Chapter Six Culture Unit Our Cultural Mosaic Chapter Six Culture Unit

Cultures Change Culture is dynamic! Internal forces, such as better education and health care, or outside influences, like new technology, bring about change. Women’s right to vote (Pearson’s case) Abolishing the death penalty Can’t use your cell phone and drive. Identity theft Social media

The Salad Bowl Aboriginals, British and French (the first Canadians) + Immigration = Cultural diversity, which brings cultural change! Canada has been declared by the United Nations to be the most multicultural nation on earth.

How are we grouped? Ethnic Group – members share a common background. Linguistic group – members share a common language Religious group – members belong to a particular religion or belief system.

What is our Cultural Group? Members belong to the dominant culture or mainstream culture. Contributing cultures add to the mosaic! In some cultures this might mean assimilation, where a culture becomes absorbed into mainstream culture. But we are multicultural, the salad bowl and therefore in Canada….” Contributing cultures are expected to participate in Canadian economic, political and social life, while at the same time being encouraged to maintain their own separate cultural identities.”

Dartmouth Multicultural Festival

Highland Games Antigonish

Stereotypes Viewing all members of a group as the same, rather than as individuals. For example…… All teenagers are………….

All Newfoundlanders are….

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Stereotypes often lead to…. Prejudice – a view based on previously held ideas and not knowledge or experience, which of course may lead to discrimination – treat a particular group or member of a group differently or unfairly.. Racism – belief that a person’s abilities, personality and values are influenced by race, color or ethnic origin.

Rita Joe Rita is a Mi’kmaq poet dedicated to reviving the traditional values of her people. She received the “Order of Canada” in 1990. Best known for the poem, “I Lost My Talk”

Two ways I talk Both ways I say, Your way is more powerful. I lost my talk The talk you took away. When I was a little girl At Shubenacadie school. You snatched it away: I speak like you I think like you I create like you The scrambled ballad, about my world. Two ways I talk Both ways I say, Your way is more powerful. So gently I offer my hand and ask, Let me find my talk So I can teach you about me.

Residential Schools http://englishfruit.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/i-lost-my-talk-by-rita-joe/