| 单词 | canadian mosaic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCanadian mosaic Canadian mosaic n. Canadian society regarded as resembling a mosaic in its diversity, with each religious, cultural, and ethnic group retaining its distinctive features while forming an integrated whole; this as an ideal or policy.Sometimes contrasted with the idea of the blended ‘melting pot’ of the United States: see melting pot n. 3b. ΚΠ 1922 V. Hayward Romantic Canada xxiv. 187 It [sc. Canada] is indeed a mosaic of vast dimensions and great breadth.] 1926 K. A. Foster (title) Our Canadian mosaic. 1938 J. M. Gibbon Canad. Mosaic 425 The finest and strongest cement of the Canadian Mosaic is the training provided in Canadian schools. 1965 Prelim. Rep. Royal Comm. Bilingualism & Biculturalism (Canada) iii. 46 The answer they often gave was ‘multiculturalism’, or more elaborately, ‘the Canadian mosaic’. 1984 J. C. Young in J. R. Mallea & J. C. Young Cultural Diversity & Canad. Educ. Issues vi. 417 The..English-Canadian nationalism which sought to distinguish Canada from the United States by asserting the existence of the Canadian ‘mosaic’ in contrast to the American ‘melting pot’. 2015 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 6 Nov. a16 The ideal of the Canadian Mosaic is alive and well in Ottawa. < as lemmas |
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