The Asian agricultural landscape, which accounts for approximately 12.6% of the world's agricultural land, is highly heterogeneous due to the multicultural cropping system.
In a systematic review, Anderson et al. [ 9] demonstrated that in multicultural healthcare systems the inability to communicate with healthcare providers creates barriers to access, undermines trust in the quality of medical care and decreases patient compliance (see also [ 10]).
The study supports the notion that educational preparation and relevant clinical experience is important in providing nursing students with the opportunity to develop self-efficacy in performing effective and efficient transcultural nursing in today's multicultural health care system.
Therefore, this paper is advocating a Multicultural health care system in Canada.
In an increasingly multicultural Europe, health systems, health services, and health professionals are under pressure to become " migrant-friendly" [ 4- 7].
In 1777, the Six Nations gave up on their vast system of multicultural diplomacy and, as Jennings puts it, "the great League council fire at Onondaga was 'covered.' "Two years later an American "patriot" force laid waste to the neat New York farming villages of the Iroquois, burning their crops to the ground; in 1783 many of them moved to a territory the British offered them in Canada.
It is concluded that by fostering students' critical awareness of intersections (for example, gender, life stage, migrant and racialized status), the growth and development of youth from diverse cultural backgrounds can be contextualized within existing support, or access barriers to, systems in multicultural societies.
Maarten Vink, for example, speaks of a 'myth' that the Netherlands was once a multicultural haven (based on a system of pillarization), as MC was 'never accepted or practiced as fully and suggested in more stereotypical depictions of Dutch integration politics' (Vink, 2007, p. 339).
The 19th century Sikh kingdom was a successful multicultural state with divergent legal systems that agreed on some basic principles.
Attempting to apply universal ethical principles to genomic research in a multicultural world with diverse healthcare systems and considerable variation in standards of healthcare presents yet another challenge.
