“Canadian, Eh?”: An Examination of the Multidimensional Structure and Functions of the National Identity of Immigrants and of Those Raised in Canada
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Abstract
Three studies examined the national identity of Canadian immigrants. In Study 1, immigrant leaders were interviewed about their Canadian identity. Content analysis revealed themes that were used to create items for the Immigrants’ Canadian Identity Scale (ICIS). Then a large sample of immigrants (Study 2a) and Canadians raised in Canada (Study 2b) completed the ICIS and a variety of other variables. Factor analyses revealed a shared social representation of what it means to be Canadian with five dimensions. Two dimensions, belonging and self-categorization, were generic. The other three dimensions were unique to Canadian identity and show that being Canadian is to live in a multicultural society that supports cultural and civic freedoms. Regression analyses demonstrate that different dimensions served different functions. The value of taking an inductive approach to the study of particular group identities so as to reveal their unique qualities is discussed. Trois études ont examiné l’identité des immigrants canadiens. Dans la première étude, les dirigeants immigrants ont été interrogés sur leur identité canadienne. L’analyse du contenu a révélé des thèmes qui ont été utilisés pour créer des points pour l’Echelle Identitaire des Immigrants canadiens (ICIS - EIIC). Puis, un grand échantillon d’immigrants (étude 2a) ainsi que les canadiens élevés au Canada (étude 2b) ont complété le ICIS – EIIC et une variété d’autres variables. L’analyse factorielle a révélé une représentation de ce que signifie être canadien avec cinq dimensions. Deux dimensions, celles d’appartenance et d’auto-catégorisation étaient génériques. Les trois autres dimensions étaient uniques à l’identité canadienne et montrent qu’être Canadien est de vivre dans une société multiculturelle qui soutient les libertés civiques et culturelles. L’analyse de régression démontre que différentes dimensions servent différentes fonctions. L’importance d’adopter une approche inductive à l’étude des identités de groupe particuliers est une manière de révéler que leur qualité unique est examinée.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".