Cross Cultural Diversity In Canada

Naturally, the way we deal with diversity is organizing people into groups with different cultures. The focus of this article is to end cross-cultural research’s emphasis on our differences and bring people together by focusing on our similarities. The problem is that we tend to focus on the differences by categorizing people based on their language, ethnicity, or religion in multi- cultural societies. The media is a large contributor to strengthening stereotypes the continue to focus on differences. For example, articles about Asian students enrolled in Canadian Universities portrayed them as “high achievers who focus intensely on academics, but are so achievement-oriented that they have limited social

The article researchers discuss a study that they have done the primarily focused on the differences of second generation Canadians and Euro Canadians social behaviors. They decided to turn it around and focus on the similarities now. Their study evaluated congeniality, tradition, and status of South Asians, Italians, Chinese, and Europeans. Naturally their focus was on the major differences in traditions, but since we are focused on similarities now, they found that across the board they all highly valued the same types of characteristics in a mate. They found that they cannot “equate the absence of a statistical difference with similarity, nor test for equivalence because there are no theoretical or empirical grounds to do so, based on the existing literature (Lalonde, Cila, Lou & Cribble, 2015).” But a researcher should at least point out similarities found in studies in the absence of statistically significant results. They concluded that focusing on more positive commonalities can help begin peace in many