CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mcjob, General Electric Genx, Primordialism
16 Dec 2017
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Objectives of this week: understanding the shift from first-wave to second-wave of canadian. Studies: understanding what a rhetoric-reality gap is and why this notion is so important, understanding generational differences in conceptions of canada (and society generally), as well as some mythologizing around perceived differences. Community of people that share common vision. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their members, meet them, or even hear of them. Focusing on the good things of the past. Ignoring problems that past may have had- (racism, plumbing, etc) Difference between cherished values, popular myths and public/political discourse vs. actual state of affairs (different between popular image and the truth) Rhetoric: i value the environment and a green world, im proud to love in a country where these things are important. Reality: canada has not had a particularly good environmental record for some years now, as mentioned by nimijean.
