Jun
4
2009
Multicultural Net
In a modern society, everything and everyone is connected. All those who live in big metropolitan areas are like nodes in a net. We depend on each other. We survive, prosper and flourish or we stagnate, linger on and die together. The metaphor that suggests that a country like Canada is like a net has been used before but, more than ever, it serves the purpose of taking the pulse of this culture that boastfully talks about its multiculturalism, its cultural mosaic and its immigration policies.
A net, as Manuel Castells defines in his book The Rise of the Network Society is an “open structure capable of limitless expansion, assimilating new nodes as long as they can communicate inside the net”.
