{"id":36,"date":"2020-02-29T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/?p=36"},"modified":"2020-02-29T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T22:31:40","slug":"assignment-3-2-question-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/2020\/02\/29\/assignment-3-2-question-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 3.2 \u2013 Question #2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. In this lesson I say that it should be clear that the discourse on nationalism is also about ethnicity and ideologies of \u201crace.\u201d If you trace the historical overview of nationalism in Canada in the CanLit<\/i> guide, you will find many examples of state<\/i> legislation and policies that excluded and discriminated against certain peoples based on ideas about racial inferiority and capacities to assimilate. \u2013 and in turn, state legislation and policies that worked to try to rectify early policies of exclusion and racial discrimination. As the guide points out, the nation is an imagined community, whereas the state is a \u201cgoverned group of people.\u201d For this blog assignment, I would like you to research and summarize one of the state or governing activities, such as The Royal Proclamation 1763, the Indian Act 1876, Immigration Act 1910, or the Multiculturalism Act 1989 \u2013 you choose the legislation or policy or commission you find most interesting. Write a blog about your findings and in your conclusion comment on whether or not your findings support Coleman\u2019s argument about the project of white civility.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Immigration Act of 1910<\/a> served to regulate and limit immigration to Canada. The Act outlined people who would be prohibited from immigrating to Canada and gave Cabinet power to refuse immigration to people who they did not consider qualified to enter Canada. This also meant that any immigrants who had been living in Canada for under three years, and as a result had not yet gained permanent residence status, could be deported if they failed to fit into the criteria decided by the government. <\/span><\/p>\n

    The Act sought to control immigration and limit who exactly was allowed to enter Canada – people with disabilities, prostitutes, jail inmates and political protesters were all catalogued as being prohibited from immigrating. There was also a minimum requirement for the amount of money that people had to have when immigrating, ranging from $25 to $200 depending on the individual\u2019s race. This clearly outlines how the Immigration Act of 1910 sought to have intense control over who was allowed in Canada and what kind of society was to be created.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    I think my findings on the Immigration Act of 1910 do support Coleman\u2019s argument about white civility, as the act of prohibiting and deporting certain people from Canada added to the \u201cfictive ethnicity\u201d dominated by British colonialism (Coleman 7). By creating such guidelines, the idea of what it meant to be Canadian was constructed, allowing for the exclusion of people who did not fit into this \u201cconstruction\u201d of Canadian \u201cwhiteness based on the British model of civility\u201d (Coleman 5).<\/span><\/p>\n

    Coleman outlines how Britain wanted to ensure that its ideals dominated Canada, with the effects of British colonialism still existing today and influencing Canada\u2019s identity despite the country being multicultural. The way in which hurtful policies such as the Immigration Act of 1910 have been ignored or forgotten by society (and perhaps are not known about by many) illustrates the need for Canada to recognize the hurtful and discriminatory ways that built the idea of Canadian identity, as it no doubt still continues to impact Canadian society<\/a> and its prejudice and racism<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Works Cited:<\/span><\/p>\n

    Cole, Desmond. \u201cThe Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole.\u201d <\/span>Penguin Random House Canada<\/span><\/i>, www.penguinrandomhouse.ca\/books\/536075\/the-skin-were-in-by-desmond-cole\/9780385686341.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Coleman, Daniel. <\/span>White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada<\/span><\/i>. University of Toronto Press Incorporated, 2006.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    \u201cImmigration Act, 1910.\u201d <\/span>Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21<\/span><\/i>, pier21.ca\/research\/immigration-history\/immigration-act-1910.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Officer, Charles. \u201cDon’t Believe The Hype: Canada Is Not a Nation of Cultural Tolerance.\u201d <\/span>CBCnews<\/span><\/i>, CBC\/Radio Canada, www.cbc.ca\/firsthand\/m_blog\/dont-believe-the-hype-canada-is-not-a-nation-of-cultural-tolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n

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    In this lesson I say that it should be clear that the discourse on nationalism is also about ethnicity and ideologies of \u201crace.\u201d If you trace the historical overview of nationalism in Canada in the CanLit guide, you will find many examples of state legislation and policies that excluded and discriminated against certain peoples based … Continue reading Assignment 3.2 \u2013 Question #2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl372indrai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}