ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Canada Day, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
23 Mar 2018
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The other can live outside or inside the borders of the nation-state. Immigration is another way in which others are produced. Immigrant others are often constructed in terms of racial/ethnic identities. Race and ethnicity are important features in national identity narratives of who belongs and who doesn"t. National identities are also created and reinforced through educational institutions: being canadian - multiculturalism. What are the words, images and sounds that are used to describe. Classic canadian national identity encapsulated in the benevolent. Since the late 1970s canadian national identity has been framed in terms of the policy and mythology of multiculturalism; canada is described as a cultural mosaic, distinct from the melting pot" of the usa. A pluralist national identity is a flexible strategy developed to manage diverse populations while maintaining the power of white middle class anglo-canadians. Multicultural nationalism is not only about erasure but also about the management of culture and difference.
