Salsa dancing lit. review

After developing a bibliogrphy list of 20 books and articles that are not directly related to my research question, and an one-hour consultation appointment with the head librarian of the reference department at the 4th floor of Robarts library, I have finally accepted the fact that I am really doing a salsa-dancing social science research here. If the experienced reference librarian also hasn't got anything talking directly on my research question, what else can I rely on? Luker for sure, and maybe my skip reading skills that I have developed over the years.

2 months ago when I began to take the Research Method course, I have posted a sticky note on my fridge: "If you sit with your interest long enough, with enough kindness and patience, a research question will in fact emerge. Trust yourself and your work, and all will be well, eventually" (Luker, 2008, p.232). Now I have finally found my research question, and what next? Well, this time I write down this:"Once you have decided that yours is a case of Element A and Element B and Element C, you can answer the question, "What is this a case of?" and you can then go out and read books and articles by smart people that have nothing to do with your case per se, but are very illuminating about Elements A, B, and C in other situations, and better yet, about the interrelationship. Remember, the one thing that all social scientists are doing is looking for pattern recognition" (Luker, 2008, p.134).

After spending the entire Friday afternoon in the Urban Affairs library reading articles, I finally realized what Luker said that "if you specify the theoretically relevant elements and then go educate yourself about what otehr smart people have said about the arrangement of those elements in other contexts, you may well find yourself being surprised. If you can set aside your initial emotion of outrage or concern and specify the elements, bumping them up to a new level of generality, you may well change from whatever was our first, pre-research position"(Luker, 2008, p.138). My research question is why aren't the next generation of Chinese Torontonians using the Chinese Cultural Centre. My original perspective is that these second and greater generations of Chinese Canadians are lack of language skills to appreciate the Chinese historical heritage and civilization, but one academic paper dated back to the 1980s criticized the Canadian high school education system and that many high school teachers were not only lack of knowledge on Chinese culture or hsitorical heritage, but also held discrimination on Asian ethnic groups. My research subjects are Chinese Canadian next generations who are merely college or university students, who probably grow up with the said racist high school teachers. This has given me an insight to review the Canadian high school education system in Ontario as well. Luker's salsa-dancing theory is getting more and more practical now.