POL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: North American Free Trade Agreement, Cultural Rights, Ethnic Nationalism
22 Nov 2016
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Affects how we understand the world and one another and how we interact with both. Culture provides a common stock of knowledge about appropriate and inappropriate behaviour. Privacy, community, conversation, etiquette, how to maintain proper social distance. Political culture: values, assumptions, belief that condition political action. Allows us to address certain social problems. Serves as a filter or lens through which political actors view the world. Political discourse: language of how we view understand and criticize politics. Often political values, beliefs and attitudes are crystallized in various symbols. Symbols evoke thoughts and feelings and reflect long standing traditions. Charter of rights and freedoms, meech lake accord, nafta. Political images can invoke feelings of consensus and conflict. Often evoke different responses from different areas of the public : gay marriage, abortion, legalization of marijuana. For politicians, symbols are used in political advertisements not designed to tell the truth.
