There are many differences between what is seen as an equality or inequality

depending on who you ask and who you compare with who. Social inequality is a great

issue in Canada and it has been perpetuated by globalization through conflicting status

within a society in regard to women, class and immigration conflicts. Racial inequality is

imbedded in the history of Canada, and religious oppression can create social tensions. My Commented [A1]: If you are talking about the three
inequality issues, why would you add in the racial inequality,
unless you want to connect with immigration inequality?
parents landed in Canada with many dreams but as soon as they came, they faced
These two sentences are not connected. If your thesis is the
former, it makes no sense to add a filler- redundant.
discrimination whether it was through ethnicity, race, language or religion and it got

accentuated through her socio-economic state. This conflicts with Chapter 23 of “What Do

Canadians Think About Individualism and Inequality”, as it talks about how Canada is

widely seen as one of the best societies in the world in which to live” (Hwang & Grabb, p.

319). Therefore, we will explore the social inequality in Canada through the lens of social

structure- women, class and immigration.

I was born into a Chinese middle-class Christian family, on mainland China. My

family’s ethnicity is Han, and this is the major ethnicity of most of China’s population. I grew

up being taught to see genders as this person and that person instead o him and her. I was

taught gender neutrality due to massive inequality in China between men and women, and my

parents didn’t want me growing up to it. When my family and I moved to Canada, the need

for the highest education and the best jobs became even more than before required.

Being Chinese often means that people will assume that my parents are very rich and that I

am very smart before I get to prove my academic skills, this can be very offensive but is seen

as an advantage. I also have young Chinese friends who are very smart and have their own

businesses, but because people assume that their parents own all the money, they lack

confidence in the person skills. Being in my early twenties unlocks a great deal more

opportunities than when I was younger, and if someone wants more experience or more

maturity (by age), I am getting closer every day, and not further away. While my family

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considered to be a middle-class family in China, I think that in Canada my family is to be

considered above the middle-class because of my parents having so called white-collar jobs,

their children are in university, we have two big houses and nice cars (Understanding

Inequality: Theories and Concepts II). This advantage helps me to pay for school, have a car,

eat out and buy things I like. It also lets me focus on my academics without having to work

some twenty, or more hours a week unless I have time to spare.

Two major disadvantage of being Chinese is that there are chances that my pay will be lower

than it would for a Caucasian person (Understanding Inequality: Theories and Concepts II) as

well as a lot of people who don’t like Chinese people (positively a lot more who loves the

Chinese) and I believe that this can affect my opportunities in the future when I’m looking for

new jobs. Being in my early twenties has its disadvantages too, every year that goes by, I

might lose the opportunity to become someone in a specific field of work, depending on the

company and if they favour older or younger people. It can also be that I am too young for a

company I want to work for today, but I won’t be able to fit in due to my age for another 10

years, around the age of thirty which is when most believe that individuals start to think about

their careers and become serious about their work. Being a higher middle-class family in

Canada doesn’t have too many disadvantages, but if I want to work for a Chinese company, it

could affect me both in bad or good ways. Commented [A2]: Generally it is well-written. But too
much “personal stuff”. Instead, write more on instances on
equality that one can observe in Canada related to your
In Canada, a country who has been gaining a great amount of multiculturalism in a short thesis (the three inequalities: women in the public or at
work, class differences, and immigration status. These
should be your main three points and split evenly in three
time-span, we are seeing issues with equality for new immigrant, people of colour, different paragraphs. Make it simple. A lot of things can be found on
the books, the slides (eg: on women inequalities, there are
ethnicities and religions. (Hwang & Grabb, p. 319). Unfortunately, most Canadians are pictures and talks about how most high-positions are held
by men in at York University and the difference in wage),
and the film (must use for high marks)
accepting the fact that we have inequality (Hwang & Grabb, p. 327). We can see that no

matter the education, white people have a higher pay than non-white, by looking at graphs

mentioned in ‘What Do Canadians Think about Individualism and Inequality? The Effects of

Social Status’ (Hwang & Grabb, p. 324). Having a higher pay-scale usually comes with

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higher education, more experience and investment of years in a company. But we know that

there are other factors, as gender, ethnicity, religion and political views. While being a

middle-class or upper-middle-class usually means higher education, which leads to higher

pay, a middle-class person does at the same time have the opportunity to get a higher pay for

the same experience or job, as a person in the lower-class, even if they perform the same job

within the same timeframe (Hwang & Grabb, p. 324).

In conclusion, I will consider that my social location is in the middle of it all,

considering age, ethnicity, race, sex, religion. We can’t get away from our social location, we

can’t change who we are born as, but we can change how we treat others and how we decide

to make our country an equal community for everyone, although inequality is embraced by

most Canadians. We currently are seeing issues with equality for new immigrant, people of

colour, different ethnicities and religions, less fluent in English, non-French or English

speakers. We can see that no matter the education, white individuals have a higher pay than

non-white. And middle-class individuals do at the same time have the opportunity to for a

higher pay for the same experience or job, as a person in the lower-class.

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Bibliography
Hwang, M., & Grabb, E. (2017). Social Inequality in Canada (p. 319-327).

(n.d.). Understanding Inequality: Theories and Concepts II.

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