Critical Multiculturalism and Nation-Building Exploring Systemic Racism in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction In Plato’s book “The Republic”, he introduces the idea of a myth as a method of social control and the maintenance of status quo. He used the “myth of the metals” as a technique to maintain harmony in the Athenian polis. As such, notions of justice became predicated on one’s willingness to maintain harmony with the city-state. Therefore, anything that challenged or went against the established order was considered a threat to the organic whole. The bureaucratic nature of such an apparatus thus “acts as [a] collective memory [that carries] forward [the] values, principles and traditions” of the polity (Tator 104). Similar to the myth of the metals, Canadian multiculturalism is also a myth a “myth [that] attempts to explain, rationalize, and resolve insupportable contradictions and problems in [Canadian] society” (Tator 104). Canadian institutions are therefore inherently endowed with the responsibility to maintain the status quo; they do so through policies such as the Multiculturalism Act of 1971 that feed the embedded discourses within the apparatus.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".