HIST 209 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Reasonable Accommodation, Arthur Meighen, Lower Canada
9 Apr 2014
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3 major changes (bumsted): liberalization of moral values. Easier divorce, more open to discussing sexuality. Reflected at level of state, trudeau"s statement that the state had no business in the bedrooms of the nation: changes to divorce laws (1968), criminal code (1969), removing, rise of youth counter culture and rebellion. Young middle class youth rejecting values and politics of middle class parents. Aided by increased number of universities being opened. Primarily ignited by opposition to vietnam war: prefect symbol of everything wrong with mainstream american society, anti-american sentiment, fueled by anti-war american professors, american draft dodgers contributed to canadian culture, founding and editing journals, organizations. In quebec, deadlier turn with formation of flq: compared quebecois to colonized peoples of africa, asia, exploited by colonizing american capitalists, radical youth were not as cut off from older generation as the. English: both generations in favour of independence, rene levesque not member of flq, but called english canadians, new energized collective minorities.
