Conditions and Assumptions about Gender Roles, Racial Issues, and Immigration in Canada

Running head: SOCIAL RESAERCH
Social Research
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1SOCIAL RESAERCH
The aim of this essay is to develop an idea about the conditions and assumptions about
gender roles, racial issues, immigration issues in the country and many other things before Points
System had been invented in Canada in the year 1967. The fact must be addressed that Canadian
Points System is mainly concerned with the immigration policies of Canada. From the beginning
of the eighteenth century, many people across the world began to move to Canada because of
blooming business opportunities there. Canada is generally a country where people from
numerous cultural and language backgrounds, ethnicities and races stay together. In this essay,
the role of class, gender, ethnic backgrounds and races will be discussed regarding the
implementation of Points System from 1967 onwards (Dossa, 2008). Cultural diversity has
always been a very strong fact in Canada so it has been quite important to discuss what attributes
can be given in terms of linguistic competency, condition of women being victims of racial
society and many more (Lee, 1999).
Women have been one of the most miserable victims of racial events in Canada. In the
culturally diverse society, women have become regular victims of this property. In the later
years, feminist movements became quite regular and overall condition of women began to
improve (Dossa, 2008). The legislation of Canada might have provided the guarantee that all
women living and earning honestly will be provided with equal rights on health, education and
other factors. Therefore, it has been quite a problematic situation that these women have been
deprived of their several facilities within Canadian soil. The various economic, legal, social and
political systems of Canada have been very much crucial to underline the condition of immigrant
women in Canada (Lee, 1999). These inequalities have hampered the lives of women immigrants
in the society. It has been very regularly seen that Muslim immigrant women have been deprived

2SOCIAL RESAERCH
of their several opportunities regarding health care (Guo, 2018). They have not received proper
health facilities when they have fallen seriously ill far away from their home.
The stereotypical racism has been very much evident in the society as well. This is
because white men have been provided with more privileges than people of other countries and
ethnicities. Some people of Canada still believe in the stereotypical factors regarding identity of
people. For example, it can be said that many international students from Asia have been victims
of racial issues within Canadian territory. Therefore, those people have been sometimes accused
of theft in big shops (Dossa, 2008). They have said that no one acts in this way after thorough
investigation by they behave in that way only on the basis of the stereotypical behaviors. Native
white people of Canada behave towards them in such a manner that they feel they are guilty.
Stereotypical behaviors and assumptions of these people have been quite problematic for the
international immigrants to thrive in the hostile territory (Abu-Laban, 1998).
Inferential racism has been quite evident in different parts of Canada before the
assumption of this Point System in 1967. Nowadays, immigrants from different countries feel
safe that they do not have to fear about being neglected and harasses in Canada i.e. mostly
unknown to them (Dossa, 2008). The workplaces in Canada are full of racial complications as
well. Recently, a teenager of black skin has been shot dead by a white police in Canada. This is
why cultural and religious factors have come to be much evident in Canada over the years. The
Indian Act is the legislation for Governance for First Nations people in Canada (Bailey, 2016).
Therefore, inferential racism was a big factor when describing the condition of immigrants
within Canada. Mostly immigrants in Canada are becoming victims of racism everyday and this
had been a rising concern for administration of the country (Abu-Laban, 1998). This practice left
an indelible mark on the minds of immigrant students, women and others.