Multilingual Strengthen Societies in Canada Summary first then critical review. At least 900 words. Article(file name 1) and critical review outline is in

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be sure to read the Critical Reading pdf first Pardon my English, but has anything ever bedeviled this country more than language? It’s the
membrane that separates us. It’s the crux on which our history has turned. Or, if you prefer,
the cross we’ve always borne. If language can be said to have had any unifying force in
Canada, it would have been its power to inspire episodes of feuding accommodation-usually
at the end of a gun or government fiat.) The one constant that backdrops these
accommodations has been our mutual resentment. In 145 years of nationhood, language
hasn’t brought us any closer to understanding one another. And that was just with two
languages. Now, according to the latest Statistics Canada census, we speak more than 200.
This is hardly news. Walk the streets, go to any public school. and you’ll hear as much.
What is news is Statistics Canada’s recent profile this week of the concentration of that
multilingualism. The 2001 Census found one-sixth of the population spoke a language other
than French or English at home. The 2011 census found that percentage had increased to onefifth of the population. That is astounding growth. That growth is continuing.
Most of those 200 languages were spoken in small enough numbers to be statistically
negligible, but a significant few—most of them Asian—were being spoken in such great
numbers and have been so concentrated in the country’s major cities that their use has,
effectively, nullified Canada’s policy of two official languages.
Bilingualism is dead. Or at least it’s been relegated to the status of charming relic. While
bilingualism statistically is holding its own, allophones will soon outnumber francophones in
Canada. The federal government might continue to observe the niceties of bilingualism in the
face of this fact, but the real world will ignore it. True bilingualism has always been an
Ottawa pipe dream,’ anyway, and I’m pretty sure not even Ottawa buys into it any more.
Multilingualism has stepped in to fill that void. Or more precisely, stomped in. The official
version of this complete and radical transformation of the country’s fabric—accomplished in
the space of a generation— goo thus: Multilingualism is a wonderful thing, the diversity of
which is evidence Of Canada’s enlightened tolerance.
“When I look at the globalized world that We live in,” The Sun quoted Doug Norris, chief
demographer at Environics Analytics, as saying, “the fact that we ourselves are becoming
more diverse and reflecting all of those languages is a real asset to us as a country today. I
think it strengthens us as a nation as opposed to a country which was very singular in terms of
its language or ethnicity”
This is a lovely view of the world, and not necessarily untrue, though I can think of a few
countries, some of them economic powerhouses, that despite a distaste for diversity have had
no trouble operating in a global market. But given the strife that language has caused in
Canada, and given our historical track record, you would think there might be a more
skeptical and frank discussion about multilingualism. Which is to say, Canadians do not live in
a “globe.” They live in neighborhoods, And Canada isn’t a corporation. It’s a nation. There is a
big difference.
So, the question should be, does multilingualism work •at the street level, and has it
made us stronger as a society? Or has it made our society less cohesive? Are we becoming a
truly multicultural nation unified by a global vision, or are we fracturing into a collection of
tribes? Does multilingualism and multiculturalism work, not at the corporate board level and
in feel-good government press releases, but practically in our cities and our neighborhoods?
We step carefully around those questions, ever so sensitive to charges of racism. We are such
a nice people, at least in public. But there have been more and more news stories examining
the phenomenon of self-ghettoizing, and the concentration of linguistic groups and cultures in
such great numbers that the need or compulsion to speak one of the two official languages in
public has lessened. This used to be a concern unique to Quebec. It no longer is.
The corollary to these doubts harbors an even greater question. Which is, will our growing
linguistic diversity change our belief system? Language, after all, is only the vehicle for
culture. And my culture, the one I believe in, is a society that embraces women’s rights.
Sexual tolerance a healthy skepticism of authority(rather than a deference to it) and a belief
Canadian brand socialism I don’t want, to see these beliefs eroded.
the question is –and it’s one we shouldn’t be afraid to ask—in the future we’ve embarked
upon, are we going be the same page on those issues, or will we be speaking a different
language?

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