The World on a Maple Leaf

“Canada with its regional, linguistic and cultural diversity, has never been easy to govern” by The Globe and Mail,June13,

1994 ,A12

Young Country

1. Its been established in 1867.

2. Older than Italy and Germany.

3. Older than United Nation also.

4. 51 when Iraq and Austria were came into being.

Small Country Except Geography

1. Population is more then most major countries.

2. Poppulation of 34.88 million, bigger than australia (22.68

million) [census 2012]

3. Canadian economy is 7th largest in world.

Amalgamation Of Different Culture

• One of the most homogeneous country in the world.• Only two official languages, nothing compared to

united state or britain.• Same culture in almost whole part of country. example :- same culture when we go from

vancouver in west to kingston region in central.

Two Unique Nation Under One Roof

•Even Spain has Catalans and Chechens. •Canada has French- English divide.•Russia has 9 nations.•Canada shares host of common attitudes.

Overstated Ethnic Differrence

•Less ethnic difference than United State•In the recent study C.D.Howe Institute.called it as “CANADIAN MOSAIC”•It is distinct than the American “melting pot”•Different ethnic background are treated same in canada

Vacabulary

1. Linguistic- Scientific study of language

2. Francophone- French-speaking

3. Dialect- a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular

group of the language's speakers or social class

4. Homogeneous-composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population.

5. Illusion –something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.