Cultural Differences Affecting Immigrants In Canada

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It seems that the accent piece is just one more strand in this entire story of the difficulties that immigrants face in Canada. In the vast of majority of social science research examining issues affecting immigrants in Canada, language is viewed as a sign of the process of racialization and a cultural component of ethnicity. I find it very interesting how accents work as a marker not only of where they come from, but also their ethnic, education background and also their work qualifications. The vast majority of immigrants to Canada have been filtered out of job prospects because of their foreign accents. There are special labels including the terms” language minority”(LM), the “linguistically and culturally diverse”(LCD), the “culturally

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