Taking Stock: Surveys and Attitudes, Benefits and Costs, Successes and Failures

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Chapter 7 Taking Stock

Surveys and Attitudes, Benefits and Costs, Successes and Failures

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Pages:: 172–201

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004466562_007

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Abstract

Chapter 7 puts multiculturalism under the microscope by assessing how it is played out the level of positive and critical attitudes, costs and benefits, and successes and failures. The chapter makes it abundantly clear. When it comes to assessing an official multiculturalism, it’s not a case of either/or but one of both/and since it’s impossible to have benefits without costs, successes without failures, and attitudes without criticism. The chapter also delves into why criticism of Canadian multiculturalism that prevails outside academic circles (Chazan et al. 2011; Duchesne 2017) has made little headway in gaining political traction or stoking public appeal. An evaluation of Canadian attitudes toward multiculturalism draws on a series of national surveys. To date, survey data suggest Canadians are generally supportive of an official multiculturalism, at least in principle if not always in practice; nevertheless, this support is conditional and comes with strings attached. The chapter also acknowledges that Canadians are largely uninformed about the logic of an official multiculturalism relying, instead, on dated assumptions, caricaturized versions, and uncritical applications adopted from the European theatre. Not surprisingly, criticism of multiculturalism tends to be sufficiently polarized along partisan lines as to preclude any balanced assessment (Duchesne 2017; also Watts 2018).

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Canadian Multiculturalism @50

Retrospect, Perspectives, Prospects

Series: Transnational Migration and Education, Volume: 6

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004466562

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 02 Jul 2021

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Part 1 Framing Multiculturalism

Chapter 1 Demystifying Canadian Multiculturalism

Chapter 2 Conceptualizing Multicultural Governance Models

Part 2 Canada’s Official Multiculturalism

Chapter 3 A Monocultural Canada

Chapter 4 Canadian Multiculturalism, Quebecois Interculturalism

Chapter 5 Canada’s Multiculturalism Model

Part 3 Putting Multiculturalism to the Test

Chapter 6 Applying Multiculturalism

Chapter 7 Taking Stock

Chapter 8 The Politics of Culturalism

Chapter 9 Accommodating Religious Diversity in a Pro-Secular Canada

Part 4 Beyond Multiculturalism

Chapter 10 A Postmulticultural World

Chapter 11 Renewing Multiculturalism

Epilog Assessing 50 Years of Canadian Multiculturalism

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