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Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Multiculturalism |
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| Format | Softcover | |
| Catalogue No. | 978-0-14-305014-8 | |
| Pages | 250 | |
| Language | English only | |
| Price | $20.00 | |
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| Written by Michael Adams. Published by Penguin Group, 2007. Preface to the paperback edition published 2008. Description: |
| Unlikely Utopia is a good-news story about
Canadian multiculturalism. It challenges the increasingly prevalent attitude
that Canada is being overwhelmed by immigrants who are not integrating into
mainstream society. With the highest immigration rate in the world, Canada has
a particularly large stake in the experiment of social diversity. Around the world, sectarian tensions divide societies, sometimes erupting into violent confrontation. Some pundits argue that similar convulsions will shake Canada's multicultural foundations. But Michael Adams argues that Canadians don't see this as inevitable. Far from being disabused of their naïveté by the world's conflicts and bloodshed, Adams believes Canadians suspect that the world might just be disabused of its "realism" by the success of the Canadian multicultural experiment. Renowned pollster and social analyst Michael Adams argues spiritedly that Canadians retain their fundamental openness to people from other cultures—despite strident voices expressing concern about "ethnic enclaves" and other supposed signs of social fracture. Featuring data from the country's first-ever poll of Muslim Canadians, getting behind the headlines of stories about ethnic strife in Quebec, and querying Canadians on their views about each other, Unlikely Utopia depicts a country that is mostly optimistic and adaptable. A muscular defence of pluralism, Unlikely Utopia is a declaration about the future of Canada, a future of greater promise and greater human import than any Canadian might dare to imagine. "Unlikely Utopia should be required reading. It brings a welcome note of reasonableness to an increasingly unreasonable debate. While Adams by no means pretends that Canada is perfect when it comes to juggling a myriad of races ... he does say we are global experts at it. This is a book that should quell some fears and invoke some pride in every Canadian" – The Gazette (Montreal) |
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