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This category deals with issues relating to single ethnic, racial or cultural groups, such as Black Nova Scotians, Arab Maritimers or people of Celtic heritage.

For sites dealing with the relationship between cultural or ethnic groups, visit this sub-category, Multiculturalism.

Sites that will not be accepted in this category are those where the ethnicity or cultural heritage is not a central theme, such as a local newspaper dealing with general issues, whose publisher happens to be of Haitian heritage.

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This category deals cultural identity issues resulting from racial or cultural ties or ancestry.

Acadian

This category welcomes sites dealing with Acadian cultural issues and events as they apply to the province of Nova Scotia. Web sites must offer English text to be listed here.

The French arrived on the shores of present-day Nova Scotia in 1604, with the hopes of establishing a permanent colony. After spending the winter of 1604-1605 on Sainte-Croix Island off the coast of present-day Maine, Pierre du Gua, Sieur DeMonts and his men moved their colony to Port Royal in the sheltered Annapolis Valley. In 1605, these French explorers built a fortification which they named in honor of the King's geographer on the expedition, Samuel de Champlain. He called the land "La Cadie", a derivative of "L' Arcadie", the name given to the region early in the sixteenth century by the Italian explorer Verrazano.

Celtic

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This category accepts sites dealing with Celtic culture in Nova Scotia. It will accept sites in English, or English and Scottish Gaelic. Gaelic-only sites without an English version belong in a subcategory of http://dmoz.org/World/Gàidhlig .

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Celt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

1 : a member of a division of the early Indo-European peoples who swept into Western Europe around 500 BC and occupied the lands west of the Rhine; England, Belgium, France, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany and Galicia: or

2 : a modern Gael, Highland Scot, Irishman, Welshman, Cornishman, or Breton, or a descendant of these peoples dispersed throughout the world through immigration.

Celtic culture then is the culture (music, language, legends, religion, sports, humour, dance or writings) of these people or their descendants.

Multiculturalism

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This category accepts sites dealing with the relationships between cultures or ethnic groups. If your site deals only with the issues of a single ethnic or cultural group, please submit it to Ethnicity, or one of its sub-categories.

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Multiculturalism is a pattern of social life in which diversity and tolerance of multiple ethnic groups are accommodated.

For the purpose of this category, it deals with the relationship between ethnic or cultural groups or their relationship with their adopted province, Nova Scotia.

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