EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Cultural Imperialism, Canadian Confederation, Canadian Literature
11 Apr 2016
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Cold war: the race to nuclear arms: vietnam war: north vietnam allied with soviet, and china; and south. Vietnam allied with usa; canada and vietnam wanted to distance itself from. American colonialism; there was a general fear of american cultural imperialism with the massey report as a counter measure: nationalism became anti-colonial and canada picked up on this sentiment to become anti-american and anti-uk. In 1960-70s nationalism was considered progressive and radical. Canlit courses started to be taught for the first time but many universities were extremely opposed to this. In quebec there was the start of the quiet revolution. In 1971 trudeau declared that canada will be a multicultural country with two main languages. From lament for a nation: (271: he is worried that other people aren"t more worried. Canada is becoming more consumerist like the usa: he complains that media now offers more choice (tv, music, literature) but its all mostly american products.
