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The fact that immigrant students, with the help of digital technologies, are living as transmigrants is important for teachers to understand. Teachers can no longer expect that their students will eventually fully integrate themselves into the Canadain lifestyle. As mentioned in the article, "[|Diaspora, Community and Communication: Internet Use in Transnational Haiti]", by Angel Adams Parham, although students may adapt and function well in their new home, they will continue to rely on technologies like the Internet in order to maintain social and cultural connections to their original countries. (200). Teachers must understand this in order to really know their students, given that these transnational ties may be major components of their identities. Teachers may want to take advantage of these multiple transnational linkages in order to celebrate and promote cultural diversity in their classroom. Understanding the lives of immigrants and ethnic is a central piece to the Manitoba Social Studies Curriculum. Investigating transnational ties to other countries, exploring the ways we communicate with others around the globe, and getting to know the experiences of immigrants would be a useful exercise in celebrating a multicultural classroom. =====