Future
Directions
nDecline of ethnic
identity?
nNeed to focus on ethnic identity performance of
specific ethnic groups
and not lump all immigrants together (and their second generation)
nWhat is most clearly pointed to by our work is the
need for more, as well
as bigger, studies that look at the experience of minority young people outside of the major urban centres of
Canada and the
United States. The complexity with which the young people in our study expressed their experience of pride and
marginality needs to
be given further expression in order for us to be able to draw a much fuller picture of the experience of
social difference and
Canadian identities in Canada as a whole, not just in Canada as Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. The experiences
of minority young
people living outside major diasporic communities has a lot to teach us about what it means to be Canadian and
may enlighten regional
leaders, community-based and policy-makers,
about how to make
their cities and towns into places where minority youth feel welcome today and want to stay tomorrow.
