CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Imagined Community, Canadian Studies, Canadian Identity

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What is our national identity? (what does it mean to be canadian ) What cultural symbols best cultivate this sense of. We learn out identity, it"s not inherited. Certain practices give us pleasure, we learn these desires. We want to learn with these symbols. We see these symbols all the time (hockey, sorry etc) Nation: the feeling of organic community by people, often based on a sense of common history, ethnicity, race, language, or culture. State: the institutions and agencies that administer and govern a particular population within a given geopolitical territory. Nationalism is the most obvious state promoted pleasure. Wants to create a collective identity that you feel apart of. Nation is a group of people who share the same illusions/ideals of themselves. Hallucination because we are a vast land with a small population, very spread out. The way we connect to each other has to be a way that"s mediated for us.

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