The Social Eudemonia of Immigrants in ‘The New World’: A Critique of Michael Ondaatje's<i>In the Skin of a Lion</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The process of colonisation has brought about several changes in the socio-cultural condition of the colonised countries as the imperialistic policy of waging wars against the third-world countries induced millions of people to migrate from their homeland to distant lands. In the novel ‘In the Skin of a Lion’, Ondaatje traces the inception of the process of migration to Canada and explicates the condition that leads to the multicultural social and cultural scenario of Canada. Moreover, he portrays the bourgeois tendency of colonisers who utilised the manual labour of the migrants and rarely provided suitable living and working conditions. This article has made a scrupulous study on the interconnection between the socio-cultural condition and the identity of an individual. This study claims that as the stable self represents the psychological wellbeing, individuals should strive hard to maintain their mental health and thereby play a significant role in the social development of the country. Ondaatje insists the government of the countries to acknowledge the contributions of all races and afford healthy living conditions to foster social eudemonia of the immigrants in ‘the new world’. He believes that the discouragement of ghettoisation, violence and racial discrimination would create endearing circumstances for the peaceful coexistence of various cultural groups. He affirms the need for the insistence on the value and dignity of all people regardless of their racial or ethnic origins, language or their religious affiliation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.052 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".