Caste and Culture in Canadian Multiculturalism: Dismantling Perceived Homogeneity of Tamil Identity
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Abstract
Cultural disconnect for many refugees comes because of trauma from state-sanctioned violence. Refugees face cultural crises, alienating and denying them of personhood in the context of many nations’ integration processes, which are meant to alleviate cultural distress. However, efforts by refugees and immigrants to preserve their cultures in the face of Canadian multicultural integration result in a homogenization of that cultural community. Canada was the first nation to “enshrine its multiculturalism policy in legislation when Parliament passed the Canadian Multiculturalism Act” (Government of Canada, 2024). The Act includes four main objectives, which are “Recognizing and preserving the multicultural heritage of Canadians, Promoting the full and equitable participation of individuals and communities of all origins in the continuing evolution and shaping of all aspects of Canadian society, Assisting individuals and communities of all origins to eliminate barriers to their participation in Canadian society, and Assuring that all individuals receive equal treatment and equal protection under the law while respecting and valuing their diversity” (Government of Canada, 2024). This paper argues that the system of multiculturalism and integration in Canada while looking to promote “equitable participation of … communities of all origins”, fails to address the marginalization of certain groups within the homogenized communities under multiculturalism. The caste-based and cultural oppression that many members of the Eelam Tamil (ET) community face is invisible in this mode of cultural depiction. In order to most comprehensively address the treatment of caste-oppressed groups in ET communities, the gradual dismantling of caste structures and the homogenous model minority Tamil identity is necessary. This will address the roots of cultural crises among refugees within their communities and in their new homes and is necessary to ensure that the reproduction of systemic caste violence is stopped, as well as the reductionist identity that upholds such a system.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".