Racial Discrimination in the Canadian Workplace

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This paper examines the issue of racism in Canada. The paper points out that, contrary to popular belief, minorities in Canada do suffer from racism; this is most notable in the workplace. The paper argues that the problem of racism in Canada is deeper than meets the eye and that the Aboriginal peoples experience the greatest amount of racism. Three separate studies on racism in the workplace and the results of these studies are summarized and analyzed. The paper concludes by noting that all three studies indicate that racism is more often directed toward minorities of color than other minorities.

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"Since it is regarded, in Canada's very polite social mores, to talk much about money, it is not surprising that few know that "Foreign-born visible minorities earned, on average, 78 cents for every dollar earned by a foreign-born white Canadian". (CRR Web site, 2001) The nation is so polite, in fact, that only 7 percent of respondents to a recent questionnaire for a Statistics Canada survey reported experiencing discrimination or unfair treatment "because of their ethno-cultural characteristics in the past five years". (Keung, 2003) Among visible minority groups, however, 20 percent of those 15 and older said they had been victims of racism, an the more visible the group, the more likely they were to report instances of racism, with nearly one-third of blacks, 21 percent of South Asians, and 18 percent of Chinese reporting racial incidents."

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