The Mosaic Myth : The Social Integration of Newcomers to Canada / Domenic Diamante.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diamante, Domenic, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--Canada.

Multiculturalism.

Social integration--Canada.

Social integration.

Immigrants--Canada.

Immigrants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Dundurn Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Canada's official model for integrating newcomers, the cultural mosaic, is based on false assumptions and fails to meet immigrants' new social and cultural needs. Canada's government delivered its official policy on multiculturalism in 1971, adopting a model called the cultural mosaic. While on the surface the policy and the model seemed benign, they were based on false assumptions. The Mosaic Myth deconstructs the theory of the cultural mosaic to expose those flaws and warn how its implementation will be at best useless and at worst harmful. Author Domenic Diamante, himself an immigrant from Italy, was skeptical from the start. After studying the evidence, he drafted this book 40 years ago. Today, with the mosaic model having failed, Diamante brings his work to the public stage in its original form to show what was wrong with the mosaic and why it matters."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle

Title

Copyright

Contents

A Note from the Editor

Introduction

1 The Social Integration of Newcomers to Canada

2 The Royal Commission and the Resulting Policy of Multiculturalism

3 The Ideology of the Mosaic

4 The Assumption of Immigration

5 Assumptions About Ethnicity

6 Mainstream Canadians

7 The Assumption of Culture

8 Acculturation

9 Canadian Mainstream Culture

10 The Adverse Effects of the Ideology of the Mosaic

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Diamante, Domenic The Mosaic Myth

ISBN:

9781459753082

9781459753099

1459753097

OCLC:

1378722551