No Place Like Home by Neil Bissoondath

Introduction

Bissoondath reveals cracks in the multicultural mosaic of Canada. Three or four years in the New Millennium, Toronto, Canada's largest city, will be an unusual event. In the city of three million, the word "minority" and "majority" will be included head and former become the latter. Reputed as the most ethnically diverse city in the world, Toronto has been completely redesigned for immigration, like Canada has been redone by a quarter century multiculturalism.

This policy, has quiet devastating consequences for the country and the immigrants themselves (Kymlicka 383). The stated objective of Canadian Multiculturalism Act (1971) is to recognize "the existence of communities whose members share a common origin and their historic contribution to Canadian society. It promises to" boost their development "and" promote understanding and creativity that arise from the interaction between individual individuals and communities of different origins.

Two cultures (English and French) the nature of the country should be deliberately refashioned into a multicultural "mosaic." But "culture" is the most complex creature in its essence, it represents the very breath of the people. For the purposes of multiculturalism, the concept has been reduced to mere theater. Canadians are clearly divided into "ethnic" and otherwise, are facing each other mosaics mostly at festivals. There's traditional music, traditional dances, traditional food at the distinctly non-traditional prices, all of which are distracting, as it goes - but such meetings are at the level of folklore Disneyland.

We have a lot of self-satisfaction from such festivals, they are regarded as proof of our openness, welcome to our differences. However, how easily we forget that none of our ethnic cultures, it seems, gave poetry or literature or philosophy worthy of consideration(Reitz 99). How tempting it as encouraging that the Greeks always Zorbas, Ukrainians always Cossacks: we go with the stereotypes reinforced.

Not only the differences highlighted, but the faces are defined by these differences. There are those who find pleasure in the game on the topic, those who's ethnic mature with age. But playing in ethnic, deracinated and costumes, this play into a stereotype. This is to abdicate their full humanity in favor of one of their exotic features. We have to accept the role of ethnicity and take a gentle marginalization. This is to acknowledge that they never will be only part of the landscape, but always a little away from her, not quite belonging.

In exoticizing and banality of cultures, often thousands of years, sanctifying the mentality of mosaic tiles, we have succeeded in creating a mental ghetto for different communities. One in the sense of belonging to a larger Canadian landscape constrained by loyalty to different cultural or racial heritage. Frequently between the groups in vain for the quality that Canadians seem to value above all - tolerance(Mick 67). We are proud to be a tolerant country, unlike the United States, which seems to demand its immigrant's form of the representation of American mythology. But not only we've given a lot of himself ...