Bibliographic record
Abstract
Ryan, Phil. Multicultiphobia. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 279 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $24.95 sc. The author has produced an interesting and thought-provoking overview and analysis of problematic condition of the Canadian body politic that he has labelled multicultiphobia--a diffuse and widespread anxiety created not only by the existence and criticisms of multiculturalism. The author makes it very clear that his goal is neither to argue ... that multiculturalism is wonderful thing and that we have nothing to fear from it, nor that multicultiphobia is really something else in disguise: racism, nostalgia for lost WASP world, or yearning for past that never existed (5). Instead, his stated goal is to point out that multicultiphobia is very influential in our society and, therefore, must be examined for the purpose of identifying a range of issues which we need to (5). This book should be read by anyone interested in Canada's multicultural composition, multiculturalism public philosophy, public discourse, and public policy. It will appeal to academics and their students at the senior undergraduate and graduate levels, policy advocates, policy makers, and anyone else who wishes to understand the aforementioned facets of Canada's multicultural legacy and multicultiphobia. The book consists of four major parts. Part I provides useful overview and analysis of the following: the multi-faceted conceptualization of the multiple components of multiculturalism; the genesis and evolution of multiculturalism philosophy, discourse, and policy in Canada; and notable critical works of multiculturalism produced during the past two decades. This includes Reginald Bibby's Mosaic Madness, Neil Bissoondath's Selling Illusions, Richard Gwyn's Nationalism Without Walls, and Jack Granatstein's Who Killed Canadian History? This part of the book also provides an overview and analysis of the discourses on multiculturalism that were articulated in Parliament and in the media prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in the United States. Part II focuses on multiculturalism after 9/11. More specifically, it focuses on the interrelationship of immigration, multiculturalism, and security that resulted from the 9/11 terrorist attacks. It also provides an overview of commentaries by Daniel Stoffman and Martin Collacott regarding the adverse effects of problematical facets of immigration policies on Canada. The other two chapters in that section deal, in turn, with the amount and type of attention that multiculturalism has received in Parliament and in the media. The author expresses concerns ways that both entities have dealt with multiculturalism and multicultiphobia in the post-9/11 era. Part III of the book focuses on the issue of what we need to talk about to minimize multicultiphobia anxiety and maximize peaceful and respectful co-existence in multicultural Canada. …
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.052 | 0.019 |
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".