CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Maple Leaf, Collective Memory
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9 Aug 2016
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Monday, May 2, 2016
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CANA1F91 Lecture #1
“The Imagined Community”
Objective:
- Discuss the meaning of the imagine community
- think about how it applies to Canada
Key Terms:
- Imagined Community
- Collective memory
- Symbols
- Myths
Benedict Anderson
- “is imagined b/c the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of its fellow
members, meet them, or even hear of them. Yet in the minds of each lives the image of their
communion”
- What binds us together? How do we become a nation/community?
We can do that by having similar interests, ideas, values and recognize similar meanings behind
symbols.
Diversity of Canada
-Regionalism
-French-english relation (Conquest and fear of assimilation)
- Aboriginals (marginalization and assimilation)
- Demographic diversity
Creating an imagine community
- Collective memory
-Benefits of collective memory
1. help to construct unity
2. create pride and patriotism
3. define who we are and who we are not
- Tom Axworthy
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