A Study Of Canadian Identity

Canada is a nation with the features of multiethnic and cultural pluralism. Canada has long attracted the immigrants to the country, and has become a country with the most diverse ethnic groups. As a result, the immigrants have brought together with them their original languages, values and cultural heritages as well. It is the ethnic diverse cultures that make up the characteristics of Canadian "Mosaic". However, with the deepening of globalization, Canadian cultures have been encountering and clashing in the unprecedented width, depth, and on unparalleled frequency. Cultural conflicts among ethnic groups, which are the issue of national identity and identification, become salient in recent decades. Apart from that, American cultural penetration also undermines the security of unifying Canadian identity. The thesis, from perspectives of unifying Canadian identity, elaborates the reasons arousing Canadian identical crisis from two aspects, introduces relevant resolutions carried out by Canadian government, and ultimately renders a few suggestions to the issue.The thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter one introduces the purpose and fundamental construction of the thesis. Chapter two is literature review, where the basic knowledge and relevant theories are discussed. Chapter three reviews the changes of Canadian diverse identities from the perspective of history. Chapter four is the main body of the thesis, which analyzes the reasons affecting the unity of Canadian identity from the internal and external aspects, respectively. Chapter five probes a series of measures exerted by federal government and further discusses the merits and demerits of multicultural policy. At the end of the last part, suggestions from the writer are put forward with the aims of dealing with the cleavage of Canadian national identity.A great deal of valuable experience Canada has gained in ethnic integration and cultural retention does provide the enlightenment and also set an excellent model for other multiethnic countries in settling ethnical contradictions among multiple groups and cultural conflicts among all nations in the age of globalization. In the end, the author aspires to shed some light on how to resolve and maintain the national unity for other multiethnic countries in the world, including China.