Today, we discussed the readings "Sikhs in Canada",The Book of Negroes excerpt, and the episode of True Crimes Canada: The Shafia Family, which we watched yesterday. You are to have critiques filled in on all of these for class today so we can discuss them in some depth. From examining these three texts, we can see that racism (intolerance) is a common thread. Whether the intolerance is directed at the immigrant group (as in the negroes once there was a shortage of jobs, or the Sikhs in fear that Canada could be negatively influenced by others with differing beliefs), or is extended outward into society (Shafia's mysogynistic attitude toward women as well as his insistance that there be no adaptation to Canadian society, including adapting to the laws), we start to see that there are some common threads in the immigrant experience. I then instructed you to read the excerpt "None is too Many", by Irving Abella and Harold Troper. you are also to complete a text critique on this.
Keep in mind that, from our discussion today, common topic words that appear are:
Violence
intolerance
segregation
oppression
race/religious differences
cultural differences
power
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