grant youth under a question.
             Certain categories of immigrant youth cannot successfully match their cultural and family background with modern Canadian society. At the same time they are lacking the opportunity of their parents to take social refuge in the ethnic community social and religious life. Their self-perception is about certain ethnic or cultural identity but culturally and linguistically they are already out of their communities. What seems to be taking place is emergence and self perpetuate existence of independent immigrant youth civilization enclaves.
             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.
             Virtual role models and electronic media predominantly define youth socializing now. For immigrant youth ethnic Internet and pop-culture became nearly the only standard they are casting themselves after. But whether transmitted from motherland or developed within the Western society virtual ethnic role models usually represent social abstractions. Moreover in most cases they serve ether marketing or ideological ends. Not surprising, these role models have hardly anything in common with the family members and culture of particular youngster. Parents do not match with these images. As the result young immigrants are experiencing self-identification conflict.
             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 assimil...