← National vs. Ancestral Identity in Canada

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How should Canadians balance their national and ancestral identities?

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Canadians can be proud of both their ancestral heritage and their Canadian identity at the same time.

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Author @Keen Ember

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A strong Canadian identity can include many different cultural and ancestral traditions.

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Author @Light Hedgehog

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Future generations of Canadians will likely develop identities that are increasingly both Canadian and multicultural.

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Author @Light Hedgehog

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I don't tend to look inward for identity, nor even formalize it externally. Identity is mostly something I think of as a label placed upon me by outsiders looking to reference me somehow.

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Author @RichSeal

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Balancing one's sense of self and various community identities varies.

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Author @afomi2

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Canadians can be proud of both their ancestral heritage and their Canadian identity at the same time.

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5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes
85% agreement ✓

A strong Canadian identity can include many different cultural and ancestral traditions.

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5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes
85% agreement ✓

Future generations of Canadians will likely develop identities that are increasingly both Canadian and multicultural.

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agree

5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes
85% agreement ✓

I don't tend to look inward for identity, nor even formalize it externally. Identity is mostly something I think of as a label placed upon me by outsiders looking to reference me somehow.

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5 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 5 votes
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Balancing one's sense of self and various community identities varies.

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4 agree (100%) 0 disagree (0%) 0 needs work (0%) 4 votes

Canada's future is strongest when people maintain their cultural roots while building a shared commitment to the country's future.

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3 agree (60%) 0 disagree (0%) 2 needs work (40%) 5 votes

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1 suggestion on what needs work
  • @RichSeal define strongest. how so?

Schools should teach both Canada's shared national story and the diverse histories of the people who make up Canada.

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2 agree (40%) 0 disagree (0%) 3 needs work (60%) 5 votes

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3 suggestions on what needs work
  • @Keen Ember how to do this in the allotted time, diversity into overload?
  • @Clear Terra the challenge is how to divide time in the classroom
  • @RichSeal yes, but diversity is unbounded and seems definitionally larger than national story, so therefore, dilutive

Understanding the histories of different cultural communities helps strengthen national unity.

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2 suggestions on what needs work
  • @Light Hedgehog does it strengthen more than fragment?
  • @RichSeal unity and diversity seems to be definitionally opposing - but maybe this gives way to another dimensional category or definition

Governments should promote both national unity and the preservation of Canada's cultural diversity.

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2 agree (40%) 2 disagree (40%) 1 needs work (20%) 5 votes

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1 suggestion on what needs work
  • @Light Hedgehog it sounds like a political university?

Over time, a distinctly Canadian identity should become more important than ancestral identity for most Canadians.

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0 agree (0%) 1 disagree (20%) 4 needs work (80%) 5 votes

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4 suggestions on what needs work
  • @Clear Terra not sure what that means, like post-national identity?
  • @Light Hedgehog why more important instead of equally as a max goal?
  • @Keen Ember why not stop at equal?
  • @afomi2 probably - depends on sovereignty - and dynamics of social cohesion

Canadian identity should be based more on shared civic values than on ethnic or ancestral background.

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4 agree (80%) 0 disagree (0%) 1 needs work (20%) 5 votes

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1 suggestion on what needs work
  • @RichSeal should'ing others is something i'm cautious of

as one sees fit

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1 agree (20%) 1 disagree (20%) 3 needs work (60%) 5 votes

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1 suggestion on what needs work
  • @RichSeal huh?

What are the implications of national vs ancestral identities? or an identity at all - beyond the provision of services, interaction with others.

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0 agree (0%) 0 disagree (0%) 4 needs work (100%) 4 votes

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4 suggestions on what needs work
  • @Clear Terra not sure i fully understand the claim
  • @afomi2 question, not a claim
  • @Keen Ember needs clarification between question & claim
  • @Light Hedgehog alrighty then....

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Claims that reached 85%
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