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Do you believe that because Canada is a multicultural society that there is no racism? While the idea of inclusion and buried racism is what one might hope for, the realities of Canada’s national policy when experienced is quiet opposite than the messages expressed though text and other media outlets. Canada is suppose to be a multicultural society which includes all races and cultural backgrounds, everyone is suppose to be included and accepted in our group instead there are instances of discrimination and marginalization to certain racialized groups that have entered Canada the land that is promised to be of freedom and inclusion for all. Multiculturalism is a fundamental characteristic of the Canadian heritage and identity it is what fills our national center. (Harmony 2014). Multiculturalism has been a good policy designed to give people a great impression of our country yet: The Novels Indian Horse (2012) by Richard Wagamese and Obasan (1981) by Joy Kogawa portrays acts of violence, terror, exclusion and hardship. It is observed through reading and analysis that Racism is a never-ending struggle that people of minority backgrounds who immigrate to the land of the free have to endure. Finally, Racism stifles and affects everyone negatively who is an immigrant in the Canadian society; multiculturalism is only a façade which serves to cover up the root of the problem.
Marginalization based on racism affected Saul and Naomi in a way where they were excluded and pushed to the margins of society. They weren’t the only ones who experience such marginality; their families were also affected negatively due to this racism. To make clear. “Marginalization is to relegate or confine to a lower or outer limit or edge, as of s...

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...am are made to feel as outsiders looking in, into a culture they belong to they have become almost invisible to playing this game.
Further, when Saul joins the Toronto Marilee’s, he is seen to be excluded by even his fellow team mates, when he sits on the bench there is a space between them and even though the space isn’t wide, that’s enough for him to know he’s not a part of the team. “
“ When I refused to retaliate, my teammates started leaving a space around me on the bench. I sat alone in a territory of emptiness, eight inches on either side of me announcing to everyone that I was different, that I was nor welcome even among my own.” (Wagamese 164). So it is in the Canadian society someone like Saul is not welcomed in a culture that fosters multiculturalism, equality and inclusion for all. All there is racism, hardship and violence at that point in history.

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