A Compayative Study of Multiculturalism and Assimilation in Canada, the US and Australia

以下是我们在上述标题下的研究结果总结：(1)所研究的三个国家的多元文化主义是在各自文化中，在建立民族统一的过程中，出于社会和政治的需要而产生的。这三个国家都是英国的殖民地，他们继承了民主和议会。(3)多元文化主义的兴起与人权哲学和反种族运动的兴起有着密切的关系。(4)这三个国家的原住民（因纽特人、美洲原住民和土著）认为自己是真正的第一居民，因此反对多元文化主义。(5)多元文化主义意味着一个多民族的社会，它是由土著民族、欧洲移民、非欧洲移民、奴隶后裔、难民等各种民族组成的，他们对多元文化主义的态度并不一致。(6)多元文化主义在本质上取代了民族国家，因此归结为这两种思想是互不相容的。(7)全球化以英语的国际化和以美国为首的信息技术革命的传播为代表，是对少数民族的强大同化力量。(8)即使多元文化主义在一定程度上实现了它的目标，但是诸如在不同文化中对待性别的不同方式，以及在以基督教为主的文化中对待穆斯林的方式等问题仍然是问题。

The following is the summary of our research findings under the above-mentioned title:(1) Multiculturalism in the three countries studied was borne out of social and political necessity in the respective cultures, in the process of establishing national unity.(2) All the three countries were British colonies, and they inherited democracy and parliament.(3) The rise of multiculturalism is deeply related with the rise of human rights philosophy and anti-racial movements.(4) The native peoples in the three countries (the Inuit, Native Americans, and the Aborigines) consider themselves to be the authentic first inhabitants, and are as such against multiculturalism.(5) Multiculturalism implies a multi-ethnic society, which is composed of native peoples, European: immigrants, non-European immigrants, descendants of slaves, refugees and such variety of peoples, who are not in unison as to the attitudes towards multiculturalism.(6) Multiculturalism inherently supercedes nation-states, and thus it boils down to the fact that the two ideas are incompatible with each other.(7) Globalization is represented by internationalization of English and the spread of IT revolution lead by the US, and thus it serves as a powerful assimilation force towards the minority groups.(8) Even if multiculturalism attains its goal to some extent, problems such as different treatment of gender in different cultures, and the treatment of Muslims within a predominantly Christian culture will remain being problems.