Cultural Hybrids under the Canadian Multiculturalism Policy

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Hybrids under the Canadian Multiculturalism Policy
According to Viswanathan (13), cities are lively, exciting assorted places with diverse people all drawn to the cities for various reasons. The opportunities of the international labor market have actually contributed to the migration of skilled labor force throughout the globe and consequently, to wide-ranging labor market flexibility within metropolitan areas. This flexibility, as Viswanathan (13) pointed out, is reflected amongst urban populations of the underemployed, especially amongst new immigrants. In the source text, Viswanathan (13) tries to initiate a conversation that looks into the chances of considering hybridity with respect to community building in Canadian cities. Hybridity is a dynamic entity that is at all times in the process of being and becoming at the same time. Hybrid identities are susceptible to transformation.
Assuming a single women of Indian descent but is a Canadian citizen, her hybridity can be seen to be constructed via processes that are drawn from the colonial histories of her country of origin, India, as well as the stories of her many years of experience residing in Canada as a Canadian citizen (Viswanathan 13). This illustrates how the hybridity of an individual woman is really informed over space and time by her immigrant history, spatial location, as well as experience being classified as a sole parent, single income Asian resident of bi-cultural though apparently multicultural nation of Canada. According to Viswanathan (13), transnational identities could change as geographies and histories are reconstructed when individuals move back and forth from Canada and their mother countries, and consequently create different economic, cultural, and social relationships between these locations and countries. These transnational identities are created, re-created, and changed such that hybridity could evoke, complicate, and get rid of national boundaries. Hybridity needs to go beyond transnationality (Viswanathan 14). Individuals comprise manifold and complexly constructed identities.
Viswanathan (14) pointed out that there would be aspects of ourselves which are actually placed in social margins and/or in subordination to other aspects considering the power relations within the state, and each aspect might operate on an individual in various ways. The struggle within and through hybridity offers possible basis for processes of anti-oppression, anti-racism, and anti-discrimination and the level of the self as well as the society (Viswanathan 14). The fact that everyone is a hybrid, although not in the same manner, could be transformational and not an affirmation of assimilation into a hypothetical general norm within cities. Hybridity is not just what people are in cities; it is actually part of a process of becoming in the metropolis, even through people’s struggles for community-building, commonality, and recognition of differences (Viswanathan 15).
Facts of Canadian history in relation to hybrids under immigration policies that closely relate to multiculturalism
Canada’s universal and equal policy of 1862 accentuates equality amongst the different ethnic populations in the Can...