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Social media have become very popular. Yet, we lack sufficient standards and rules in order to guarantee a well functioning democracy. On Twitter, Facebook and Co. many debates take place, but often rules are violated. Manipulation and profit seem to be paramount. This book is an autobiographical contribution to the experiences with social media. The keywords "freedom" and "security" make clear that this is always a balancing act.

This book deals with métissage in New France and Canada in the period 1508 to 1886. Métissage is understood as a syncretistic process of cultural, social and political encounter and mixture of ethnic groups that resulted from mixed marriages and relationships. Those led to the rise of the Métis people in North America, which were distinguished as French-speaking Métis and English-speaking Halfbreeds. The process of mixture began in 1508, when first Indians were shipped to France with the intention to use them as multipliers of French culture on their return to the colony. In 1886, the Act of Savages legally distinguished between «Indians» and «Metis», thus marking the beginning of a mixed-blood identity in Canada that was differentiated from neighbouring Whites, Indians and Inuit. The theoretical approach of the history of concepts is employed in the longue durée to show the variance throughout four centuries.