POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Prairies, Eastern Canada, Maritime Rights Movement
6 Dec 2016
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Term used to describe people whose cultural norms the state is structured around. Within multinational states, there often emerges a group that is so hegemonic that state"s appa(cid:396)atus is (cid:271)uilt a(cid:396)ou(cid:374)d the culture: e. g. Holland is a just a very big part of the dutch kingdom, but basically interchangeable with the netherlands: e. g. Britain is different than england, but still 85% of it so we usually interchange them. In canada, this canadians of british descent supplemented by immigration into canada (outside quebec) Initial face of canada was very british neither french canadians nor aboriginals (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)ted i(cid:374) (cid:862)state(cid:863) for example money was only in english, then two types of bills issued, then bilingual. Canadian national identity built from both top down and bottom up. Created series of economic and social networks throughout canadian state canadian. In 1867 no national identity in modern sense nor a state in modern sense.
