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Anthropology as Cosmopolitan Study | By Nigel Rapport, Director, Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, Concordia University, Montreal |
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‘Cosmopolitan study’ is that Kantian anthropology of humanity which considers ‘the human’ to exist as a complex singularity over and above proximal categorizations and identifications of nation, ethnicity, class, religion, gender, locale, and so on. Professor Nigel Rapport, Founding Director of Concordia’s Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies, and Canada Research Chair in Globalisation, Citizenship and Justice, examines the concept of cosmopolitanism for Tolerance.ca ®.
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I am English Canadian | | By Charles Blattberg, Université de Montréal |
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Surely the time has come for us to stop hiding from the truth. It is that, like the English, Scots, Welsh and Irish in Britain, like the Spanish, Basques and Catalans in Spain, like the Flemish and Walloons in Belgium, like the Jews and Arabs in Israel, and like the Québécois and First Nations in Canada, we English Canadians form a nation.
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New Approaches to Tolerance | | By Victor Teboul, Ph.D., Université de Montréal, Editor, Tolerance.ca® |
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Spencer Tunick,
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Algerian-born Albert Camus once said that his homeland was the French language:« Ma patrie, c’est la langue française ». In a certain way, we belong to a language more than we do to a country. While writing La Lente Découverte de l’étrangeté, I realized how the languages of my home-town, Alexandria, were deeply rooted in me. I discovered I belonged to the languages, idioms, idiosyncrasies, that were part of that city at a certain period in time.
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