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Question 11: Values and Culture

Should Canada seek out opportunities for fostering global intercultural dialogue and interfaith understanding?

 

 

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Contributor:sunrise
Date: 2003-04-30 16:32:42
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Definitely, but we should also encourage such dialogue, internally, within Canada, in a somewhat similar way.
Encouraging such understanding could become an important
of childrens' formal education. We should promote the education in values around the world. Learning non-violence and cooperation in elementary school is more important than learning math, as important as they both are.
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