Immigrant Community: Multicultural Mosaic

Portuguese Canadians Dept: The Toronto art director is inviting members of his community to submit their Proud to be Portuguese Canadian videos to a contest as part of a campaign to revitalize an established immigrant community that he says is invisible in Canada s multicultural mosaic, according to The Star. We are not all construction workers and house cleaners, he added. It is not like there is anything wrong with that, but that is not what our heritage is about and terry Costa wants Portuguese Canadians not to be afraid to say they are Portuguese and to make it known to the world they are proud of their heritage through YouTube. There has been this stigma for years and decades that we are poorly educated, this and that. This is like coming out of the closet in a Portuguese way, said Costa, who was born in Canada but raised in Pico, Portugal, before returning to his birthplace at age 15 for school. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.