CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mount Allison University, Canada Day, Canadian Nationalism
29 Oct 2018
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Tutorials begin this week part of the attendance mark. Canadian studies undergraduate society looking for members / organizers. Has changed since it"s inception, evolved over time, carleton has one of the oldest programs but the oldest is from mount allison university. Why is canada so big: it was claimed / taken from those who were already here. European nations tend to be defined by the people languages / cultures that reside there. It was an anti-revolutionary stance / reaction against napoleonic expansions. The places that napoleon was spreading to didn"t have centralized governments and therefore were at risk of dying out, as france was centralized, had an army and was expanding. Ie// olympics, 9/11, royal weddings, the tragically hip"s last concert, Hitler / trump broadcasting to encourage unity, molson canadian commercials. Imagined community a way of thinking about modern nationalism (benedict. Anderson: definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign.
