Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph Of Canadian Pluralism

by Michael Adams

Around the world, sectarian tensions divide societies, sometimes erupting into violent confrontation. Some pundits argue that similar convulsions will shake Canada’s multicultural foundations. But Michael Adams argues that Canadians don’t see this as inevitable. Adams believes that far from being disabused of their naïveté by the world’s conflicts and bloodshed, Canadians suspect that the world might just be disabused of its "realism"by the success of the Canadian multicultural experiment. By focusing on the more mundane task of helping people of all kinds get along—both materially and socially—Canada may prove to be the experiment that worked.

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 25, 2007

About the author

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Michael Adams is the president of the Environics group of research and communications consulting companies which he co-founded in 1970. In 2006 he founded the Environics Institute for Survey Research, where he also serves as President.

Mr. Adams is also the author of six books, including: Sex in the Snow: Canadian Social Values at the End of the Millennium (1997); Fire and Ice: The United States, Canada and the Myth of Converging Values, (2003); and Unlikely Utopia: The Surprising Triumph of Canadian Pluralism (2007). Fire and Ice won the prestigious 2003/04 Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian public policy and was selected in the fall of 2005 by the Literary Review of Canada as one of the 100 most important books ever published in the country.

Reviews

[Brenda]

This was a great read. Lots of statistics - but a pleasant read as well. You'd have to read other books on the subject to see whether or not you agree with his conclusions.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really great points made about Canada's multicultural experiment. I would suggest this to anyone who would like a better understanding of why we don't have race riots (yet).

[Esther A · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very good book that gives an educational and interesting insight of Canada's multiculturalism

[Alexis · Rating 2 out of 5]

A short book, more like an essay really, about Canadian multiculturalism.