The overall impression is that both sides of immigration equation certain about how absorption into Canadian society will benefit immigrant youth, parents and the recipient state. But immigration decision makers all together are kind of reluctant to ask themselves detailed questions about what social and cultural gaps particular immigrant youth would or would not be able to bridge in a new environment. In other words how would the resultant blend or solution of social values of immigrant youth come out? Would they meet the expectations of interested sides? Is this mixture something newcomers' family has been dreaming about or at least will be able to cope with? What would the new members of Canadian society bring to it? How would they change Canadian social landscape and image of the country?

In Toronto high schools one can easily find all spectrum of ethnic youth enclaves. They in geographical order are: Korean, Chinese, Tamil, Punjabi, Iranian, Russian, Israeli, Palestinian, and Albanian to name few. Black enclaves, one cannot miss, tend to incorporate youth on cross-country or cluster bases. As a form of youth self-identification all of them have got similar mechanics of formation and cooptation of new members. Each of them has got different from others but common for the group combination of dress and linguistic codes supported by defined music, body language and overall image that roughly reflects and stage national character in modern Canadian urban environment.

Ethnic self-identification of immigrant youth eclipses in the high school. Notwithstanding the fact that it is easier for them to communicate in English they developing mother tongue based group code languages. The lunchtime picture of Toronto public high school looks like Babylon Tower construction site right after the God mixed the languages. Here is Iranian corner. There are two Black ends, each of which representing different communities. Between Korean and Chinese circles stands so-called Russian crowd of Israelis, Kazakhs, Moldovans, etc and of course Russians still united by the spirit of demised Soviet Union. Armenians will be somehow separate and connected at the sae tine with Russians. Punjabis like Tamils roaming in big boys gangs but separately.

To start with, let's consider social activities contemporary immigrant youth is involved in most. They seem to be not much in congregations or cultural events their parents or their ethnic communities taking part in. Neither North American or Canadian youth initiatives or NGOs happened to be really popular among immigrant youth. On surface are ethnic based socializing and street grouping only.

It is natural for teens to see the world in highly polarized way, take simplicity and clarity of the answer for the ultimate rightness and then zealously stand for it. Youth maximalism facilitates preeminence of feudalist mentality over democracy in the youth world. What saves youth for democratic society is its ability to change its position and learn to respect different opinion. There is also something that could prevent certain categories of youth from natural social development when they remain stack in ethnic enclave life for some reasons.

In the attempt to resolve this problem youngsters are trying on whole spectrum of images in the range from "pure Canadian" to "ethnically adamant" ones. Thus, at the elementary school level immigrant kids tend to integrate into the class and school community demonstrating high level of assimilation. This assimilation usually does not contradict with maintaining close connection with parents and feeling of belonging to the family language and culture. At the level of middle or junior-high schools one can encounter the beginning of two trends in reversed direction. Immigrant kids start to group by ethnicity. But oddly enough it goes along with acute rejection of their parents' and family values. Typical for teens process of social self-identification leaves immigrant youth one-on-one with virtual ethnic role models and dependant on virtual life experience.

The last resort immigrant youth could get reality check from for its virtual experience, is not seamless itself. Their peers, interaction with whom should validate obtained virtual experience, ideas and values, themselves highly exposed to the spelli

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