GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Orkney, Canadian Identity, Burns Supper

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6 Apr 2016
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Poet of the world more statues than any other poet: 20 in scotland, 8 in australia, 9 in canada, 16 in the us only one in england. Robbie burns dinner: celebrated by millions of people around the world with a dinner, cultural globalization, order of dinner: Short speech to memory of burns (toast to robbie. Reply to the toast to the lassies (aka toast to the. Fierce loyalty to scotland and scottish culture. Some outsiders insist that there is no such thing as scotland or. What are the marks of cultural identity: humour, icons, events, food, costume, religion, wars won or lost. Stirling bridge, bannockburn, culloden, etc: distinctive differentiation from others. Cultural differentiation from neighbours works both ways. Scots don"t wish to be english (canadians don"t wish to be. Residents of the shetland and orkney isles do not wish to be called. Homogenization: bringing it all together: geography of nowhere (james howard kunstler, travelling through nowhere different .

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