CRM 3318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: British Indian, Culture Of The United Kingdom, Imagined Community

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3318
• Professor: Baljit Nagra

Document Summary

Are national cultures and identities actually unified? stuart hall. Imagined communities operate through discourses of race: that tend to homogenize and erase differences internal to the nation, and separate citizens from both internally and externally located racial others. Imagine community in canada: we all like hockey, we are all polite but there are problems between classes, and races, etc. Nation building through controlling the other has always been a part of canada"s political and social culture, and its victims have not been restricted to one racial, ethnic group, or religion: japanese journey to canada. Almost all immigrants that came to canada from india before the wwii were sikhs from. Came because: poor conditions in punjab, specifically recruited into indian british army. Sikhism is a minority in india and influenced by hinduism and islam, supposed to break away from caste issues.