name before the evaluation is done. The best interest of Canada is served if each newcomer or born Canadian it is used at maximum potential and never under own professional potential. The role of education in promoting respect for cultural diversity is essential. The school is first place to learn that friendship is a universal quality of human beings, regardless of cultural background or ethnicity.
The school professionals are aware about this value in education and they are promoting the cooperation, the team work between hillier from different families, speaking different languages and who belong to different cultures. Not all the time we can say same things about the parents or other members of student’s families who encourage the children to find friends from same ethnic group, speaking same language or having same religion or spiritual background. The most important idea to learn in schools is that to respect our birth culture or our parents birth culture as unique don’t means that other cultures do not have same value.
Antarctica policies are protected by law, and any racist attitude or NY act of discrimination, if proven is punished according to law. The question is: in a country of more than 30 million people there is any possibility to be also individuals with racist feelings? What can fuel and how can be explained some discriminatory attitudes? The simplest explanation of racism is missing of knowledge. Many people admit that they don’t know too much about an ethnic group or they know Just the fact that they look different and this is enough to have rejection feelings for that group.
Another problem is that people do often the mistake to Judge an entire ethnic group r population after the deeds of few people who belong to that group. The racism is often associated with discrimination, the racism is the rejection of somebody based on his/her race and the discrimination is the immediately possible action: the person subject of racism is refused access to some services, the correct access to education, the access to generally speaking human rights.
Being mostly an effect of missing of knowledge, the racism can be in some circumstances fuelled by some bad experiences which somebody had in his/her life. We know from statistics that there re people who respect and people who don’t respect the law, regardless of the race. But the human mind has the tendency to make errors of Judgment. For example somebody abused, robed or being subject of violent behavior by other person, will tend to think that all people from same ethnic group are same.
It is a matter of life experience and education to correct these errors of Judgment. The Canadian policy is based on Chart of Human Rights and offer protection to all citizens. Most of newcomers to Canada are positively impressed by the very friendly attitude of politicians. The members of neighborhoods and political ridings are invited to picnics, to barbeques; the local politicians, from the governing party or from opposition are informing the citizens about their political views, about what the community have to gain if their party will win the elections.
Because most of immigrants and refugees are coming from countries where there are problems with human rights respect, the situation described above can make them really happy. Like in every domain of activity there is always room for improvement. It can be very beneficial for communities if every political and every employment office can have a repressions department to collect the complaints or the suggestions of population, and also to try to solve the problems of citizens.
