ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Lgbt Community, Canadian Identity, Imagined Community
25/02/2016
SCL Lecture 5
National Identity
Reading: online article
New Brunswick coat of arms It has restored hope
Lecture Themes:
1. National identities are constructed and imagined
2. Natioal idetit is a atter of pratiig iagied ouit
Must be practiced all the time
Imagined community
3. Global relations have an effect on national identity
4. Language and nation
Ex. Canada + Hockey
Ex. Panama + Afro-Antillean Music
Canadian Identity:
• British in birth
• French/Quebec lived all across Canada, west of Ontario
• Regional versions western, Newfoundland, etc.
• Most people who lived had roots in Britain and Germany
• Multiculturalist
• Not Aeria
What are Canadians like? Polite
Geerall et setee is ore polite, opared to the Aerias
Defined by how we are different from the Americans
• Canada is multiculturalist but the US is about the melting pot
Not true
U.S. is totally multicultural now
BUT Much more contested in the US, many more people against it
On the other hand, Canadians also have a North American identity
Who is Canadian?
• Caadia as used i ordiar laguage = a atter of degree
• What is our atioalit?
Nationality is supposed to mean citizenship
Whe people are speakig iforall hat is our atioalit reall eas hat
is our ethi akgroud
The question is normally not about citizenship
Immigrant citizens Caadia ad ot, depedig o the otet
• Legal citizenship and practical citizenship are not necessarily the same thing
Legal voice heard in country, make changes as people, does the state take care of
them same as everyone else, does the public treat them the same as everyone else
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