Deck 10: This Adventure Called Canada-Building

Question 1

Support for multiculturalism in Canada is difficult to gauge. According to several polls over the years, what set of figures best describes the range of Canadian support for multiculturalism?

A) 20-30%
B) 30-40%
C) 60-70%
D) 80-90 %

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What problem is addressed by an equity-based model of official multiculturalism?

A) prejudice
B) stereotyping and ethnocentrism
C) systemic discrimination
D) cross cultural miscommunication

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What level of multiculturalism is associated with a projected statement of what ought to be as a basis for living together with differences? Multiculturalism as .

A) critical
B) policy
C) ideology
D) practice

Answer 3

C

Question 4

A liberal model of multiculturalism is associated with a metaphor. .

A) Kaleidoscope
B) Mosaic
C) Melting Pot
D) Critical

Question 5

According to the text, Canada's official Multiculturalism attempts to differences.

A) politicize
B) reject
C) depoliticize
D) promote
E)

Question 6

What does an ethnicity-based multiculturalism define as the key problem that needs to be addressed?

A) race relations
B) systemic discrimination
C) systemic racism
D) prejudice

Question 7

When it comes to multicultural models of governance, a melting pot metaphor is associated with a model of multiculturalism.

A) Assimilation
B) Conservative
C) Liberal
D) Plural

Question 8

Four principles characterized the government's commitment to multiculturalism in 1971. Which of the following was NOT included as a principle?

A) Canadian identity
B) Personal Choice
C) Protection of Individual rights
D) Ethnic separation

Question 9

According to the textbook, the overall impact and implications of official multiculturalism can be best described as .

A) Neutral
B) Beneficial
C) Double edged
D) Costly

Question 10

An equity-based multiculturalism is focused on ?

A) culture
B) anti-racism
C) ethnicity
D) prejudice

Question 11

Which model of multiculturalism believes that people should be treated the same as a matter of course, but treated differently when the situation arises?

A) Liberal
B) Conservative
C) Plural
D) Mosaic

Question 12

What term best describes Canada's official multiculturalism when contrasted to the more radical multiculturalisms in the United States?

A) mosaic
B) inclusive
C) critical
D) celebratory

Question 13

In what year was the Multiculturalism Act passed?

A) 1971
B) 1982
C) 1988
D) 1990

Question 14

What doctrine endorses the belief that the validity and worth of all cultural practices is relative to a particular time and place?

A) ethnocentrism
B) cultural relativism
C) cultural pluralism
D) multiculturalism

Question 15

Multiculturalism is linked with several different layers of meaning. Which of the following is NOT regarded as a level of meaning? Multiculturalism as .

A) diversity
B) ideology
C) empirical fact
D) practice

Question 16

What does civic multiculturalism propose as the solution to the problem of "living together with differences"?

A) exclusion
B) inclusion
C) assimilation
D) seclusion

Question 17

Canada's official multiculturalism has evolved through four different phases? Which of the following is not included as part of this evolutionary sequence?

A) ethnicity multiculturalism
B) equity multiculturalism
C) structural multiculturalism
D) civic multiculturalism

Question 18

In what year did Canada become officially multicultural by way of formal government policy?

A) 1960
B) 1971
C) 1980
D) 1992

Question 19

According to the text, which of the following constitutes the core logic that underlies an official multiculturalism?

A) Diversity
B) Ethnic community building
C) Ethnicity
D) Canada-building

Question 20

What is the primary focus of a civic-based multiculturalism?

A) citizenship
B) cultural diversity
C) employment equity
D) ethnic minority rights

Question 21

In contrast to multiculturalism as fact, policy, and ideology, the idea of putting multiculturalism to work for Canada is known as multiculturalism as .

Question 22

According to a case study in the text, multiculturalism as official policy continues to flourish in Canada, but is experiencing a decline in popularity and support in other parts of the world. Much of Canada's success is attributed to its immigration program which attracts immigrants who are largely .

A) liberal, legal and secular
B) Illiberal, illegal, and ill defined
C) liberal, legal, and ill equipped
D) liberal, legal, and educated

Question 23

Promoting the ideals of participation, citizenship, and belonging are usually associated with the stage of Canada's official multiculturalism.

Question 24

According to the concept of cultural , the meaning and worth of all cultural practices are relative to the time and place in which they occur.

Question 25

Which model of multiculturalism endorses a culture conscious approach to group difference and deep diversity?

A) radical
B) liberal
C) conservative
D) plural

Question 26

Which stage of official multiculturalism in Canada is primarily concerned with the removal of prejudice (or cultural jealousies)?

Question 27

The Quebecois are one of two major ethnic groups in Canada that reject official multiculturalism. Who is the other major ethnic group?

Question 28

Canada possesses a relatively successful official multiculturalism because of its regulated immigration program. For the most part, according to the text, immigrants who come to Canada tend to have arrived legally, tend to be well equipped for fitting into the economy, and tend to be in values and outlooks.

Question 29

Which major diversity group(s) in Canada is dismissive of official multiculturalism?

A) African-Canadians
B) European ethnics
C) Chinese-Canadians and Japanese-Canadians
D) Aboriginal peoples and the Quebecois

Question 30

Canada's multiculturalism has been criticized for many reasons. Those on the right tend to be critical of multiculturalism for the following reason.

A) A plot to divide the working class
B) Erosion of Canadian identity and unity
C) A tool for social equality
D) An assimilation in slow motion

Question 31

In contrast to plural and liberal multiculturalisms, a culture-blind approach to diversity and difference reflects a commitment to a multiculturalism

Question 32

Canada's official multiculturalism attempts to depoliticize difference and diversity. The critical multicultural discourses in the United States tend to difference and diversity.

Question 33

What term describes a multiculturalism that challenges the prevailing distribution of power in society?

Question 34

Reference to multiculturalism as a (n) reinforces the notion of multiculturalism as a set of ideas and ideals for living together with differences.

Question 35

By making Canada safe for difference as well as safe difference, the objective of Canada' s official multiculturalism is to defuse the potentially negative aspects of difference and diversity.

Question 36

A multiculturalism that focuses on improving race relations falls under the stage of official multiculturalism in Canada.

Question 37

If multiculturalism in the United States is associated with a critical perspective, the expression multiculturalism best describes its counterpart in Canada?

Question 38

What term best describes the most recent turn in the government' multiculturalism policy since about 2006? multiculturalism.

Question 39

For some, multiculturalism should begin by envisioning a particular view of the good society and then asking how much differences can be incorporated. This is known as a society-in-difference approach. Others believe that multiculturalism should begin by prioritizing cultural differences and then design a good society around it. This is known as approach.

Question 40

According to the text, what style of multiculturalism believes that a society of many cultures is possible as long as people's differences are rejected as a basis for living together, in part because everyone is equal before the law?

A) Conservative
B) Liberal
C) Radical
D) Critical